Germany: 16.7 million viewers on average for the 16 games of "die Mannschaft" in 2016

The German national team drew 16,759,000 viewers on average for 16 of the 17 games played in 2016 (the ratings of the friendly match before Euro 2016, Germany - Slovakia, 1-3, on 29/05/2016, were not disclosed). In all, there were over 251 million cumulative viewers for these 16 games of "die Mannschaft" in 2016.

The largest TV audience in 2016 for the German national team was for the Euro 2016 semi-final between Germany - France (0-2), on Thursday, 07/07/2016, which drew 29.82 million viewers on average, (about 37% of the German population) on the German public broadcaster ZDF (kick-off at 21:00 CET), for an audience share of 80.6%. The six games of the German national team at Euro 2016 drew an average of 26.45 million viewers on the free-TV channels ARD and ZDF.

ARD registered 22.3 million viewers on average for four games, three of which were during Euro 2016. ZDF drew 17.9 million viewers on average for seven games, including three of Euro 2016. The free-TV channel RTL drew 9.13 million viewers on average for the four 2018 World Cup qualification matches.

Euro 2016: 574.6…