The Latest Sports Viewership Figures Across TV and Streaming for Baseball, Golf, Tennis, Car Racing, Hockey and Soccer

Here’s a list of TV and streaming viewership stats for recent sports events and seasons across baseball, golf, tennis, car racing, hockey, soccer and other sporting events:

⚾ The MLB Home Run Derby averaged 5.73M viewers on ESPN, a 5% increase over last year (2024 game competed with the Republican National Convention. The MLB All-Star Game averaged 7.2M viewers on FOX, down 3.5% from 2024.

⚾ FOX’s Baseball Night in America game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees averaged 3.1M viewers, the largest game so far this season, and up 61% from last year, but down from the high of 3.2M in 2018.

⚾ Through the first 11 games of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, viewership averaged 1.7M viewers, up 12% from last year.

⚾ The 2025 NCAA Women’s College World Series (baseball) averaged 2.2M viewers across ESPN/ESPNU, up 11% over last year.

🏎️ The Indianapolis 500 averaged 7.05M viewers on FOX, up 40% from the 2024 race.

🏎️ The current Formula 1 season on ESPN networks has attracted an average of 1.3M viewers, up 17% from the 2024 full-season average. The Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix on ABC averaged 2.3M viewers for the race-only portion of the telecast, the largest live U.S. television audience ever for the event.

🏎️ Prime Video’s inaugural season of the NASCAR Cup Series averaged 2.16M viewers across five events.

⚽ The 2024/2025 season of the Premier League viewership across all NBCUniversal platforms in English and Spanish averaged 510,000 viewers per match window, down 6.5% from the previous year.

⚽ Over 13M viewers tuned in to Prime Video’s debut season of the UEFA Champions League in the UK and Ireland across the 2024–25 season. Amazon did not break out viewer stats for a single game, and it should be noted that Amazon UK does not use Nielsen but rather its first-party data.

🏈 The first six weeks of the 2025 UFL season averaged 612,000 viewers per game across FOX, ABC, ESPN, and FS1, down 25% from last year.

🏈 The 2025 NFL draft averaged 7.5M viewers across all networks and digital channels for the three days, up 27% from last year.

🎾 The 2025 Wimbledon tournament averaged 721,000 total viewers across ABC/ESPN/ESPN2, up 6% from last year. ESPN did not break out viewership for ESPN+.

🏀 The 2025 NBA Finals averaged 10.2M viewers, down 46% from the all-time high of 19M viewers in 2005.

⛳ Across the four rounds of the 2025 U.S. Open (golf) on NBC and USA Network, viewership averaged 2.9M, a slight decrease from 3.1M last year.

🏒 The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Finals on TNT and TruTV, averaged 2.5M viewers, down 40% from last year and the lowest rating since 2021.

🏇 The 25th presentation of the Kentucky Derby on NBC and Peacock averaged 17.7M viewers, up 6% from last year.

All statistics are from press releases from the respective broadcasters and streaming platforms.