Over one million Irish viewers tuned in to watch the Euro 2020 final on RTE last night - making it the highest rating programme on Irish TVs this year.
Last night's nail-biting conclusion to the UEFA EURO 2020 competition drew an average of 938,000 viewers on RTÉ2 as Italy edged-out England on penalties in the final.
The broadcaster reported that Sunday’s final peaked at 1.1 Million viewers at 22.52 as the game went to penalties.
The findings show that 56% of those watching television at the time were tuned-in to RTÉ2 with 279,000 streams delivered on RTÉ Player.
Across pre-match, live and post-analysis the final had a total 1-min reach of 1.6 million.
Group Head of Sport, RTÉ Declan McBennett said: “Summer tournaments are always special in their ability to unite the generations into a mass audience sharing a collective experience and EURO 2020 was no different.
“RTÉ Sport continues to bring the very best of live sport both domestically and internationally to our audience and we now look forward to similar moments that unify us all across the GAA Championship, the Olympics and the Paralympics.”
RTÉ Player reported a record-breaking UEFA Euro 2020 performance with over 2.6 million streams across the tournament, up 30% on Euro 2016.
The final between England and Italy was the most popular game online with almost 280,000 streams and breaking the RTÉ Player record for most concurrent devices streaming.
The clash between England and Italy had more than double the volume of streams than the most watched game of Euro 2016.
Despite the Republic of Ireland side not playing in the finals this time, it didn't stop Irish online audiences devouring 1.7 million hours of soccer in June.
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