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Premier League viewing figures down 10%

I have the prem games on out of habit, but it's usually in the background.

I do tend to concentrate on the championship games more.
 

Useful_Idiot said:
That's a good point, just how many people actually watch Bournemouth v Brentford? They are tiny clubs support wise and I just can't see them having the same pull as us or Leeds.
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Exactly mate
They’ll have the Leeds v Man Utd fixture home and away
Sunderland v the mags
It’s improved the ‘product’ straight away from an interest point of view
Personally as much as live watching any football game certain teams and games I happily miss
 
Haven’t watched football on tv in whatever format for about 15 years. In those days games were built up as title, relegation or derby games. Derby games last season were unequal in terms of league positions Arsenal/Tottenham, Liverpool/Everton, Man Utd/Man City and there is a London derby every week. As previously mentioned title and relegation were non contests.

I don’t think it helps that the fees are telephone numbers, most of the players come from somewhere else and local players can’t get in the team. The tourist fans who prop up attendances won’t be watching on sky they will be back home fuelling their local stream.
 
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It’s almost as if it might be getting boring seeing the same teams at the top all of the time and the newly promoted clubs struggling to compete.
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Not Sky high prices if you pardon the pun
Betty Swollocks said:
10% uptake in dodgy fire sticks. The bloke who heads up the task force trying to stop it all was on radio 5 on Sunday saying they never prosecute the end user it’s the people selling subscriptions that they target. Not sure that’s the right thing for him to be saying if he wants to stop the illegal streams.
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They’ve always said there going after the providers more than those who watch them on the Firestick
 
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Good Teeth Keith said:
To be fair, it’s far more competitive nowadays.

The days of the “big 4” were far worse where it was literally just seeing if Tottenham could break in but every year was Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal in the Champions League.
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It is one way but in another it clearly isn’t.

It’s soo unfair and ridiculously difficult for newly promoted to compete
 
Neutrals don't want to watch two defensively minded teams who don't really want the ball. They also don't want to watch keep ball vs park the bus. It's dull.
 
Whilst I’d love to think this was the beginning of the end of football in its current structure, it’s far, far more likely to be due to fans streaming via “alternative” methods.
Whilst I’d love to think this was the beginning of the end of football in its current structure, it’s far, far more likely to be due to fans streaming via “alternative” methods.
 
SuperGerryHarrison said:
Whilst I’d love to think this was the beginning of the end of football in its current structure, it’s far, far more likely to be due to fans streaming via “alternative” methods.
Whilst I’d love to think this was the beginning of the end of football in its current structure, it’s far, far more likely to be due to fans streaming via “alternative” methods.
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So good you posted it twice 😜
 
leecoo said:
The style of football is boring

Even though liverpool won the league even their style isnt as exciting to watch as it was under Klopp

Premier league is meant to be fast and furious in comparison to other european leagues, but it isnt anymore, a lot of Guardiola disciples in management now trying to copy his style
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They scored 86 goals.

In recent seasons, amount of goals have gone up.

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If anything, you’d to argue more goals = more boring
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
I keep seeing people say that demand for PL footy is massive compared to when we were last there, but everyone I know in person and on here says they watch it less and less.
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You need to look outside your bubble and even the UK's bubble as the Premier League is a global brand.

Useful_Idiot said:
The demand is coming from overseas
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Chewit said:
It’s the foreign markets where the money is isn’t it?
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It's clear some don't know just don't realise how big the Premier League is globally as it's not all about the UK viewers. There's more money coming in from global tv rights than the domestic rights as this changed in the last deal 2022-25 and it's grown even more in the latest deal as global growth continues.

It may be shit to some people in the UK but not to those abroad. It's huge and social media shows that and part of the reason why it's been able to grow as people can now interact globally. There's millions of viewers globally and they will be seeing all the sponsors/ads etc and some of those will be spending money generating money for the club they 'follow'. The good thing is that we'll be getting new armchair fans next season so this will mean a slight increase in commercial revenue and all the other stuff that comes with being in the Premier League.

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Domestic and international popularity

Stadiums were a record-equalling 98.8 per cent full at Premier League matches in 2024/25, matching the high set in 2023/24.

Some 33.9m in the UK have watched live matches and the BBC’s Match of the Day highlights, equivalent to 55 per cent of the total UK TV audience.

The Premier League has become one of the UK’s biggest and most popular global exports. It is broadcast to 189 countries (out of 193 UN member states), with 900m homes across the world able to watch Premier League football.

Some 1.87bn people follow the Premier League worldwide, interacting at least weekly through the media. Thirty-four per cent of Premier League followers have become interested in the past four years.

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Some say it's not competitive and this season it hasn't been as competitive as most. Though out of the football leagues in the world it's probably still got the most competition going on within it from top to bottom most seasons and has the biggest collection of top players in it. There's a 2nd link below that mentions the PL will be bringing production in-house so that means they can offer Netflix type subscription, though not in the UK and they may test the waters first.

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The global reach of the Premier League continues to grow, with UEFA reporting a 23% increase in international broadcasting deals starting in the 2025/26 season. However, domestically, the market remains flat and below its peak from the 2017/18 season. The League also maintains the most equitable revenue distribution model among Europe’s top leagues.

Domestic Market

Over the past six seasons, the domestic market has seen little growth, and while the latest deal was promoted as the largest in Premier League history, it spans four years, resulting in a year-on-year increase of only 2.3% compared to the current cycle. Additionally, this new cycle includes 270 live games, up from the 200 live games in the previous cycle, which effectively results in a decrease in the value per live game.

And at £1.67 billion per year, the domestic deal is still below its peak of £1.72 billion from the 2016/17 to 2018/19 cycle.


The Premier League meeting produced another major media story as the competition announced that its clubs have unanimously agreed to bring its broadcast operations work in-house from 2026/27, which affords the league the option of launching a so-called ‘Premflix’ direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform in future should it wish to go down that route in some territories.

The decision will mean the end of the Premier League’s long-running partnership with IMG, which has been producing and distributing content from the competition since 2004 through Premier League Productions (PLP).[/I]
 
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