Without doubt over 5 million, which started at 5:00, is beyond expectations pre tournament in fact I looks likely the 104 games will get close to 150 million. Unimaginable as I said pre tournament... Sadly the ratings will probably result in SBS lossing the rights next time

agree

Wish them luck and congratulations to anyone willing to invest in football

From a number of aspects will be interesting to see if the MLS can piggyback on the success of the world cup

Just hope a little of this trickles down to Australian Professional Football.

No idea how much Silver Lake take but with APL paying for the broadcast and callers, it leaves little for the clubs. On top of running the a-league clubs also need to run a women's side and have an academy. I think APL pay travel and accommodation expenses for teams travelling by plane...

Nine Entertainment is in advanced negotiations to retain one of the world’s biggest sports tournaments, the English Premier League, in a six-year deal that would be worth almost $US600 million ($860 million)...

Ask yourself why the WC rating successful receives almost zero coverage especially from the ABC...Sunday unbelievable especially considering the time the games were on. https://tvtonight.com.au/2026/07/sunday-12-july-2026.html

The WC ratings are off the charts especially when your consider the times they are played. Huge challenge is to convert a reasonable percentage of these folks to Australian Professional Football.

Do you have a link

From sbs https://www.sbs.com.au/aboutus/2026/07/08/well-over-half-of-australia-have-tuned-in-to-watch-the-fifa-world-cup-on-sbs/

Mate change your name to Captain Obvious....of course the A-L Women's does not pay for itself who doesn't know that... Surprise surprise we don't have a huge media deal... well blow me down here i was thinking we had a massive media deal... No idea what your trying to prove ....

Mate Netball gets SFA and the WAFL & NRLW suck off the men's competitions and are mostly there because of the Matilda's ... But the NRL with its 757 million dollar TV deal plus 5 million thu the gate plus sponsors is over a billion dollar for about 210 games which is almost 4.8 million per...

England v Mexico almost 3 million. On Saturday my guess over 4: million for England V Egypt

The thing that also stood out for me was the reach... Unbelievable figures, wonders aloud if 2030 will be so cheap

The current deal runs to the 28/29 season so three years away .... the hope id 10 and P+ improve their promotion

Remember the email. Never forget and even more so today with the new NRL media deal 750 million per year maybe growing to 800 million, and the AFL 650 million per year....they need to bury other sports... Football especially worries them, as does Basketball... Never forget the email...that...