Bundesliga: 4.12 million subscribers on Sky Deutschland for 8 of the 9 games of Matchday 1

Eight of the nine games of Matchday 1 of the 2017-18 Bundesliga, played on 19 and 20/08/2017, drew a total of 4.12 million subscribers on average on the German pay-TV Sky Bundesliga channels, according to the German institutes of audience measurement AGF and GfK.

Borussia Mönchengladbach - 1.FC Köln (1-0) drew the best pay-TV audience of Matchday 1, with 1,030,000 subscribers on average on Sky Bundesliga HD 1 on Sunday 20/08/2017 at 18:00 CET.

The lowest TV audience was for 1.FSV Mainz - Hannover 96 (1-0), which drew 88,889 subscribers on Sky Bundesliga HD 6 and the multiplex on Saturday 19/08/2017 at 15:30.

FC Bayern Munich - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3-1), the opening match of the 2017-18 Bundesliga season, drew 7.94 million viewers on average in Germany on the public channel ZDF on Friday 18/08/2017 (kick-off at 20.30 CET). Audience share: 29.3%. The opening match of the 2017-18 season of the Bundesliga was also broadcast on the pay-TV channel Eurosport 2 HD Xtra, which did not communicate its audience.

• Matchday 2 of the 2017-18 Bundesliga is scheduled from 25 to 27/08/2017.