CBS Sports and the English Football League (EFL) have announced an exclusive, multi-year, multi-platform rights agreement for CBS Sports to offer the widest distribution of EFL matches ever in the US. CBS Sports will air at least 250 EFL matches each season across the Championship, League One, League Two, Carabao Cup and Bristol Street Motors […]
The English football League (EFL) has announced the renewal of it national radio rights deal with talkSPORT for a further four seasons. Fans will now be able to listen to exclusive live commentary of their team on talkSPORT, with an uplift in games across the Sky Bet EFL and the Play-Offs. As part of the […]
The Sky Bet EFL has achieved the distinction of being the highest attended league body in Europe, after welcoming more than 21.5 million fans through the turnstiles in 2023/24. The cumulative attendance figure is the most since the 1951/52 season, representing an 11 per cent increase on the previous season and sees the League finish […]
Sky Sports and ITV have reached an agreement in principle which will allow all UK football fans to watch free-to-air coverage of select Carabao Cup and Championship fixtures. The new deal starts in January 2025, commencing with the Carabao Cup semi-finals, running until the end of the 2026/27 season and means ITV will jointly broadcast […]
Sky has announced it will launch Sky Sports+ this August, a service it says will be “transformational in the amount of choice sports fans will have access to via live streams, the mobile app and a dedicated new channel, all at no extra cost”. With more coverage from the English Football League (EFL), both tennis […]
The English Football League (EFL) and IMG have announced a deal which will see IMG deliver a major upgrade to the EFL’s broadcast and streaming output over the next five seasons. With record domestic and international broadcast deals in place from the 2024/25 season until 2028/29, the EFL says it is committing to an increased […]
The EFL, which runs the second, third and fourth flights of English professional football, has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for interested parties regarding its international broadcast rights, which are scheduled to conclude at the end of the 2023/24 season. Building on its previous agreements, the EFL has witnessed steady growth in both revenue […]
EFL clubs have unanimously approved a record domestic rights deal with broadcaster Sky Sports worth £935 million over a five-year period with over 1,000 matches to be broadcast each season – a record number of games for any club football agreement. Running from the 2024/25 season to 2028/29, the arrangement will be made up of […]
Further to the announcement of Sky Sports as its preferred bidder earlier in April, the EFL, which runs the three football leagues below the Premier League, has called a meeting of all Clubs for May 5th to consider proposals for a new domestic broadcast agreement from 2024/25 onwards. The League has been in an exclusive […]
The EFL, which runs the three football leagues below the Premier League, has issued an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for interested parties in respect of its broadcast rights from season 2024/25 onwards, with speculation suggesting that they are set to double in value to over £200 million (€227m) a season. Streaming companies such as Viaplay […]