Fifa World Cup

Canada’s second match of the 2022 Fifa World Cup last Sunday was the most-watched Fifa World Cup group-stage match ever in the country. The loss to Belgium averaged an audience of 4.4

TF1, the French commercial broadcaster, has been left angered after missing a VAR decision that came after the full-time whistle in France’s Fifa World Cup match against Tunisia.

Both Fox, Telemundo continue to draw strong audiences for World Cup

NOS, the Dutch public broadcaster, pulled in an audience of just over 3.8 million viewers for the Netherlands’ 2-0 win over hosts Qatar at the Fifa World Cup yesterday (Tuesday).

Cámara Argentina de Internet (Cabase), an entity which represents companies and organisations from across the country’s internet ecosystem, has filed a complaint against subscription broadcaster TyC Sp…

The Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) and National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) have been taken to court over claims they failed to ensure broad coverage of the 2022 Fifa World…

An analysis conducted by SportBusiness Media shows that the Fifa World Cup’s global media rights value has kept pace with other blue-riband sporting events, despite what the US Department of Justice described as a 'web of corruption' curtailing its value during the 2000s and early 2010s.

Australia’s first Fifa World Cup win in 12 years pulled in huge ratings for public-service broadcaster SBS on Saturday.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV appears to have cut some images of fans not wearing masks from its television coverage of the Fifa World Cup, according to various reports

Poland’s 2-0 win over Saudi Arabia on Saturday afternoon attracted an average audience of just under 8.9 million viewers across the television channels of Polish public broadcaster TVP.

Local sources say that Fifa’s sales team is already active in the region for sales to the 2026 tournament – to be held across the US, Mexico and Canada – and has been speaking with media companies to ‘warm up’ the market ahead of negotiations next year.

French free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1 attracted an average of 11.6 million viewers on Saturday as France defeated Denmark 2-1 at the Fifa World Cup in Qatar.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV claimed its biggest audience this year, and best Friday viewing figures in more than a decade, for its coverage of England’s 2022 Fifa World Cup group game against United S…

TOD, the official streaming platform of the Fifa World Cup in Saudi Arabia, and all the Middle East and North Africa, has been blocked in Saudi Arabia from the beginning of this year’s tournament in Q…

Highly anticipated World Cup match draws record-setting American audience

Fifa made the decision to move APAC media rights sales in-house earlier this year and is thought to have notified its two current sales agencies in the region, Infront and Dentsu, several months ago.

Football fans in Lebanon have been left without free-to-air television coverage of the ongoing Fifa World Cup due to a state of political paralysis in the Middle Eastern country

Brazilian media group Globo has finalised the details of its 2026 Fifa World Cup rights package as part of its renegotiations with football’s world governing body over its deal for this year’s tournament in …