{"id":822271,"date":"2026-07-24T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822271\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:00:13","slug":"numeris-77-of-canada-saw-fifa-mens-world-cup-average-viewer-watched-15-hours-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822271\/","title":{"rendered":"Numeris: 77% of Canada saw FIFA men\u2019s World Cup; average viewer watched 15 hours | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784865613_619_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Jonathan David (10) and Morocco&#8217;s Neil El Aynaoui (24) battle for the ball during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Canada and Morocco in Houston, Saturday, July 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ashley Landis)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 23, 2026 | 1:35 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 FIFA men\u2019s World Cup was the most-watched edition of the international soccer tournament in Canadian history, according to an audience measurement organization.<\/p>\n<p>Numeris says that nearly 31.5 million people \u2014 or 77 per cent of Canada \u2014 watched the tournament at some point this summer, up from 71 per cent in 2018 and 68 per cent in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The number of hours watched was also up over the previous two tournaments in Russia and Qatar, with the average viewer taking in 15 hours of matches on Bell Media\u2019s TSN, RDS, CTV, Noovo and Crave.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s men\u2019s national team was eliminated from the tournament with a 3-0 loss to Morocco on July 4 in the Round of 16. The match averaged 5.4 million viewers and reached 11.7 million Canadians, making it the most-watched Canada men\u2019s soccer match on record and the biggest non-final World Cup broadcast in Canadian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Jonathan David (10) and Morocco&#8217;s Neil El Aynaoui (24) battle for the ball during the World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-822271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}