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Chelsea’s 5-1 triumph complete Liverpool was nan astir watched Women’s Super League crippled of each clip pinch 1.1 cardinal group tuning into BBC 1 connected Saturday.
Lauren James scored a superb hat-trick while Aggie Beever-Jones and Sjoeke Nusken were besides connected nan scoresheet for nan Blues astatine Stamford Bridge.
It is nan first clip a WSL lucifer has passed nan 1 cardinal people for viewing figures while nan crippled besides recorded nan highest ever mean assemblage of 765,000.
Sky Sports besides saw their highest ever viewership for a WSL crippled pinch a highest of 589,000 watching Sunday’s Manchester derby astatine Old Trafford, pinch nan mean viewership of 485,000 besides a record.
Manchester City came retired connected apical pinch goals from Jill Roord, Lauren Hemp and Khadija Shaw cancelling retired Katie Zelem’s penalty.
Over a cardinal group watched nan BBC's sum of Chelsea's 5-1 triumph complete Liverpool
The figures show a dependable maturation successful viewership for nan home game, pinch world fixtures having already garnered large audiences.
Twelve cardinal group watched England suffer retired to Spain successful this summer’s World Cup last connected BBC1, which made it second-most viewed arena of 2023 aft nan Coronation of King Charles III.
The broadcaster besides registered 25.7million watercourse requests crossed BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online. A further 2.6million group watched nan last connected rival broadcaster ITV.
The Euro 2022 final, which saw England hit Germany successful extra-time, was besides watched by 17.4million connected BBC1.
