Football

ZDF delivered a huge audience share of 76.8 per cent for its live coverage of Germany’s clash with Denmark on Saturday evening during a weekend in which teams from four of Europe’s ‘big five’ markets were in action.

Barcelona has terminated an agreement with Mountain & Co, a special purpose acquisition vehicle tasked with handling the Nasdaq flotation of the LaLiga club’s Barça Media business, to focus on “near-term” business opportunities.

The 2.1 million first-season subscriber target for Ligue 1’s mooted D2C channel has been questioned by one of France’s most experienced sports rights executives, while the league’s own clubs have cast doubts on the viability of the proposal.

The Uefa Champions League will continue to get a weekly free-to-air window in Greece, after commercial broadcaster Mega TV sub-licensed a package of rights from pay-television's Cosmote TV

Lega Serie B’s “final offer to the market” will likely end in reduced domestic rights fees for the second division of Italian club football, though the league is hoping a key change in its approach will result in belated deals ahead of the new season.

France's LFP has quickly closed an agreement for Ligue 2 domestic media rights on slightly improved terms, a far cry from its long drawn-out, and to-date unsolved, Ligue 1 sales process.

The European football market grew revenue by 16 per cent in the 2022-23 season to a new high of €35.3bn ($37.8bn), with record matchday and commercial incomes helping to offset a levelling-off of broadcast fees.

RTVE has voted against proceeding with a bid to bring coverage of LaLiga back to public-service television in Spain

Three-season deal agreed which sees rival telco Síminn replaced as the Premier League's rights-holder from 2025-26.

The US’s top-tier National Women’s Soccer League has achieved a substantial increase in its media rights fees, though the cash value of its agreements is understood to be short of the ‘40x’ total uplift that has been reported.

The Ecuadorian Pro League has moved quickly to land a new domestic broadcasting partner after terminating its agreement with pay-television's GolTV, striking an exclusive deal with telecoms operator Xtrim

Fox Sports has announced that it will broadcast the 2025 Uefa Women’s European Championship, which will be held from July 2 to 27 in Switzerland.

TVP again fell victim to a cyber-attack which impacted on its coverage of Poland’s games at Uefa Euro 2024, with the public broadcaster having to resort to back-up measures on Friday.

An anti-piracy operation in Italy has shut down platforms that were illegally streaming matches from the ongoing Uefa Euro 2024 to more than 1.3 million users.

Experts polled by SportBusiness Media say there is a growing disparity between how buyers and sellers value women's football media rights, resulting in stalemates at negotiating tables and leaving the sector at significant risk of plateau.

Lega Serie B has revamped its domestic rights offering less than two months before the start of the 2024-25 season with a new sales strategy based on product as opposed to broadcast platform