TV audiences for women’s sports have doubled from 2021 to 2022, new research by the Women’s Sport Trust has found.
Its report found that 36.1m people watched women’s sport on TV between January-July this year, compared to 17.5m in the equivalent period in 2021.
Football was responsible 72% of the women’s sport audiences between the specified period.
England’s Euro 2022 success was watched by a peak BBC One television audience of 17.4m.
However, the 2022 TV audience figures are down on those in 2019, when 40.4m…