Saturday’s United States-Ghana match on ABC – a 2-1 U.S. loss in extra time, which eliminated the Americans from the tournament – is the most-watched FIFA World Cup game among households and viewers. The soccer game, which aired for 2.5 hours, averaged a national 8.2 rating on ABC, which represents approximately 14,863,000 viewers. In addition to the millions who tuned into ABC, viewers could watch on ESPN and FloTV and the total number of people who watched this soccer game could increase to more than 19 million – and astronomical number for a country who, up until recently, wasn’t recognized as a Soccer Nation.

 

San Diego was the top market delivering a 15.4 rating for the U.S-Ghana game.

San Diego was the top market for all three previous U.S. matches – vs. England (11.5, ABC), vs. Slovenia (8.5, ESPN) and vs. Algeria (8.9, ESPN). 

Rounding out the top 10 for Saturday’s match were Washington, D.C. (13.8), San Francisco (13.3), Cincinnati (12.9), Las Vegas (11.7), Austin (11.4), Columbus, Ohio (10.6), Norfolk, Va. (10.6), Seattle-Tacoma (10.6) and West Palm Beach (10.5).

San Diego is the Soccer Capital of the U.S. and with more soccer fields than many other areas in the country, this area is well known as a hot bed of soccer talent.

For more information on San Diego, America's new Soccer Capital for watching World Cup soccer, please click U.S. – Algeria: San Diego’s TV Hat Trick, Third Time as Top Soccer Market in America and
San Diego: Top TV Market for Soccer