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by Giorules on September 17th, 2005

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Which televised sporting event has more viewers, the World Cup Final or the Super Bowl?

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  • by RedJohn on September 18th, 2005

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    Not even close - the World Cup. The Super Bowl draws primarily from the US, with a TV audience of 50 to 100 million. The World Cup draws from the entire globe and an audience in the hundreds of millions. Thinking the Super Bowl is the most widely viewed sporting event is a wonderful example of national chauvinism.

    Footnote: we checked the FIFA World Cup site and they report that the viewership for the 2002 World Cup exceeded 1 billion.

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    • I loves my futbol

      go_to_hellas

      by go_to_hellas on September 18th, 2005

    • Exactly. That's why it's called the world game. C'mon Glory! C'mon Glory!

      Crumb Eye

      by Crumb Eye on September 19th, 2005

    • That's interesting, but regarding 1 of the comments, how come it's called the World Series? Arrogant Americans?

      MyKinKStar

      by MyKinKStar on April 18th, 2006

    • The World Cup definitely has at least 1 billion viewers because the WHOLE world watches it, not just one country.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on July 10th, 2006

    • It is most likely true that the World Cup draws more viewers. But it is certainly true that FIFA has been guilty of exaggerating viewership (they have admitted it as of late) and 1 billion people did not watch the 2002 final.

      tomilvento

      by tomilvento on June 28th, 2010

    • The Super Bowl is the most watched ANNUAL sporting event. Of course the World Cup has more viewers. As tomilvento said though, no single world cup game has ever had anywhere close to 1 billion viewers (FIFA has claimed crazy numbers like that before with no scientific accounting). Average viewers (during the duration of the program) is a usual metric and very accurate for the Super Bowl. The 2010 Super Bowl had 106 million average viewers where the 2006 World Cup final had 260 million. The figure that is more like 500-800 million is total viewers who watched sometim during the the final game for FIFA and 200+ million for the recent Super Bowls. Of course, as I mentioned at the beginning, the Super Bowl is played ever year where as the FIFA World Cup is only once every 4 years.

      guyinfrance

      by guyinfrance on February 7th, 2011

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