The US Women’s National Soccer Team is one of the country’s most decorated teams in recent history, bar none.
They set an American viewing record in 2015 when a whopping 23 million tuned in to watch them defeat Japan — on Fox Sports alone. Another 1.3 million tuned in on the Spanish-language channel Telemundo, making it both the most-watched game in English-language American soccer broadcast history and the most-watched Spanish language game in Women’s World Cup history.
That year, they reportedly outpaced the US Men’s National Team in revenue drawn in by $20 million — and there’s no comparative US Men’s World Cup year’s worth of revenue to pull in from last year, because the men’s team straight-up didn’t qualify.