Uefa Europa League
BTV, A1 renew Uefa club rights in Bulgaria
Commercial and pay-television broadcaster bTV and Telekom Austria-owned telco A1 have renewed their rights in Bulgaria to Uefa club competitions, ahead of the current three-year deals ending this Saturday with the Champions League final.
Viaplay stands firm to secure Champions League in Sweden, Denmark
Viaplay Group has ended a tumultuous 12 months by strengthening its position as the dominant football broadcaster in its home Nordics region, picking up exclusive Uefa Champions League rights in Sweden and retaining its contract in Denmark.
Record German audience for Leverkusen’s Europa League defeat
Bayer Leverkusen's unbeaten season may have come to an end with the 3-0 defeat by Italy's Atalanta in last night's Uefa Europa League final but the game netted the highest German audience for a club match…
WBD shifts Uefa finals from YouTube to discovery+
The finals of this season’s Uefa club competitions will be streamed for free on discovery+ as Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to generate more subscriptions for the platform, with the matches to no longer be shown on YouTube.
Atalanta’s progression secures free-to-air coverage of Europa League final in Italy
The Uefa Europa League final will be shown by Italian public broadcaster Rai, after Atalanta’s semi-final win against Olympique Marseille triggered a ruling that provides free-to-air exposure for the match should an Italian team be involved.
Nova nets first-pick Uefa Europa, Conference League rights in Czech Republic
Pay-television broadcaster Nova Sport has secured first-pick rights in the Czech Republic to the Uefa Europa League and Conference League over the next three seasons, 2024-25 to 2026-27, completing the…
Wowow to remain exclusive home of Champions League in Japan to 2027
Wowow, the pay-television broadcaster in Japan, has retained exclusive media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country for the 2024-27 cycle
Disney tests Nordics sports market waters with Uefa club rights deal
Disney's entry into the Nordics rights market, landing the Uefa Europa League and Conference League in Denmark and Sweden, enables it to secure locally relevant content ahead of a more potentially heavyweight rights spend.
April deadline for Uefa club competition rights bids in Ukraine
Broadcasters in the Ukraine must submit first-round offers for Uefa club competition rights by April 22 after the sales process was launched by the Team Marketing agency
Team goes to market in Israel, leaving Mena as main outlier
Broadcasters in Israel have been given five weeks to formulate their bids for media rights to Uefa club competitions in the country
Uefa and Fifa cash in on New World TV’s disruption of African market
Uefa and Fifa benefitted from the aggressive entry into the African sports-rights market of New World Television, the Togo-based pay-television operator, to enjoy strong uplifts for club competition and World Cup rights, respectively.
Uefa in market for 2024-27 rights-holder in Baltics after Viaplay exit
The Team Marketing agency is to go to market with Uefa club competition broadcast rights in the Baltic countries shortly after the exit of Viaplay from the region.
Team takes Uefa club competition rights to market in raft of Asian territories
Team Marketing has gone to market simultaneously with Uefa club competition broadcast rights in 13 different Asian countries and territories as it begins to wrap up the 2024-27 sales cycle
Uefa club competition broadcast rights hit Polish market
Polish broadcasters must deliver first-round bids for Uefa club competition rights by February 27 after the Team Marketing agency kicked off the sales process
TRT to offer broad free window for Uefa club competitions in Turkey
Uefa club football is to be shown free-to-air in Turkey in the next cycle, after public broadcaster TRT picked up the rights to all three competitions.
Ascending Cazé TV won’t rival established broadcasters for rights buyouts
Agency LiveMode has no plans to compete directly against Brazil’s established media companies for all-encompassing exclusive rights deals despite racking up a powerful audience base on streamer Cazé TV.
ServusTV ‘to sublicense’ Uefa club competition rights from Puls 4
Austrian free-to-air commercial network ServusTV is thought to be close to securing rights to the Uefa Europa League and Europa Conference League from ProSiebenSat.1-owned commercial broadcaster Puls 4
Uefa club competitions in-flight, in-ship rights on market
The sales process for in-flight and in-ship broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 to 2026-27 has been issued with incumbent IMG once again the standout candidate to secure the contract