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Setanta Sports has acquired exclusive Fifa Women's World Cup rights in nine countries across the Eurasia region, SportBusiness has learned

A television blackout of the forthcoming Fifa Women’s World Cup has been averted in Portugal after an agreement was reached with Sport TV.

Japan coach Futoshi Ikeda has expressed his concern over the current impasse for domestic broadcast rights to the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup, stating that a lack of Japanese television coverage of the t…

Fifa has extended its media rights agreement for the 2023 Women’s World Cup with the European Broadcasting Union, ensuring the tournament will be screened in the major markets of France, Germany, Italy, S…

Coverage of the upcoming Fifa Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be made available to free-to-air broadcasters across the Pacific Islands, thanks to an agreement with the Pacific Cooperation…

The BBC is “absolutely committed” to securing a rights deal for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup, the UK public-service broadcaster’s chief content officer has said. Fif

Sports ministers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK have called for agreements to finally be reached on media rights deals for the forthcoming Fifa Women’s World Cup in their respective countries.

Vietnam’s debut appearance at the Fifa Women’s World Cup this year will be shown by National Assembly Television, following the acquisition of rights in the country by VMG Media.

French media group L'Équipe has acquired rights to the this year's Fifa Under-20 World Cup and World Rugby Under-20 Championship in separate deals with football and rugby union’s world governing bodies.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has once again called on broadcasters in the ‘big five’ European markets to increase their offers for media rights to the 2023 Women’s World Cup, describing their curre…

Fox Sports has announced its coverage plans in the United States for the upcoming 2023 Fifa Women's World Cup, which will include a record 29 matches airing on Fox's main broadcast network

Fifa has gone to market in Austria and Switzerland with the media rights in both countries to the 2026 World Cup

Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive at Fox International Channels, has been convicted of participating in a scheme to pay bribes to South American football officials, while the Full Play agency has…

Gianni Infantino expects Fifa to increase its media rights revenue by almost $1bn in the 2023-26 cycle, but his media rights sales team will go to market with a millstone around its neck.

Fifa generated broadcast income of $2.96bn (€2.77bn) in 2022, fuelled by media rights deals for the World Cup in Qatar and reflective of just over half of the governing body’s total revenue for the year.

Fifa plans to return the tournament to its pre-pandemic December date, which is understood to be preferable to January or February in terms of a broadcast product that can draw strong media rights revenues.

Chinese media group Shinai Sports has paid a strong fee for rights to the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup in a deal that experts say is worth significantly more than for previous tournaments.

Fifa has opted to retain rights to stream the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup free of charge in over 50 territories on its new OTT platform