The World Cup quarterfinals get underway Thursday afternoon with France-Morocco at 4pm ET on Fox and Telemundo. The last two iterations of the World Cup saw the round begin on a Friday with earlier start times given the location of the events.
The best of the quarterfinal games four years ago from Qatar was the France-England matchup, which drew a combined 13.8 million viewers on a Saturday afternoon. Given changes to viewership metrics and the later start, a number of games in this year’s quarterfinals will certainly pass that figure. Eight years ago, the best QF was just 9.2 million in English and Spanish for Croatia-Russia early on a Saturday afternoon.
Below are audience figures for each of the quarterfinals, semifinals, third-place games and final for the past two World Cups.
