After a 2-1 win over France, Germany is in the final of the European Championship. The semi-finals achieved top ratings with the TV audience.
The live broadcast of the DFB women’s 2-1 victory over France in the European Football Championship set a record audience. An average of 12.187 million people watched the entry into the EM final on ZDF on Wednesday evening and accounted for a market share of 47.2 percent. This means that almost half of all television viewers in the evening watched football.
According to AGF video research, the transmission was the most successful TV show of the day. It achieved the highest reach of a women’s European Championship game on German television to date. The top value so far was the live broadcast of the 2-0 victory of the DFB women against Austria with 9.5 million (market share 38.2 percent). The highest value of the previous European Championship was the game against Russia at 7.06 million.
But the game of the DFB women was not only an event of particular relevance on TV. For the first time in history, women’s football made it as Top topic on the front page of the specialist magazine “Kicker”. The football magazine is published every Thursday and Monday.