Home of football statistics and historyThe 2022 FIFA World Cup is just around the corner and one of the biggest sporting events in the world – fans will be able to find out the full schedule closer to April when the draw will happen and a full roster of games will be made available so punters can prep their bets at Maximumcasinos.com and similar online sites too – with the recent Super Bowl putting up impressive numbers for the biggest sporting event in the US, it has led to some speculating just how big the 2022 World Cup may be, but does it have the potential to be the biggest World Cup in history?
In 2018, the finals between France and Croatia give a glimpse as to what can be expected as estimates suggest that a combined 3.572 billion viewers tuned in to the game with the majority watching at the home and the rest being accounted for with estimates from those are bars, pubs, and similar venues that show the game. That’s more than half of the world tuning in to watch perhaps the biggest sporting event in the world behind or on level perhaps only with the Olympics, and showing the global outreach that football has.
The past couple of years have been good to the sport too – the initial cancellations and postponements for major sporting back in 2020 had led to increasing interest from fans in to sports they may not have otherwise explore for something to watch and had helped football grow in different regions particularly across the US, but also helped different leagues even those that already had quite a large following to grow too once a regular schedule had been restored leading to football being at it’s most popular point – this will certainly only extend to the World Cup too as these new audiences tune in.
Broadcasting differences may look to help too, whilst much of the world will still have the same free access through different TV channels and stations, the growing online streaming platform may play a role in increasing viewership too – a large number of different streaming platforms have already been approved to broadcast the game and others may appear closer to the live date too which provides an opportunity for those without a TV or typical cable connection to view too, this may lead to an increased time to pull the data together for total viewership but it is already expected to be higher than the number seen in 2018, and certainly shows potential to be the biggest world cup in the history of the sport too.
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