On the home page of the Puskás Academy and the PUSKÁS–SUZUKI CUP in total 99,886 pages were downloaded by the 18,906 individual users who visited the pages. The majority of those clicking to the home page were from the participant countries but altogether there were 52 countries where people were interested enough to log on to the official website of the competition, while the Academy’s website was accessed from 39 countries from Japan and New Zealand through to Albania.
On www.pfla.hu people clicked on the live broadcast 4,753 times and on www.puskassuzukicup.net 6,181 times, from which 3,475 TV viewers arrived to the page through the English version of the website, meaning that nearly all of them joined to the link from abroad. All of this means that for a shorter or longer time 10,933 visitors joined the live broadcast.
We have also received Sport TV’s official audience statistics; the Budapest Honvéd v Real Madrid final on the Sport 2 channel was watched by 35,000 viewers, meaning that this was the channel’s most popular and watched programme during the day. If we add to this the channel Sport M’s audience data (this hasn’t yet been measured) than this number should reach the spectacular number of last year’s 45-50,000, or at least this relates to data from Hungary because in total the bronze match and the final was viewable live in five different countries altogether. Moreover, SPORT 1 repeated the final late at night and that broadcast resulted in another 7,000 viewers.
The matches were visited live at the venue by many, for example, on the Saturday matchday the official number of the supporters was more than 1000, meaning that the areas around the pitch were practically full. During the whole day on Easter Monday at least that many visited the Sóstói Stadium at Székesfehérvár.
The news of the tournament reached to a wider audience than it ever had before because the matches were reported daily by the Hungarian News Agency (MTI), Nemzeti Sport newspaper, state Hungarian radio and television, Sport TV, DiGiSport TV, the County Fejér news outlets and, for the matches’ results, www.index.hu and the Népszabadság newspaper as well.
