[Trending News] The Spanish women's team suffers the coincidence with the Cup, but the downward trend goes further | Relief

Wednesday was a very football day in Spainwith two games that were played almost at the same time. While the Spanish women's team played the first game in its history in Wembley against England, corresponding to the Nations League, Real Madrid and Real Sociedad faced in the first leg of Copa del Rey semifinals.

Given the coincidence, RTVE decided that the first one was issued by LA2 and the second, by LA1. The Cup match congregated almost 3.5 million people in front of the TVequivalent to 24.8% of share. The duel between Spanish and English stayed at 491,000 spectators and 3.5% screen share.

Beyond the data, it is convenient to put some light in the analysis. At the same time as the Wembley game the Antena 3 nightly informative was broadcast, one of the most watched programs of Spanish television. And the second part coincided with The island of temptationsin Telecinco. In addition, as a general rule, A male football match always has more audience than a femaleeither at clubs or selections, and that the Montse Tomé selection has added thousands and thousands of followers since its world title.

Without going any further, a year ago he played the final of the female nations against France and the audience multiplied. That day, The national team had a 19.1% share and 1,918,000 viewers In 1. a few days before, the semifinal to the Netherlands had also exceeded 1.5 million viewers, on that occasion with a share of 12.1%.

At the same time as the match against England, the 2 usually issues the contest of 'Figures and Letters'recovered for the grill in early 2024. Since then it has established itself as one of the best grid bets.

All contest programs issued this month exceed the meeting to meet yesterday the Spanish women's team in Wembley. The average of the aforementioned space is 720,000 spectators and 5.5%. In both cases, women's football and Figures and letterswith data above the average of the chain, both in general (2.8% in January) and in the Prime Time strip (3%).

Figures and letters He has also resisted better football competition. On Tuesday, the 1 also issued the meeting between Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, and Figures and letters He had 122,000 spectators and seven tenths of Share more than England-Spain. That can indicate a overlap of audiences and that Contest and football do not share public as the women's team and other male competition matches do.

A downward trend

In addition to what penalizes that the games are broadcast in the second chain, Hearing data shows a downward trend of the National Team matches in the last years, with the exception of the Olympic Games in Paris. The game with less audience in the tournament had 1.2 million viewers and 16.5% screen share.

However, no party has since reached 10% of share. Three of the last four games (friendlies) of 2024 did not reach 650,000 spectators, while the first two of 2025 (officers and issued by 2) They have had the worst audiences in a long time. Before Belgium, last Friday, they saw the game on television 416,000 people (4.9% Share), the worst data after the World Cup.

Even so, the last They are still much higher audiences than registered by the selection matches before the Sydney titlewhen his matches were broadcast by Teedeporte. In April 2023, the friendlies against Norway and China were around 100,000 spectators and 1.5% of share.