Game Seven of the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One averaged 51.0 million viewers combined across the United States, Canada, and Japan making the thrilling 11-inning contest the most-watched MLB game in 34 years, since Game Seven of the 1991 World Series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers claimed a back-to-back championship narrowly defeating the Toronto Blue Jays, who made their first World Series appearance in 32 years. The complete seven-game average registered a combined 34.0 million viewers across the U.S., Canada and Japan, capturing the largest audience for the World Series since 1992 and an increase of +19% compared to last year.
With Canada serving as the entire home market of one of the two competing Clubs, the seven-game World Series drew a combined audience of 24.3 million viewers in the U.S. and Canada, which is the largest combined audience from those two countries since 2016 and a +46% increase over last year.
With average viewership of 17.9 million combined viewers from Canada and Japan leading the way, the 2025 World Series generated the largest international audience in the history of the Fall Classic.*
In the U.S., the complete seven-game World Series registered 16.1 million average viewers across FOX, FOX Deportes, Univision (Game One only), the FOX Sports App and FOX One, making it the most-watched Fall Classic in the U.S. since 2017. Younger viewers for the World Series continued to increase as fans 17 & under grew by +11% over last year’s Fall Classic audience making this the most-watched World Series for that age group since 2017. In addition, many of MLB Network’s on-site programs from the World Series grew viewership over 2024, including MLB Central (+36%), Intentional Talk (+34%), and MLB Tonight: National Pregame Show (+44%).
In Japan despite a 9 a.m. local start time, Game Six averaged 13.1 million viewers on NHK-G, making it the most-watched World Series game on a single network in Japan ever. Game Seven averaged 12.0 million viewers on NHK-BS. (Last year, World Series games in Japan aired on multiple over-the-air networks.) The seven-game viewership average in Japan was 9.7 million viewers.
In Canada, Game Seven averaged 11.6 million viewers combining Sportsnet and TVA Sports, MLB’s French language television partner in Canada. The game was the most-watched English-language broadcast on record in Canada outside of the 2010 Winter Olympics, which was hosted in Vancouver. The audience on Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ and Citytv also registered the most-watched Rogers broadcast ever. The seven-game World Series in Canada averaged 8.1 million viewers.
The 2025 World Series presented by Capital One was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in 16 languages. The Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers combined for 13 internationally born players, spanning eight different countries and territories, including Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea and Venezuela.
*Complete global viewership will be available at a later date.
