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Roku Sports adds National Women’s Soccer League Zone

Roku has launched the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Zone in the US – a new destination in the Roku Sports experience. The NWSL Zone will showcase live and upcoming games, programming and more from the premier professional women’s soccer league. This is Roku’s first women’s league-branded zone, arriving in time for the season which […]

March 14, 2025

Sporty Group opens new UK development studio headed by Sensible Soccer veteran

Sporty Group, a specialist in online entertainment, has unveiled a new UK-based games development hub led by industry legend Professor Jon Hare and supported by key industry talent. The creation of this new studio reinforces Sporty Group’s commitment to the gaming space and accelerates its plans for Sporty Games for 2025 and beyond. The announcement […]

March 13, 2025

AIK Football FAST channel on Pluto TV

AIK Football has announced a deal to bring a dedicated FAST channel to Pluto TV. The Pluto TV AIK channel will showcase match highlights, interviews, behind-the-scenes content and training sessions from the Swedish football club, as well as AIK’s own sports show Studio AIK. Following the recent partnership with Borussia Dortmund in Germany, the deal […]

March 10, 2025

BBC scores Scotland, Wales, NI football matches

The BBC has confirmed a deal to broadcast Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland men’s international football matches in the run-up to the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026. Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations, commented: “I’m absolutely delighted that fans across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will now be able to enjoy live, free-to-air coverage […]

March 7, 2025

Baller League coming to Sky Sports

Sky and Baller League have announced a one-year broadcast partnership which will see Sky Sports and NOW become the TV home of the new indoor six-a-side competition in the UK. Every match from the inaugural UK season will be shown live on Sky Sports linear channels on Monday nights, hosted by Chunkz and Olivia Buzaglo. […]

March 7, 2025By Nik Roseveare

CONMEBOL renews partnership with IMG

The South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, has renewed its partnership with sports marketing agency IMG to power further long-term growth of the region’s club competitions. The new agreement will see IMG continue to manage CONMEBOL’s commercial, sponsorship, and media rights via its FC Diez Media team through 2030. Together, CONMEBOL and IMG have delivered revenue […]

March 6, 2025

England’s Lions: The New Generation coming to Prime Video

England’s Lions: The New Generation, a feature-length documentary chronicling the experiences of England’s emerging football stars as they navigate the immense pressure and glory of representing their country, will launch in the UK & Ireland exclusively on Prime Video on March 15th. The film provides intimate access to these players’ journeys, from their grassroots beginnings […]

March 6, 2025

Spain: Movistar, La Liga websites affected by piracy assault

La Liga’s crackdown on pirate streaming platforms is an unwanted impact on Movistar Plus+ and several Spanish football teams’ websites that are facing outages preventing fans from accessing services and buying game tickets. The websites of both Valencia and Girona football club experienced outages for several hours that in the latter case made it impossible […]

March 4, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Sidemen confirm FotMob as official partner for Wembley charity match

FotMob, the essential matchday football app, is once again set to revolutionise the way fans experience the highly sought after Sidemen Charity Match, providing professional-grade coverage for the 2025 edition at Wembley Stadium, delivering FotMob Player Ratings, together with live stats, automated graphics, and in-depth match analysis powered by Opta and Opta AI. Opta is […]

March 4, 2025

Spain may force Google to pay for pirate football TV

Google could be made to compensate La Liga, Telefónica and Mediapro as a result of La Liga football matches broadcast via illegal app, New Play, which sells advertising. Representatives of Google Ireland and Google Commerce Limited have been summoned to testify in court as Google is alleged to make a share of the ad revenue […]

February 28, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid