English FA Cup

The Premier League has a new home in Mexico and Central America after its previous broadcast partner, Paramount Global, handed back rights ahead of the 2024-25 season.

Central Asia is the next region in which Premier League and FA Cup rights have been sold together, with the Saran Media Group picking up the contract to 2027-28

England’s FA Cup is returning to pay television after the Football Association awarded a range of rights to TNT Sports from 2025-26 to 2028-29 with a “selected” number of matches to remain on free-to-air television.

The FA’s decision to cede control of FA Cup international rights to the Premier League could be confirmed next Monday, July 17, as the governing body looks to prevent a reduction of about $235m in its media rights revenue over the four seasons from 2024-25 onward.

The Premier League has approached England's Football Association with a framework that would see the league sell the FA's international media rights alongside its own in a long-term partnership beginning with the 2024-25 season, SportBusiness understands.

New World TV Group has secured exclusive French-language pay-TV rights to broadcast England's FA Cup in 16 countries across Western and Central Africa, along with non-exclusively in Chad

Chinese streaming platform Bilibili has acquired the exclusive digital media rights in China for the English FA Cup in a three-season deal, 2021-22 to 2023-24

FA Cup broadcast rights in Brazil have been secured by Disney in a long-term agreement, it has been reported

The Pitch International agency has reached an agreement with the Football Association to retain FA Cup broadcast rights in Western Europe and the Middle East and North Africa for an additional four seasons,…

ViacomCBS-owned Australian broadcaster Network Ten has acquired rights to the English FA Cup

Greek pay-television broadcaster Cosmote has acquired rights to the FA Cup, English football’s knockout clubs competition, for the remainder of the 2020-21 tournament and also the 2021-22 edition.

The value of FA Cup rights in Hong Kong fell again in commercial broadcaster TVB’s deal for the 2020-24 cycle, which followed the collapse of the two prior broadcast agreements in the territory.

The English FA is threatening to take the Saudi state-backed broadcaster KSA Sports to court over showing clips of old FA Cup matches featuring Newcastle United, it has been reported

StarTimes, the Chinese-owned African pay-television broadcaster, was able to exploit regulatory pressure facing rival broadcaster SuperSport and secure exclusive rights to the English FA Cup and Community Shield at a reduced fee.

The Football Association rejected a higher bid for domestic FA Cup rights for the 2021-25 cycle from incumbent pay-television broadcaster BT Sport in favour of commercial broadcaster ITV, SportBusiness Media understands, in a move that took the competition exclusively free to air in the UK.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is reportedly on the verge of acquiring domestic rights to the FA Cup for the 2021-25 cycle

The FA has opened the market for FA Cup domestic rights to new competition with the inclusion of a ‘non-linear package’ – expected to attract interest from internet giant Amazon – in the tender for the 2021-22 to 2024-25 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.

The BBC has agreed a new four-season domestic broadcast deal with the English Football Association for the FA Cup