Women's World Cup 2023: England v Australia watched by 7m on BBC TV

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England's Fifa Women's World Cup semi-final triumph implicit Australia was watched by much than 7 cardinal connected BBC TV.

Wednesday's historical lucifer was the astir watched of the tourney truthful far, with a highest assemblage of 7.3m and an further 3.8m streams crossed BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Online.

There were besides 2.7m requests connected integer platforms for highlights and clips from the game.

Sunday's last against Spain successful Sydney astatine 11:00 BST volition beryllium shown connected BBC One.

Coverage volition statesman astatine 10:00 with unrecorded commentary besides disposable connected BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.

Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo were connected people successful Sydney connected Wednesday arsenic the Lionesses claimed a 3-1 victory to go the archetypal England squad to scope a elder World Cup last since the men's broadside won the 1966 tourney connected location soil.

Afterwards, manager Sarina Wiegman, who becomes the archetypal manager to instrumentality 2 countries to the last of the tourney having led the Netherlands to the 2019 showpiece, said reaching the decider was a "fairytale".

The lucifer besides broke Australian broadcast records arsenic it became the astir watched tv programme of immoderate genre successful the state since the existing standing strategy was established successful 2001.

According to viewing figures, it had an mean assemblage of 7.13m and reached 11.15m Australians crossed the country.

It bushed the 2003 men's Rugby World Cup final, which had attracted an mean assemblage of astir 4m. Under the erstwhile standing system, much than 8m watched Cathy Freeman triumph 400m golden astatine the 2000 Olympics successful Sydney.