🚨| 🔥💣 3.09 million americans watched arsenal lose a champions league final. and that number broke a record. imagine what happens when they win one 😤🌍🔴
Arsenal didn't just play a Champions League final on Saturday.
They moved the needle of global football forever.
PSG vs Arsenal averaged 3.09 million viewers on CBS making it the most-watched English-language club football broadcast in US television history. Viewership peaked at 3.93 million during the penalty shootout.
Let that sink in.
That's a 51% increase on last year's final between PSG and Inter Milan which previously held the record at 2.04 million viewers.
Arsenal walked into a Champions League final and added a million more American viewers to European football overnight. Not over a decade. Overnight.
In the UK Arsenal's first Champions League final in 20 years drew an average of 2.4 million viewers across TNT Sports and HBO Max, peaking at 4.6 million during the penalty shootout.
In France 9.1 million viewers combined. 6.2 million on free-to-air M6 alone, with a further 2.9 million watching across Canal+ and Canal+ Foot.
And the Arsenal vs Man City Premier League clash this season? The most-watched Premier League game in US history 2.6 million viewers.
🔸 Most-watched club football broadcast in US history.
🔸 Most-watched Premier League game in US history.
🔸 Overall Champions League viewership on CBS up 13% year-over-year matches averaging 1.71 million viewers, up 39% from the previous season.
🔸 Canal+ retaining UCL rights for the next four-year cycle from 2027 the broadcasters know exactly where the audience is heading.
🔸 World Cup on US soil this summer 13 Arsenal players in it every single week is Arsenal content for a new American audience.
Here's the uncomfortable truth for every other club in Europe 👇
Arsenal lost the final. On penalties. Against the defending champions.
And still broke every viewing record on both sides of the Atlantic.
CBS Sports described Arsenal as "the continent's outstanding defensive team" and "favoured more than most over the last nine months" the American market doesn't just see them as a European club anymore. They see them as the story of world football.
3.09 million Americans stayed up or woke up at 12pm ET on a Saturday to watch Arsenal in a Champions League final.
When Arsenal actually win one?
The number that follows will be unrepeatable. 🔴⚪🏆
From London to Tokyo, Lagos to New York. Fans from every single corner of the world descended on North London. Millions packing the streets. The biggest parade this country has ever seen! The atmosphere was absolutely electric! Arsenal are MASSIVE. Premier League Champions 🏆
Just moments after PSG made history and retained the Champions League, Marquinhos wasn’t leading the celebrations.
Instead, he headed straight over to Gabriel, whose missed penalty had just broken hearts, to put an arm around him and offer a few words of support.
At the biggest moment of his own career, his first thought was for someone else.
A real moment of class from him. 👏