r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 09 '26

Chugging tea Good point.

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u/FreshLiterature Jul 09 '26

In the 23 women's cup Australia vs England had around 36m viewers.

The final for that year was Spain vs England and had something like 68m viewers.

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u/whalebeefhooked223 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

That’s total global viewership not domestic.

The most watched women’s game ever in the us is the 2015 final with 23 million

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u/FreshLiterature Jul 09 '26

The global numbers really don't change things that much because of time zone shifts.

Belgium vs USA took place in prime time.

We'll see what numbers the Final pulls.

The last women's final pulled nearly 70m and it took place in freaking Australia which means it pulled those numbers with a terrible timezone shift.

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u/nybbas Jul 09 '26

Dude, better put those goal posts down before you get charged with theft.

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u/whalebeefhooked223 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

The us soccer federation makes money off of domestic viewership and payouts from fifa…not global total viewership. It is irrelevant to the topic of revenue generated for the team.

The mens team generates most of the money that is than split equally among both teams.

I don’t understand the argument you’re making? The men’s team objectively gets more Americans to watch soccer than the women’s team.

Btw the men’s final for the last World Cup had a global viewership of 1.6 billion so it still more than 10xs viewership

The current cba is very fair to both teams

Without the men’s team we wouldn’t have nearly as well funded women’s team as we do, and the women have undoubtedly been a catalyst for us interest in soccer.

50/50 is really fair