The National Football League comprises 32 teams from across the United States competing in two conferences split roughly by region. The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. This survey depicts the level of interest in the NFL in the United States, and it showed that 42 percent of Black respondents were avid fans of the NFL as of April 2023.

The National Football League comprises 32 teams from across the United States competing in two conferences split roughly by region. The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. An April 2025 survey found that 29 percent of Americans aged 55 and above considered the NFL to be their top interest.

As of August 2023, around half of NFL fans aged 18-29 were white. Meanwhile, ** percent of NFL fans aged 30 or older were Black, while this figure stood at ** percent among those aged 18 to 29.

An August 2022 survey in the United States revealed that respondents were fairly divided about their intentions to tune into the new NFL season. While ** percent of male respondents planned to watch NFL games on TV in the new season, just over ** percent of female respondents stated that they had no intention of doing so.

A January 2023 survey illustrated the average weekly viewership of National Football League games by respondents of different ethnicities in the United States. According to the survey, ** percent of Asian respondents stated that they spent between *** and **** hours a week following NFL games, whereas this figure amounted to ** percent for white survey participants. Meanwhile, ** percent of African American/Black and Latino respondents spent between *** and **** hours weekly watching football.

The NFL is one of the most widely televised sporting leagues in the world. The average television viewership of a regular season NFL game in 2024 was calculated to be **** million. Attendance In addition to this record-breaking TV viewership, the NFL attracts thousands of fans to the stadiums each week to see their favorite teams in action. The NFL has consistently been the major American sports league with the highest average attendance, with an average of almost ** thousand people attending each game in the 2023 season. Moreover, during the 2024 regular season, the average total home attendance per team across the entire NFL was calculated to be *******. The franchise with the highest total attendance for its eight regular-season home games was the Dallas Cowboys, perhaps in part to their comparatively reasonably priced tickets, costing nearly *** U.S. dollars on average, just less than the average ticket price across the NFL at *** U.S. dollars per ticket. Best players Since 1957, the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award has been given to the NFL player considered to have been the most outstanding during the season. Since the award's introduction, Peyton Manning has received the award the greatest number of times during his career, closely followed by Aaron Rodgers, who has received the award on **** occasions. One other potential indicator of the success of an NFL player is their annual salary. The highest-paid NFL player in 2024 was Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who earned **** million U.S. dollars from salary and bonuses and ** million U.S. dollars from endorsement deals during the 2024 season.

In a September 2024 survey, ** percent of respondents in the United States who identified as NFL fans described themselves as occasional fans. Meanwhile, ** percent of respondents described themselves as diehard fans.

In the 2023 NFL season, the average number of a "Thursday Night Football" (TNF) game exclusively available on Amazon Prime Video peaked at around ***** million in the U.S., up from **** million in the previous season. Younger audiences in particular tend to watch NFL games on streaming services. Among the age group 18 to 49 years, the viewership of TNF grew by around ******* between 2022 and 2023.

The NFL is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States, with televised games attracting millions of viewers each week. As of April 2025, a survey determined that 26 percent of respondents in the United States considered the NFL to be their top interest.

In a September 2024 survey, ** percent of respondents in the United States reported watching more than ** NFL games on average during the 2023/24 season. Meanwhile, only ***** percent of fans watched just *** game.

In 2022, the average viewership of NFL games at primetime in the United States sank to *** million. This continued the trend of decline in primetime viewership that began in 2002 and was constant except for the years 2006, 2008, and 2013, when there were slight increases in the number of viewers. In comparison, the average television viewership of the NFL regular season only reached below ** million once between 2010 and 2023.

With over eight million fans, the Dallas Cowboys were the most followed National Football League team on Facebook as of November 2024. Second on the list were the New England Patriots, six-time winners of the Super Bowl. NFL on social mediaWhile the Cowboys lead the way on Facebook, the New England Patriots have the largest following on X (Twitter). The New England team had around 4.65 million fans as of November 2024. Meanwhile, the team with the lowest social media following, on Facebook and Twitter, were the Jacksonville Jaguars.The cost of being an NFL fanFollowing your favorite team on social media is one thing, but it does not compare to the atmosphere of being at a live game. However, while football is loved across America, being a fan of the sport does not come cheap. The average cost for a family of four to enjoy a home game in the NFL, including refreshments and merchandise, came to a staggering 631 U.S. dollars in 2023. This marks an increase of nearly 300 U.S. dollars on the figure from 2006.

There are millions of sports fans across the United States, from those religiously following an NFL team to avid tennis fans or those who watch every Formula One Grand Prix. During an April 2023 survey in the United States, 44 percent of male respondents stated that they were avid sports fans. Meanwhile, this figure was just 15 percent among female respondents.

National Football League fans in the U.S.

Football is a widely enjoyed sport in the United States, as is evident from the millions of fans who tune in to watch their favorite teams compete every Monday night. The sport enjoys a diverse viewer demographic, with more than two thirds of white, Hispanic, and Black participants in an online survey identifying as either an avid or casual fan of football in January 2023. The survey also investigated the level of interest in the NFL in the U.S. broken down by gender, with a significantly larger share of men identifying as avid fans of the sport than women.

Women’s professional sports fans in the U.S.

Women’s professional sports viewership in the U.S. has grown significantly in recent years, helped at least partially by tournament victories across a wide range of sporting categories. When asked about the reason behind their interest in women’s sport in the U.S., nearly a third of respondents highlighted international events such as the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup as primary motivators for their interest. Meanwhile, when asked about the role of advertisers in promoting the growth of women’s sport in the U.S., more than half of survey participants believed that media agencies had a responsibility to do so.

A January 2025 survey revealed that the share of fans who watched NFL games on streaming services in the United States varied by age. The highest share of fans in the U.S. who watched NFL games via streaming services were aged 18 to 34. Meanwhile, fans aged 55 years and older were the least likely to use a streaming service to watch football games.

The statistic shows figures on the television ratings and viewership figures for NFL games in the United States from September 11 (week 1) to February 5, 2017 (Super Bowl). The game in week nine between the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders, broadcast on NBC, was watched by a total of 18.3 million viewers. The final and most important game of the season, the Super Bowl, was watched by over 111 million people in the United States. The most-watched Super Bowl since 1990 was Super Bowl XLIX in 2015, which was contested between the New England and the Seattle Seahawks. The game was watched by over 114 million people across the United States, giving it a household rating of 47.5.

Figures for the 2017/18 season can be found here.

The Detroit Lions were the most watched team in the NFL in the 2024 regular season, with their games drawing in an average TV audience of over ** million fans. Meanwhile, the regular season games of the Philadelphia Eagles, the winners of the Super Bowl that year, averaged just over **** million viewers.

This statistic displays the result of a survey on the distribution of National Football League (NFL) fans in Great Britain in 2022, by age group. In that year, it was found that approximately ** percent of British NFL fans were between the ages of ** and **.

NBC's Sunday Night Football is a mainstay of the sports television schedule in the United States. In the 2023/24 season, an average of 21.4 million viewers watched SNF, up eight percent on the previous year.

NBC is home to the iconic Saturday Night Football, one of the mainstays of the NFL regular season. Average viewership of Saturday Night Football on NBC in the 2024 regular season stood at **** million.

An average of 13.2 million viewers tuned in to watch Thursday Night Football in the United States during the 2024 NFL season. This marked an increase of over 10 percent on the previous season.