France-Israel: 3.98 million viewers, lowest TV audience for the Blues since June 2019

Like the 2,000 spectators present at the Bozsic Arena (Budapest, Hungary) to witness France’s victory over Israel (1-4), the audiences carried out by TF1 for the League of Nations match were timid Thursday evening.

In the absence of Kylian Mbappé, Camavinga, Nkunku, Guendouzi and Barcola each managed to shake the Israeli nets in turn, but the game produced by Aurélien Tchouameni’s teammates was not so exciting as to arouse the French public.

Less good than the friendly matches before the Euro

The French’s previous meeting, against Belgium on Monday September 9 in the League of Nations, had an audience of 5.13 million viewers. An audience far from the more than 16 million people who watched the semi-final of the Blues against Spain at Euro 2024 (2-1 defeat).

The score of this Thursday evening’s match is below the friendly matches before the summer. In June, France-Luxembourg (3-0) attracted 5 million viewers and France-Canada (0-0), which was broadcast on a fifteen-minute delay, attracted 4.2 million people.

With 21.3% of the audience share, the meeting was however largely placed at the top of the evening, ahead of the broadcast of the film “For the Honor of a Son” on France 3, during which the interpretation of Stéphane Bern managed to bring together 2.18 million people. Next meeting for the Blues: in Belgium, Monday evening, at 8:45 p.m. on TF1.