Overview

• Multiple outlets report average linear viewership this season at roughly 2.39m, down from about 2.68m over the same period last year.
• The BBC now posts full match-length highlights on iPlayer around two hours before broadcast, with reports citing roughly 1.7m weekly viewers for those clips.
• The corporation says a significant share of the audience now watches on iPlayer, though it has not provided streaming figures.
• Audience share in the late-Saturday timeslot averages 34.8% this season, slightly higher than in each of the previous two years.
• Ratings had been declining before Gary Lineker’s May departure, and the show now uses a presenting rotation of Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan and Kelly Cates with Wayne Rooney added as a pundit.