Matildas final draws biggest ratings for Ten since 2023
Sam Kerr didn't manage to get one in the net, but the Matildas won the ratings (Ten)
The final of the Women’s Asian Cup may have seen the Matildas go down 1-0 to Japan, but it was an unqualified victory for Ten, which drew its biggest TV audiences since the Melbourne Cup in 2023.
The match reached 2.66m viewers on Saturday night, with average audiences of 1.36m throughout.
It drew 233,000 streaming viewers, which is Ten’s highest-ever overnight streaming audience, and dominated viewership for its timeslot, with a 55.8% commercial share of audience, 65.8% in the 25 to 54s, and a massive 77.2% in 16 to 39s.