The Soccer Tournament set record attendance and viewership numbers after its six-day event in Cary, NC. The tournament, held at WakeMed Soccer Park, saw 57,942 fans watching in person, a 12% increase from last year.
Viewership Numbers
A semifinal match on NBC was the tournament’s most watched game of all-time, with an average audience of 433,000. On YouTube, the tournament says 1,036,207 unique viewers watched matches, a 61.5% increase in views and a 37.4% increase in unique viewers from the 2025 tournament.
The championship game had 145,592 viewers outside of the USA on the organization’s YouTube page, showing an international appetite for the tournament. The tournament will continue to be played at the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary through 2029 as part of a $6.8 million grant from the state.
Original reporting: WRAL Raleigh — read the source article.
