The Most Watched Sporting Events In History

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Massive events like the Super Bowl have the power to paralyze the entire world. Millions of people stop their lives for a few hours to enjoy the live broadcasts of this type of great sporting events.

The past Super Bowl LIV starring the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers certainly made a mark as one of the most viewed in NFL history, as more than 102 million people came online to watch the great game, which also had Shakira and Jennifer López as protagonists of the awaited Halftime Show.

According to the audience reports shared by the NFL, the 2020 edition of the great game managed to be placed in the tenth position of the most watched in history, not far from Super Bowl XLIX (2015), which tops the list after reaching a audience of 114 million people watching the event live.

Curiously, despite the media power that the Super Bowl has today, the first place in the list of the most watched live events on television in the United States continues to be for a moment that broke the history of humanity in two: the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Approximately 150 million people tuned in to the broadcast that showed astronaut Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to step on the satellite that accompanies Earth through the solar system..

The Super Bowl has become the most watched sports event in the country, but compared to others worldwide, does it continue to be among the sports shows that tops the list of the most watched? The answer is no. The Super Bowl is still a long way from competing with audiences that manage to capture events such as the FIFA World Cup or the Olympics.

France champion of the 2018 World Cup.

The top 5 of the most watched sporting events in history is opened by the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which reached an audience of 1 billion people. In fourth place is the 2015 Cricket World Cup with 2,200 million people. Then in the third box is the 2018 Tour de France with also 2.2 billion viewers.

Tour de France 2018.

Of course, football could not be left out of this list and appears in the second position of the most watched sporting events in history. The 2018 FIFA World Cup managed to capture an audience of 3.6 billion people. Box number one on the list belongs to the 2008 Olympic Games, which left a historical record of 4.7 billion people tuned in. In its opening alone, the Beijing Olympic jousts had an audience of around 1 billion people.