Chinese online streaming platform Tencent has acquired non-exclusive live streaming rights to various major European club football competitions from the MP & Silva agency.
Tencent will stream coverage of the French Ligue 1, Italian Serie A and Scottish Premiership, as well as the English FA Cup knockout competition, to audiences across mainland China throughout the 2017-18 season
The deal includes live streaming of six games during each round of the 2017-18 Ligue 1 and 10 matches per round of Serie A.
Tencent will also stream a total of 55 matches during the 2017-18 edition of the Scottish Premiership.
In addition, Tencent will live stream 40 matches from round one to five of the FA Cup, as well as all quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final.
Tencent will also offer a host of highlight shows and review programmes, which, along with the live matches, will be available across all of its platforms including the Tencent Video, Tencent Sports and Tencent News mobile applications.