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German pay-television broadcaster Sportdigital Fussball has continued expanding its portfolio with the addition of African qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup
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State-backed broadcaster Oman Sport Channel has picked up the media rights to the Asian zone qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup
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Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired exclusive media rights for at least 60 African qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, with a focus on the PALOP (Portuguese-speaking…
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The African Union of Broadcasting, the body of free-to-air broadcasters, has secured a deal with Fifa for free-to-air rights to qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in 17 countries in sub-Saharan…
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Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for Vietnam's upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in a sublicensing deal with telco FPT
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Brazilian media group Globo is reported to have reached an agreement with Fifa following its legal dispute with football’s world governing body over broadcast rights payments.
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Togo-based satellite television broadcaster New World TV has secured pay-television rights in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa for the 2022 Fifa World Cup and 2023 Women's World Cup
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The IMG agency has been awarded damages to compensate for lost rights fees in its lawsuit against the German arm of TUI Cruises following its live broadcasts of 2018 Fifa World Cup and 2019 Women’s World C…
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Fifa has secured a strong increase in the value of Fifa World Cup 2022 rights in Greece, leveraging competition in the territory to move away from public-service broadcaster ERT for the first time.
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Media group Globo has finalised a rights deal in Brazil for all South American qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup that it did not already hold
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Rai, the Italian public-service broadcaster, has been awarded exclusive broadcast rights in Italy to the 2022 Fifa World Cup
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Fifa is the latest rights-holder to benefit from fierce competition in the Nordics as it sealed huge increases for both the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup and the men’s World Cup in 2026.
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Fifa, world football’s governing body, has launched concurrent invitation-to-tender processes in Italy for both the men’s and women’s iterations of its World Cup tournaments. T
Multi-sport

Three big deals by telco China Mobile have raised cautious hopes for competition in the Chinese rights market after a dreadful 2020.
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Finnish public-service broadcaster YLE and commercial and pay-television broadcaster MTV3 have acquired rights in the Nordic country to the 2026 Fifa World Cup
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TV4 Media, the Telia-owned broadcasting company that operates Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4, and Swedish public-service broadcaster SVT have acquired rights to the 2026 Fifa World Cup
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Danish government-owned broadcaster TV2 and public-service broadcaster DR have added to their recent high-profile rights acquisitions in a deal to show the 2026 Fifa World Cup
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Brazilian media group Globo is reported to have successfully fought off an appeal from world football’s governing body Fifa over payment of a $90m (€76.1m) sum for rights to a host of tournaments.