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FA Disability Cup 2023 on BT Sport

June 6, 2023

For the third year running the FA Disability Cup in partnership with EE will return to BT Sport with six cup finals scheduled, delivered by The FA in partnership with a range of impairment-specific organisations.

The cup is the largest competition of its kind in this country, ensuring players within impairment-specific football have a national FA competition to call their own, complete with dreams of reaching St George’s Park for finals weekend.

BT Sport will show every match of the 2023 events live on June June 24th and 25th with accessible coverage of all six games:

  • British Sign Language, with sub-titles will be available on BT Sport 1 (June 24th) and BT Sport 3 (June 25th)
  • Enhanced Audio Description delivered by an expert based at St George’s Park will be available on BT Sport 5
  • BT Sport will also livestream all finals on its website, YouTube and the BT Sport App.
  • Highlights will be available on Channel 4 on July 1st then available to be streamed on Channel 4.

Live coverage will run from 10am each day and will be presented by Lynsey Hipgrave alongside Paralympic medallist Ade Adepitan and seven-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockcroft.

Making their live TV debut providing signed analysis of the Deaf Cup Final, will be Damaris Cooke and Rolf Choutan, who were selected as part of New Signing, a BT Sport and EE initiative to make sports coverage more accessible.

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