World Cup 2018: England win attracts 18.3m TV audience, record 3m streams
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| 2018 Fifa World Cup on the BBC |
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| Host: Russia Dates: 14 June - 15 July |
| Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app. |
England's World Cup win over Tunisia was the most-watched television programme of 2018, attracting a peak television audience of 18.3 million on BBC One.
Monday's game in Volgograd, which had a 69.2% audience share at its peak, beat May's Royal Wedding.
There were also a record three million requests to stream it on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.
That made it the highest-ever live audience for an online BBC programme.
More than two million player ratings were awarded by users on the website.
England won the game 2-1 thanks to two goals from captain Harry Kane.
World Cup coverage on the BBC continues across TV, radio and online, including Portugal v Morocco (Wednesday), Argentina v Croatia (Thursday) and England's second group game against Panama on Sunday.
