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U.S. Men's Soccer Sets All-Time U.S. Broadcast Record With 33.53 Million Combined Viewers Against Bosnia and Herzegovina

7/3/2026

men's national team victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina at the World Cup drew a combined audience of 33.53 million viewers across Fox and Telemundo, the largest ever recorded for a soccer match in the United States.

Preliminary Nielsen data show the Fox English-language broadcast alone averaged 24.43 million — a record for any English-language soccer broadcast in U.S.

history — clearing the 22.32 million that the 2015 Women's World Cup final between the U.S. and Japan had held, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The result extends a streak of broken viewership benchmarks that has run throughout the tournament.