The Portugal national team’s match with Morocco, which culminated on Saturday in the team’s elimination from the corners of the 2022 World Cup, which takes place in Qatar, was the one that “recorded the highest crowd to date,” according to Universal McCann .
According to the media agency of the Mediabrands group, the match that dictated the elimination of the Portuguese team from the 2022 World Cup, where Portugal lost 0-1 to Morocco, broadcast by SIC on Saturday “has been watched by a total of 4.5 million people, with a average audience of 3.1 million and a ‘share’ of 70.9%”.
The broadcast of the game on Sport TV registered “a total of 212 thousand viewers, with an average audience of 148 thousand and 3.4% of the ‘share’, making a total of 5.7 million viewers, an average of 3, 9 million viewers and 71.8% of the ‘share’, in accumulated terms”.
According to Universal McCann, “it was the game in Portugal that attracted the most audience to date”.
SIC’s broadcast of this game “had a major impact on the channel as it recorded a ‘share’ of 25.9%, recording its highest ‘share’ of the total day of the year”.
The Portuguese national team’s match “had, compared to the quarter-finals of Euro 2016, the last time Portugal went to this stage of the competition, a lower average audience, yet a higher ‘share'”.
In a more detailed analysis of the minute-by-minute match, and of all Portugal’s matches in this World Cup, “the Portugal x Morocco match was the most consistent and the one with the smallest crowd difference between the first and second half”, and “the peak of the crowd was close to the final whistle”.
Source: DN
