London, Oct.12 (ANI): Premier League football attracted a staggering 4.7 billion television viewers last season.
According to The Sun, global demand to watch stars such as Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie, Didier Drogba and Steven Gerrard is at a new peak.
Figures released by a leading sports business consultancy reveal that 70 per cent of ALL football fans worldwide are now watching the English game.
The report, commissioned by the Sport+Market group in Germany, shows that TV coverage of the Premier League reached 643million homes last season - a rise of 11 per cent on the previous season.
The in-home TV audience has now stretched to a record 3.9 billion, with a further 777 million watching in pubs and bars in every corner of the planet.
The biggest market for the English game is in the Asia and Oceania region, where 1.3 billion viewers tuned in to watch the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea in 2010-11.
The figures estimate 64 per cent of all Chinese fans now support a Premier League club, while half the football followers in the USA have a favourite English team.
In total, the Premier League accounted for 185,000 hours of global TV coverage last season, making it far and away the most popular sporting competition in the world. (ANI)
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