The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has announced an agreement with UC3 to acquire free-to-air media rights for the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) over the next five years until 2030, spanning 24 territories on behalf of 26 EBU Members. This agreement follows EBU Members’ extensive coverage of UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 and builds on a […]
Premier Sports will screen live coverage across the UK and Ireland of Rangers vs Panathinaikos on July 22nd. Russell Martin’s new look squad will welcome the Greek club to Ibrox for the first leg of the crucial UEFA Champions League 2nd qualifying round. Match coverage of the tie will start at 7.15pm, with match kick-off at […]
As Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) secured a 5-0 victory over Inter Milan in the Champions League Final on May 31st, mobile app usage patterns across Europe told the story of the match in real-time data. French fans celebrated with sustained social media activity, while Italian supporters showed sharp engagement drops after the final whistle, according to […]
Over 13 million viewers have tuned-in to Prime Video’s debut season of UEFA Champions League (UCL) in the UK & Ireland across the 2024–25 season, setting a new record for the most watched season of sport on Prime Video in Europe. This season’s Knockout Phase also set new record audiences for individual live sporting events […]
TNT Sports’ coverage of the 2025 men’s UEFA finals – the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League – will all be available for football fans in the UK to watch for free on discovery+. The first game of the trio is the UEFA Europa League final on May 21st in Bilbao, Spain, which sees […]
beIN Mediap Group and UC3, the UEFA-ECA joint venture, have extended their media rights agreement, ensuring beIN Sports, the network’s flagship sports channel, will continue to broadcast European football’s top club competitions live and exclusive across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia until 2027. The partnership between the sports broadcaster and UEFA club competitions […]
Virgin Media O2 has released data showing that Brits are embracing Tuesday as the new big night in, with more broadband traffic on Tuesday evenings than on any other day of the week, including weekends. This is driven by important sporting fixtures often falling on a Tuesday and it being the most common day of […]
As the 2024 UCI Track Champions League dazzled fans on-screen, WBD Sports gave three youth organisations an unforgettable behind-the-scenes tour of the venues and broadcast facilities during the Apeldoorn and London rounds. Ahead of both double headers in the Omnisport Velodrome and the Lee Valley Velopark, a group of students from MBO College Hilversum (Netherlands), […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has acquired the TV rights to the next three years Champions League final (2o25, 2o26 and 2027) for a total cost of €7.5 million (€2.5 million per year). RTVE outbid both Mediaset and Atresmedia in securing the rights to the finals that historically draw siginificant TV audiences in the country. The […]
Friend MTS, a provider of content protection services, has announced that the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the governing body of European football, has extended its commitment to Friend MTS’s anti-piracy technologies and services in respect of all major UEFA club and national team competitions including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women’s Champions League […]