How the world really watched this tournament: 12.79B match views across 198 markets, blending legal broadcasts and piracy into one global TV viewership picture. The chart breaks down average audiences and peak games round by round, showing how attention climbs from early group matches to the knockout stages and the Final.
Data & tools: Global Viewership - round by round audiences summed across the tournament to give cumulative match views. Each figure is Eyeballr's modelled estimate of total match views, legal broadcast plus modelled piracy, including out-of-home viewing, not panel-measured or official broadcaster data.
Built with: custom SVG/JavaScript & data prepared in Python.