Inthispaper,westudyoptimalrecovery(reconstruction)offunctionsonthesphereintheaveragecasesetting.WeobtaintheasymptoticordersofaveragesamplingnumbersofaSobolevspaceonthespherewithaGaussianmeasureintheLd-1q(S)metricfor1≤q≤∞,andshowthatsomeworst-caseasymptoticallyoptimalalgorithmsarealsoasymptoticallyoptimalintheaveragecasesettingintheLdq(S-1)metricfor1≤q≤∞.