2016 TV audiences: good figures for football in general and Euro 2016 in particular in the Top 5

Football posted very strong TV audiences in 2016 in the countries of the European Top 5 leagues, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and UK. In France, the sport represented 23 of the 100 best TV audiences of 2016. In Spain, football programming was even the 39 best TV audiences of the year, and 47 of the top 50.

These results are due in particular to Euro 2016. Of which, in France, the private, free-TV channels M6 and TF1 recorded nine of the 10 best audiences of 2016. In Spain, Euro 2016 comprised 17 of the 50 best TV audiences of the year. In Germany, nine games of Euro 2016 were in the Top 20 of best TV audiences. In Italy, Rai totalled 71.92 million viewers for the broadcasts of five games of the Italian national team during Euro 2016, or an average of 14.38 million viewers on average per game. In the United Kingdom, the elimination of England in the Round of 16 by Iceland (1-2, in Nice, on Monday, 27/06/2016) was watched by 11 million viewers on the private, free-TV channel ITV.

In the countries of the five major European leagues, it is a game of each country's national team at…