Record breaking 8m Brits streamed England’s Qatar World Cup opener on iPlayer

England’s 2022 World Cup opener against Iran opened to a peak of 16 million in Qatar, for the first time iPlayer registered as many viewers as the linear BBC1 channel. 
In the 1pm winter slot on Monday November 21 – clearly not a box office position – England routed Iran 6-2 on the BBC. The match peaked at 8.5 million on BBC1 but according to iPlayer a further 8 million streamed the opening game. This is being reported as a record-breaking figure for iPlayer. 
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