The World Cup farewell match against Costa Rica is the most watched in Germany
ARD said that the German national team's early exit from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar was the highest viewership in the tournament inside the country so far, as it was watched by 17.45 million people in the last match against Costa Rica yesterday.
(ARD) added that this represents 53.7 percent of the participation share, and despite the victory of the German team 4/2, the team left the tournament with Japan and Spain qualifying for the round of sixteen after Japan won 2/1.
Despite this, the men's team was unable to break the record recorded this year in the name of the women's team, when 17.89 million people watched the team's defeat against England 1/2 in the final of European nations (Euro 2022).
The match against Costa Rica attracted more people than the Spain match, which ended in a 1/1 draw (17.05 million). However, these rates are much lower than the World Cup in Russia in 2018, when the "ARD" and "ZDF" channel reached an average viewership. It reached 25 million viewers for each of the three matches in the tournament.
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