# World Cup Final Scores Nearly 63M Across Fox & Telemundo As Tournament Breaks Viewing Records

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/world-cup-final-scores-nearly-63m-across-fox-telemundo-as-tournament-breaks-viewing-records/
- Published: 2026-07-21T23:34:45+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-22T00:05:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/07/world-cup-final-scores-ratings-fox-telemundo-1236999839/
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- World Cup final drew 62.8M US viewers across Fox and Telemundo combined
- Spain beat Argentina in extra time; Fox set all-time soccer ratings record
- Telemundo also posted its best-ever Spanish-language World Cup viewership

## Summary

The World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina drew a combined US audience of 62.8 million viewers across Fox and Telemundo, setting new ratings records for both broadcasters. Spain's extra-time win, sealed by a goal from Ferran Torres, capped a tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada that proved a major commercial success for its American broadcast partners, with Fox recording the most-watched soccer telecast and World Cup final in US television history.

Fox averaged 38.9 million viewers for the final, peaking at 51.7 million between 5:45pm and 6pm ET as Torres scored the winner, while an average of 42.5 million watched the full 120-minute match. This far exceeded the 12.8 million who watched the 2022 final, though that game aired earlier in the day from Qatar. NBCUniversal's Spanish-language network Telemundo added a further 23.9 million viewers across linear television and Peacock, making it the most-watched World Cup in Spanish-language broadcast history, with a tournament average of 6.3 million viewers per game, up from 2.6 million in 2022.

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