Europe

Football
United Kingdom

The BBC has reached a preliminary agreement with TNT Sports for sublicensed free-to-air rights to the FA Cup from 2025-26 to 2028-29.
Football
France

Staff at TF1 have been informed that the French commercial broadcaster will not be pursuing a direct deal with Fifa for the 2026 men’s World Cup with rival M6 said to be close to securing the free-to-air r…
Mixed Martial Arts
Poland

Polish commercial and pay-television broadcaster Polsat has extended its exclusive rights to the Ultimate Fighting Championship in a multi-year deal announced today (Monday)
Football
Turkey

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has been awarded a clean sweep of Turkish Süper Lig rights but the scrapping of the initial tender has been met with strong resistance from Saran Media, which warns it will “take all legal steps”.
Football
Turkey

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports and the Saran Media agency must deliver fresh bids for Turkish Süper Lig rights after the initial invitation to tender was scrapped by the Turkish Football Federation …
Motorsport
MENA

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has agreed a 10-year deal for exclusive F1 rights across the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, five years on from dropping rights in the Mena region over piracy concerns.
Football
Baltics

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.
Football
Switzerland

The Swiss Football League (SFL) has launched its domestic broadcast rights tender, working in conjunction with its appointed adviser T Squared, the entity set up by the Team Marketing agency to house its…
Motorsport
Germany

The FIA World Endurance Championship has increased its exposure in the German market through a new deal with Sport1
Football
Germany

The German Football League (DFL) has been given the green light to begin sending official domestic tender documents to interested media companies after the Bundeskartellamt, the cartel office, officially…
Football
Portugal

Sport TV, the Portuguese pay-television broadcaster, has retained rights to Italy’s Serie A in a three-year agreement running from 2024-25 to 2026-27.
Football
Germany

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed to an early extension of its global betting data and streaming rights distribution deal with Sportradar following talks with the industry's various aggregators
Multiple Sports
Germany

Turkish media group Acunmedya has bought a 50-per-cent stake in German sports broadcaster Sport1 for €30m ($32.5m) following an agreement struck with owner Highlight Communications.
Football
Ukraine

UPL TV, the streaming project of the bulk of Ukrainian Premier League clubs, is to go live today (Friday), with global distribution secured
Mixed Martial Arts
Czech Republic

US-based mixed martial arts promotion the Professional Fighters League (PFL) has agreed a new rights deal in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with pay-television broadcaster TV Nova
Multiple Sports
Nordics

Viaplay is to continue reducing its sports rights commitments, turning to sublicensing deals where possible to recoup fees, as part of its company-wide reset.
Football
Germany

Plans for private equity investment into the German Football League (DFL) have been abandoned for the second time in nine months, with seemingly no end in sight to the fan opposition that has disrupted…
Football
Switzerland

The Swiss Football League has appointed the LaSource consultancy to help develop its so-called ‘Digital Vision 2027’ as it aims to become the “most attractive and innovative sports competition in Switz…