{"id":415822,"date":"2026-06-10T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=415822"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:18:54","slug":"womens-champions-league-hits-new-audience-benchmark-says-uefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/womens-champions-league-hits-new-audience-benchmark-says-uefa\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Champions League hits new audience benchmark, says UEFA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 10 : The audience for the Women\u2019s Champions League surged in the 2025\/26 season, with viewership more than doubling and expected to reach at least 44.5 million, European soccer\u2019s governing body UEFA said in a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 39.7 million viewers tuned in across the competition before the final, while matches were broadcast in 207 territories, with 30 free-to-air partners showing the final, making it the most widely available title match to date, the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media engagement also climbed sharply, with 947 million video views (+50 per cent year-on-year), 1.49 billion impressions (+44 per cent) and 52 million engagements (+16 per cent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UEFA said nearly half of all matches (49 per cent) were decided by a single goal or drawn, while 33 per cent featured comebacks, highlighting increased competitive balance in the revamped format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom a sporting perspective, the level has been outstanding and from a viewership perspective the competition has set a new benchmark for the women\u2019s club game,\u201d Nadine Kessler, UEFA\u2019s Women\u2019s Football Director, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd of course, the final itself, another sold-out occasion in a historic women\u2019s football nation like Norway, delivered everything we hoped for and more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom a sporting perspective, the level has been outstanding and from a viewership perspective the competition has set a new benchmark for the women\u2019s club game,\u201d Nadine Kessler, UEFA\u2019s Women\u2019s Football Director, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd of course, the final itself, another sold-out occasion in a historic women\u2019s football nation like Norway, delivered everything we hoped for and more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10 : The audience for the Women\u2019s Champions League surged in the 2025\/26 season, with viewership more than doubling and expected to reach at least 44.5 million, European soccer\u2019s governing body UEFA said in a report. More than 39.7 million viewers tuned in across the competition before the final, while matches were broadcast in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415823,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415822\/revisions\/415823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}