Football

International sports broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has acquired rights for the home matches of six clubs in Liga MX Femenil – the top women’s football competition in Mexico.

English Premier League football club Chelsea has struck new carriage deals with pay-television platforms in a number of countries for its Chelsea TV in-house channel.

Social media company Facebook has refused to rule out a bid for the next cycle of rights to the Premier League, the top division of English club football, but has maintained that broadcasters should not feel threatened by its growing presence in the sports rights market.

A meeting scheduled to discuss a new media-rights distribution model for English Premier League football clubs was adjourned yesterday (Wednesday) without an agreement having been reached.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has confirmed it has secured rights to the Uefa Europa League club football competition in Germany and Austria.

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has agreed a deal to stream live coverage of German football’s Bundesliga in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordics, as well as Romania.

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets analyses the media-rights landscape of football associations, focusing on governing bodies, both international and national.

Coverage of the Italian Serie A women’s football competition will be shown on social media website Facebook.

Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) president Wilmar Valdez has said the Tenfield agency is keen to extend its rights deal for domestic football in the country.

Italian Serie A football club Inter Milan has rebranded its television channel as part of a major revamp of its in-house media operations.

The Mexican Football Federation (Femexfut) has confirmed the extension of its rights deal with pay-television operator Televisa and commercial broadcaster TV Azteca.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has retained its rights to the national football team’s qualifying games for major tournaments under a new deal with European governing body Uefa.

The French Football League (LFP) has extended its partnership with video-sharing platform YouTube.

When FBI raids brought the Fifa scandal to public attention in May 2015, one of the burning questions was: how will football benefit from the crackdown on corruption? The outcome of the Conmebol tender this week provided the clearest answer so far.

US media company NBCUniversal and Latin American telecommunications group América Móvil have presented a joint offer for the rights to Mexican national team football, according to multiple reports.