An average of 938,000 viewers watched as Italy edged out England on penalties in the final of Euro 2020 last night.
A share of 56% of those watching television at the time were tuned-in to RTÉ with 279,000 streams delivered on RTÉ Player.
Sunday's final peaked at 1.1 million viewers during the penalty shootout last night.
Across pre-match, live and post-analysis the final had a total one minute reach of 1.6 million.
Euro 2020 was a huge success for RTÉ as on RTÉ2 the live games saw an average of 308,000 viewers & 32.9% share across 46 different games, with final round group games running concurrently on RTÉ2 & RTÉ Player/RTÉ News Channel.
RTÉ head of sport Declan McBennett said: "Summer tournaments are always special in their ability to unite the generations into a mass audience sharing a collective experience and Euro 2020 was no different.
"RTÉ Sport continues to bring the very best of live sport both domestically and internationally to our audience and we now look forward to similar moments that unify us all across the GAA Championship, the Olympics and the Paralympics."
RTÉ Sport has provided extensive free-to-air coverage of the whole tournament and audiences at home had the opportunity to get right to the heart of the action, along with highlight programmes, nothing went unseen for fans.
Last night Darragh Maloney was joined live in studio by Liam Brady, Damien Duff and Didi Hamann, with commentators George Hamilton and Ronnie Whelan in Wembley Stadium.
RTÉ Player had a record-breaking UEFA Euro 2020 performance with over 2.6 million streams across the tournament, up 30% on Euro 2016.
The final between England and Italy was the most popular game online with almost 280,000 streams and breaking the RTÉ Player record for most concurrent devices streaming.
The clash between England and Italy had more than double the volume of streams than the most watched game of Euro 2016.
Despite the Republic of Ireland side not playing in the finals this time, it didn't stop Irish online audiences devouring 1.7 million hours of soccer in June.
RTÉ Sport will continue with extensive free-to-air offerings right throughout the summer. We will have unrivalled coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, beginning on 23 July, followed by the summer Paralympics beginning on 24 August.
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