Up to 1.49 million people watched the round of sixteen
Yesterday's Swiss World Cup quarterfinal was watched by 1.49 million viewers on SRF Zwei, a new record for this World Cup.
The Swiss national team bid farewell to the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Tuesday evening with a 1:6 defeat against Portugal. Up to 1.49 million people from German-speaking Switzerland watched the round of 16 live on SRF zwei. This peak figure - shortly before the end of the first half at 2:0 for Portugal - corresponds to a market share of 69.0 percent (provisional data, target group 3+, German-speaking Switzerland, overnight).
New TV peak for the current World Cup
The entire match was watched by an average of 1,313,000 TV viewers, with a market share of 64.5 percent (preliminary data, target group 3+, German-speaking Switzerland, overnight). This meant that the Swiss Round of 16 on TV on SRF zwei achieved the highest audience average of the current World Cup so far. Interest was also high on SRF's online platforms: The livestream of the round of 16 match against Portugal achieved a total of 523,000 starts.
