World Cup Final Draws Record 24.4 Mil. U.S. Viewers

As World Cup finals go, Sunday’s Spain-Netherlands match may not exactly burn bright in the memory, unless you like a little Kung Fu thrown in with your football. But as Nielsen notes, the July 11 broadcast goes down in history as the most-watched soccer match in U.S. TV history.

The stateside audience for the World Cup final in South Africa drew 24.4 million viewers to ABC and Univision, topping the previous record set two weeks earlier.

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