More than 11m viewers tuned
in to watch Brazil's 2-0 win over Germany on the BBC, confirming it
as the convincing winner in the battle for World Cup audiences.
The final on BBC television captured an audience share of 62% -
the highest BBC One audience for Sunday lunchtime for more than 10
Peter Salmon, BBC Director of Sport, said: "The World Cup has
been an outstanding tournament on the pitch and across the BBC.
On television, interactive, radio and online, records have been
broken, and we've earned the right to say that the BBC is yet again
the place for the big occasion."
The audience peaked at 11.6m for the closing stages of the game
in Yokohama - four times more than watched it on ITV, whose coverage
peaked at 2.5m with a 14% share.
The Match of the Day highlights programme on Sunday evening also
attracted more than 2m viewers.
Eight of the 10 most watched matches in the World Cup were on the
Up to 16.8m had watched England's second round victory over
Denmark while more than 13m tuned in to see England beating
However this year's figures were still some way short of the
best-ever World Cup audience, when 24m people watched England's game
against Argentina at France 98.
June was also a record-breaking month for BBC Sport Online - our
unrivalled coverage of the World Cup helped the website register
more than 250m page impressions.
We also received appoximately 130,000 e-mails to the Sports Talk
section during the tournament, while there were around 250,000
downloads of Mini Motty and nearly 500,000 playing our World Cup