Italian state broadcaster Rai has agreed a four-year extension to its rights deal with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).
The new contract, running from 2015 until 2018, covers friendly games played by the Italian national team, along with other properties including friendly and competitive home matches played by the Under-21 squad.
The agreement includes television, online and mobile rights, with Rai also being granted exclusive global rights to home matches played by the Italian national teams. The FIGC said full details of the new deal will be revealed at a press conference in the coming weeks.
Rai’s extension with the FIGC comes after it acquired the broadcasting rights in Italy to all the Italian national football team’s matches in the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup competitions.
Under the deal agreed in April 2014, Rai is showing all of Italy's qualifying matches live on its flagship channel, Rai Uno, as well as a highlights programme on the same night on Rai Sport rounding up all the day’s European qualifiers.