The English Football League (EFL) has announced Gorilla, the UK DIY brand, as a sponsor of Sky Sports’ coverage of the Carabao Cup. The new deal will see the brand assume a prominent presence across all Sky Sports’ Carabao Cup broadcasts for the 2025/26 season. Known for its glues, tapes, adhesives, sealants, and innovative waterproofing […]
A peak domestic UK TV audience of almost 8 million fans witnessed history at Wembley Stadium on March 16th, as Newcastle United broke a 70-year major domestic trophy wait to clinch the 2025 Carabao Cup, with a 2-1 victory over Liverpool. Across Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Main Event, ITV1 and ITVX an average domestic […]
The schedule for the Semi-Finals of the Carabao Cup has been confirmed, with the ties to be played across two legs on the weeks commencing January 6th and February 3rd. All ties will be broadcast live on Sky Sports. In addition to this, the first leg of Arsenal v Newcastle (January 7th) and the second […]
CBS Sports and the English Football League (EFL) have announced an exclusive, multi-year, multi-platform rights agreement for CBS Sports to offer the widest distribution of EFL matches ever in the US. CBS Sports will air at least 250 EFL matches each season across the Championship, League One, League Two, Carabao Cup and Bristol Street Motors […]
Sky Sports and ITV have reached an agreement in principle which will allow all UK football fans to watch free-to-air coverage of select Carabao Cup and Championship fixtures. The new deal starts in January 2025, commencing with the Carabao Cup semi-finals, running until the end of the 2026/27 season and means ITV will jointly broadcast […]
The English Football League (EFL) and IMG have announced a deal which will see IMG deliver a major upgrade to the EFL’s broadcast and streaming output over the next five seasons. With record domestic and international broadcast deals in place from the 2024/25 season until 2028/29, the EFL says it is committing to an increased […]
EFL clubs have unanimously approved a record domestic rights deal with broadcaster Sky Sports worth £935 million over a five-year period with over 1,000 matches to be broadcast each season – a record number of games for any club football agreement. Running from the 2024/25 season to 2028/29, the arrangement will be made up of […]
The Carabao Cup Final was watched by a record audience of 4.26 million people on Sky Sports in the UK, as Erik Ten Hag’s Manchester United overcame the challenge of Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United, to win 2-0 and lift the Carabao Cup for a sixth time. The peak audience was 60,000 higher than the previous […]
Viaplay will be the exclusive streaming home of EFL Sky Bet Championship and Carabao Cup football in every Nordic and Baltic country, Poland and the Netherlands from the 2022/2023 season, as the result of a new long-term rights agreement. Every season, more than 180 live matches from England’s second tier will be shown on Viaplay, […]
Sky Sports has announced that television and radio presenter Mark Chapman will host its Carabao Cup on-screen line-up for the 2022/23 competition starting this summer. Chapman has over 25 years broadcasting experience and is currently presenting BBC’s Match of the Day 2 and The Monday Night Club on BBC Radio 5 Live. He also previously […]