Football fans flocked to the web to keep up with Euro 2004 results, but the online champion was BBC Sport's site, according to Nielsen/Netratings.  

The research, done during the entire tournament, showed it had an average of a million visitors a week, mostly men. Sky Sports had about 400,000 footie fans checking its site, and Yahoo Sports scored with about 300,000. The figures also showed that the Uefa site was the only one to attract almost as many women as men. The Sky Sports site was less successful at attracting women, only netting 8% of female fans.  

"Euro 2004 was a massive event for everyone at the BBC Sport website," said Ben Gallop, BBC Sport's online editor. "As well as covering all the action as it happened and providing distinctive journalism, we put a real emphasis on innovation for this tournament, particularly with our Virtual Replay application. "So it's hugely gratifying to know that the extraordinary efforts that the team put in have resulted in such strong audience figures."  

FEMALE VS MALE VISITORS

• Official Euro 2004 website
  
• AOL Sports: 24% female - 76% male AOL Sports
  
• BBC Sport: BBC SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 10% female - 90% male
  
• Sky Sports: 8% female - 92% male Sky Sports
  
• Sporting Life: 17% female - 83% male Sporting Life
  
• Uefa Euro 2004: 47% female - 53% male  Uefa Euro 2004
  
• Yahoo Sports
  
• Sporting Life

  When England battled Switzerland, which was on a week day, the figures showed net audiences were the highest since the tournament's kick-off.