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by amnesiac on September 19th, 2005
First of all, let me say that this is an absolute no brainer. (Except to all you grid iron fans in the US apparently)
From:
http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/worldcup/a/wcupnews.htm
we see that the total viewership for the 2002 World Cup was 28.8 billion. There were 64 games at the World Cup giving an average of 450million viewers per match.
The statistics from
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/newsreleases/2002/WorldCup_Final.htm
were not indicative of total global viewership, as it clearly states that the only countries included in the survey were:
Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States.
Taking into account that most of the largest football viewing markets in the world, such as Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, as well as the rest of Latin America and most of Africa and the Middle East, were excluded from this survey, the actual number of viewers of Wordl Cup matches would definitely greatly exceed the numbers stated in the survey.
Also, the statistics from:
http://www.forbes.com/business/people/2002/05/27/0527fifa.html
show the number of viewers for the 2001 NBA Playoffs and Finals to be 2.5 billion. The 2.5 Billion people as stated here watched a total of 71 games in that year's playoffs and finals, compared with 1 billion for a single match at the 1998 world cup.
The fact remains that the Football World Cup is viewed by a much larger audience than the SuperBowl.
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by Lucas_ on September 20th, 2005
Wow! There's something greater than America :)))
by Alatea on September 22nd, 2005
But it doesn't seem correct to sum viewers for a series as most would be repeat viewers. Not disputing Soccer's dominance.
by Glenn Blaylock on September 24th, 2005
You need to get your billions & millions straight! World Cup finals can run in the several hundreds of millions though, where the Super Bowl is just over a hundred million (not total viewership, but average "at one time" viewership). Super Bowl is an annual event though which is so different of course!
by guyinfrance on February 7th, 2011
Um, you can't have more viewers than people on the planet...there's only 6.9 billion people on the planet...so 28.8 billion...dont think so mate!
by Ike_M on February 8th, 2011
He's counting the cumulative viewers of all of the matches of the World Cup. In order to make that a fair comparison, we would have to count the total viewership for all of the playoff games as well as the Super Bowl itself.
However, as I wrote above, I have no doubt that the World Cup would still beat the Super Bowl. Soccer is much more popular on the international stage than American Football is. Let's face it, football's popularity is pretty much limit to America. No sport that is so limited in popularity is going to be able to compete with soccer.
by Glenn Blaylock on February 8th, 2011