The second semi-final of soccer's ongoing UEFA Women’s European Championships 2025 (WEURO25), a tense affair between Germany and Spain, secured high TV viewing numbers in both nations as the fervor around the competition continues.
Spain ran out 1-0 winners over Germany after extra time on Wednesday (July 23), and in Spain, viewership reflected the national team’s continued success, with 3.3 million viewers tuning in on public-service broadcaster RTVE’s La1 channel, marking an audience share across the country of 32.3%.
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This increased in extra time, where the high stakes and fine margins saw the TV audience rise to 4.3 million (a viewership share of 44.8%), reflecting the national interest in the team, which won the FIFA World Cup in 2023 in front of bumper viewership, remains high.
The fixture performed even better on relative terms in Germany, where an average audience of 14.2 million watched the fixtures on public-service network ZDF, equating to a nationwide viewership share of 57.6%.
Indeed, despite the team’s defeat, the match became the second most-watched women’s soccer fixture on German TV ever, falling just short of the 17.9 million that watched Germany’s defeat by England in the final of the 2022 edition of the same tournament.
Interest in this year's Women's Euros, hosted in neighboring Switzerland, has been high in Germany, even for games not involving the German national team, with England’s win in the other semi-final fixture attracting 7.09 million average viewers in the German market.
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With Spain advancing to face England in the final, it sets up a repeat of the pair’s Women’s World Cup 2023 final matchup, which was a major draw, despite the adverse time zone conditions (the game took place in Sydney, Australia, which has a time difference of eight hours to Spain and nine to the UK).
That the pair’s rematch in the WEURO25 final takes place in prime time in Europe means broadcasters on the continent may expect an even greater TV performance than that World Cup final.
The quarter finals of WEURO25 also performed well in Germany and Spain, as well as in other markets such as France.
Spain are the reigning world champions after claiming victory in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the continued interest in the side’s successful streak bodes well for RTVE.
It also bodes well for Spain as a whole, with the country preparing a joint bid alongside Portugal and Morocco to host the 2035 Women’s World Cup.
