Football

The Uruguayan Football Federation (AUF) has received two bids for the domestic broadcast rights to its national team’s qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup, according to media reports in the country.

Brazilian broadcaster Globo has been unable to reach an agreement with Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football club Flamengo for rights to this year’s Campeonato Carioca state championship, which gets un…

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired media rights for Major League Soccer in 11 markets in the Asia-Pacific region

The chairman of Ghana’s National Media Commission has urged the nation’s football association to publish details of its rights agreement with pay-television broadcaster StarTimes.

Following on from format changes to Uefa’s Nations League in the 2020-21 tournament, there is ongoing uncertainty in Germany over the broadcast home of two additional matches that the national team will p…

Football streaming platform Fanatiz has closed a $10m (€9m) Series A funding round investment deal with 777 Partners, a Miami-based private investment firm.

Digital sports content platform FanCode has agreed a multi-year rights deal to Indian club football competition the I-League

The first Spanish Supercopa to be played in Saudi Arabia yielded an average of 1

The Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group will increase the exposure of Denmark’s 1st Division, the second-tier football league in the country, by broadcasting all matches on its Viaplay streaming service.

OneSoccer, Mediapro’s OTT sports streaming service in Canada, has acquired exclusive rights to the 2021 and 2023 editions of the Concacaf Gold Cup, the national team tournament for associations from N…

UK commercial broadcaster ITV is in talks with telco BT to sublicense some of the latter’s Uefa Champions League rights for the 2021-24 cycle, according to newspaper the Sunday Times.
USA

ESPN+, ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, has gained the exclusive US media rights to Spanish soccer cup competition the Copa del Rey as part of a new multi-year agreement with the Royal Spanish Fo…

The English Premier League has launched the first international media-rights tender of its new sales cycle, going early in the Nordics and offering up the opportunity to bid for six seasons – the first time it has done so in Europe.

UK telecoms operator BT has moved to combat the illegal piracy of its premium subscription-based content by teaming up with video infrastructure company Ateme

The seven betting companies that acquired FA Cup streaming rights in the UK from the IMG agency have expressed their willingness for matches to be streamed free of charge elsewhere

Less than 24 hours since StarTimes, the pay-television in sub-Saharan Africa, acquired the rights to the Ghana Premier League and FA Cup, the Ghana Football Association and Ghana Broadcasting Corporation,…

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has claimed a win in a legal row with LaLiga, which operates the top two divisions of club football in the country, over the airing of 90-second highlights packages

Belgian Pro League clubs will be able to exploit near-live clips on their own digital subscription platforms in the next rights cycle: the first time European clubs have been able to do so without long hold-back periods.