The Club America-Chivas Guadalajara match, dubbed the superclasico because the match pits the two biggest professional soccer clubs in Mexico, drew 2.048 million U.S. TV households (1.8% rating), and 3.956 million U.S. TV viewers age 2 and over when it aired live in the U.S. on Univision on Sunday December 10 at 9pm Eastern Time/6pm Pacific Time.
Not only did the viewership of the superclasico surpass the viewership of any other professional club soccer match on U.S. television (including both Major League Soccer and the Mexican First Division) in the past 12 years, the US TV viewership of the match surpassed the U.S. TV viewership of every National Hockey League (NHL) telecast on both NBC Sports and OLN (now known as Versus) during the 2005-2006 NHL season with the exception of Game 7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final series on NBC Sports (which drew 5.45 million viewers age 2 and over).
DAMN!