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BBC dominates FIFA World Cup Final viewing with 15.8 million peak audience

The FIFA World Cup Final, which saw Spain crowned world champions, attracted a peak audience of 15.8m million across BBC One and BBC iPlayer, giving the BBC 64% share of all TV viewing.

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Nearly 16 million tune in to see Spain beat Argentina in World Cup final on BBC

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BBC Sport confirms comprehensive Quarter-Final coverage across FIFA World Cup 2026

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Spain wins the World Cup by beating Argentina 1-0 with Ferran Torres’ goal in extra time

Spain is back atop the soccer world for a second time, after Ferran Torres’ first goal of this year’s World Cup — unquestionably the goal of his life — gave his country a 1-0 win over now-dethroned ch...

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Lionel Messi, Argentina and the challenge of moving on from a GOAT

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FIFA investigates Argentina players confronting Spain’s on-field World Cup celebrations

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Spain World Cup celebrations marred by scuffles with Argentina

Video replays showed several players involved in a scuffle, including Argentina defender Leandro Paredes, who appeared to shove Spain’s Eric Garcia by the throat.

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Spain are worthy World Cup winners. It’s a victory for method over madness

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Spain outlasts Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win second World Cup title

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BBC delivers amazing World Cup montage

After Spain came away with a 1-0 victory over Argentina to conclude the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Sunday, BBC Sport closed out its coverage with a World Cup montage that soccer fans loved. The montage featured many great sights and sounds from this year’s World Cup,

Daily Mail on MSN

BBC win the World Cup ratings war with ITV: Beeb boast a four-times bigger audience than rival

Daily Mail Sport understands the BBC's peak audience share advantage was 4 times greater than ITV, while its average audience share advantage was 4.06 times greater.

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The World Cup is bigger than ever - and BBC Sport has an app to match

The 2026 World Cup is here and bigger than ever as 48 nations compete for the biggest prize in football in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The BBC is home to the best coverage of the competition and we're going big too,

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BBC’s work-from-home World Cup a wasted opportunity

There was delight – and no little relief – at the BBC after the television ratings for the World Cup final came through.

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Epic England World Cup comeback win saw "BBC's biggest live TV audience of 2026"

It was a monumental night for more reasons than one.

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What could Burnham as PM mean for sport?

Andy Burnham is only into his second day as the UK's Prime Minister, but already people are wondering what this could mean for sport.

The New York Times

It’s not a ‘green box’. But the BBC’s World Cup studio has sparked a curious row

The BBC has opted to station its World Cup staff in Salford rather than at the tournament Matt Slater/The Athletic As national humiliations go, this was not the Suez Crisis but when BBC Sport announced it would be basing its World Cup coverage in Salford ...