Audience record for PSG-FC Barcelona on Canal+

According to L'Équipe, the Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona drew 2.25 million viewers on Canal+, a record for a league phase.

Le stade Camp Nou, à La Maternitat i Sant Ramon

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (new window)

The Champions League clash between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona set a television audience record. According to L'Équipe, 2.25 million viewers followed the match on Canal+, the best audience ever recorded for a league-phase match in the competition.

RMC Sport confirms the feat, citing a Parisian victory that marked the history of French television. Both media agree on the scale of this enthusiasm, without however specifying the score of the match.

Sources

  1. L’ÉquipeRecord d'audience pour un match de phase de ligue de Ligue des champions pour Canal+, avec 2,25 millions de téléspectateurs réunis devant PSG-FC Barcelone (new window)lequipe.fr
  2. RMC SportPSG-Barça: la victoire parisienne bat un record d'audience historique à la télévision (new window)rmcsport.bfmtv.com