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Spain: DAZN extends Premier League rights

DAZN will keep on showing the Premier League in Spain until 2025. The online sports platform has renewed their contract with the top-flight English football league for another three years, giving it the rights to 235 matches per season. Its current deal expires after the 2021/22 season. An agreement with Movistar means matches can also […]

July 14, 2021

Canal+ extends Premier League rights

Canal+, the French pay-TV broadcaster owned by Vivendi, has renewed the rights to the Premier League from 2022 to 2025, and will show all 380 games per season. All matches will air across the Canal+ channels, as well as on streaming service myCANAL and, in particular, on the Canal+ Premier League digital channel. Maxime Saada, […]

July 8, 2021

NENT scores Premier League rights in 5 more countries

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) has secured the exclusive rights to show Premier League football live on its Viaplay streaming service in the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2022 to 2028. The six-season deal expands NENT Group’s long-term partnership with the Premier League to nine European countries. Every season, Viaplay will show 380 […]

July 7, 2021

Singapore: LIVENow secures PPV rights for Premier League

Streaming platform, LIVENow, will offer single match passes for the Premier League 2021/22 season. LIVENow will provide a new flexible service for football fans in Singapore, who will now have the option to purchase pay-per-view passes for one Premier League fixture per match week. Users will have the opportunity to follow games live across multiple […]

July 7, 2021

DAZN, YouTube offer free Women’s Champions League

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has acquired rights to broadcast the UEFA Women’s Champions League and has been awarded host broadcaster duties for the next four seasons, from 2021-25. As part of this agreement, to further grow the sport, DAZN has also entered into a partnership with YouTube that will make the competition live and […]

June 30, 2021

Sky Documentaries commissions ESL doc

Sky Documentaries has announced a Sky Original feature length documentary that will explore one of the most memorable sagas in recent footballing history; the rise and rapid fall of the European Super League (ESL). Produced by production company, Fulwell 73 (Sunderland ‘Til I Die, The Class of 92, I Am Bolt), in association with Sky […]

June 29, 2021

Recast accelerates global expansion plans

Recast, the Edinburgh-based sports OTT platform that recently raised $8.2 million (£5.9 million) in its Series A round of investment, is accelerating its global expansion plans allowing rights holders and content creators to reach untapped global audiences. The company’s direct-to-customer video platform connects rights holders, fans and brands – for free – on one single […]

June 22, 2021

BT Sport reveals first Premier League picks

BT Sport has revealed its pick of Premier League fixtures for the first month of the 2021/22 season. On the first Saturday of the season (August 14th), BT Sport will air Manchester United vs Leeds United live from Old Trafford. On August 21st, BT Sport will show Liverpool taking on Burnley at Anfield, and on […]

June 18, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Amazon reveals 2021/22 Premier League games

The Premier League has confirmed the fixture rounds for the 2021/22 season and Amazon has revealed the next 20 fixtures to be broadcast on Prime Video this December. Prime Video’s exclusive coverage will feature every Premier League team in two different matches, as they broadcast all games across two fixture rounds, featuring 20 matches in total. […]

June 16, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Rakuten TV launching free women’s football docuseries

Rakuten TV, the European VoD platform, has announced the stars of their new sports free documentary series Champions, which features six European leading women’s football players. With women’s football enjoying a sharp rise in popularity in recent years, the documentary series will explore the highs and lows of the sport. Leading players from a selection […]

June 10, 2021