Euro 2024: 11.5 million viewers for the first match of the Blues against Austria

Les Bleus ont attiré du monde devant l'écran. XinHua – Pan Yulong

More than 11 million viewers watched the debut of the France team at Euro-2024 against Austria (1-0) on TF1 on Monday evening, according to published figures Tuesday by Médiamétrie.

On average, 11.25 million viewers followed the match, representing an audience share of 47.6%, according to these figures, far ahead of other channels. This is the best audience recorded on French television since the start of the year. During the previous Euro football tournament, in 2021, the first match of the France team, against Germany, attracted 15.1 million viewers in front of M6.

Opposite, France 2 only gathered an average of 2.4 million spectators on Monday evening in front of the Candice Lenoir soap opera. The Blues' next match, against the Netherlands, will be played on Friday at 9 p.m. in Leipzig (Germany), and broadcast live on M6 and beIN SPORTS.

The historic audience record in France dates back to the World Cup final won by Argentina against the Blues in December 2022, which gathered 24.08 million viewers viewers.