More than 5 million viewers watched the derby of LaLiga's comeback

More than five million spectators from around the world saw the Sevilla-Betis derby with which LaLiga Santander resumed on June 11, 95 after the paralysis of the competition for the coronavirus pandemic, according to the audience data offered this Saturday on its website by the Seville club.

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Of these, 813,534 were nationals, which represents 16 percent of the global audience generated by the Seville rivalry game, and 4,271,059 from other countries, 84 percent of the total, according to the audience data of the crash, both live and delayed and in reruns, collected on their official channels by Sevilla.

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These figures put “in value” the motto “#VolverEsGanar promoted by LaLiga and “the success of the bet” of this entity “for 'The Great Derbi'” for the return of Spanish football, highlighted the Seville club, since the rivalry duel of the Andalusian capital “was broadcast on more than ninety channels throughout the planet.”

Sevilla indicated that the LaLiga scorecard shows in a comparison the great growth in spectators registered at Sevilla-Betis on June 11, which was followed by 5,084,593 viewers, compared to that of two seasons ago, when in 2017-18 it reached 2,035,532 viewers.

Thus, this last derby, won by Sevilla's 2-0, had more than three million viewers more than that of two campaigns ago, according to this LaLiga comparison, a fact that for Seville shows that, “despite not having an audience in the stands, the passion of the derby continues to expand more and more”.