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Japan: DAZN acquires AFC rights

Following its recent acquisition of the AFC Champions League for the next eight seasons, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced sports streamer DAZN as the media rights partner in Japan for all major AFC national team and club competitions for the upcoming cycles in 2021-2024 and 2025 to 2028. The latest announcement will see […]

August 20, 2021

Portugal loses €200m+ a year from piracy

Portugal’s audiovisual industry is losing at least €200 million a year due to piracy. The estimate comes from the director general of the Portuguese Association for the Protection of Audiovisual Works (FEVIPE), Paulo Santos. According to Santos, the estimates are on the low side and the figure includes the amount that the Portuguese State loses […]

August 17, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Eleven to stream Las Chivas matches in 100+ countries

Eleven has agreed a partnership with Mexican football team Club Deportivo Guadalajara, AKA Las Chivas. Football fans in over 100 countries worldwide will have free access to live and on-demand matches from the 2021 Liga MX and Liga MX Femenil season, courtesy of Eleven’s global streaming service ElevenSports.com. Pedro Presa, Eleven Group Chief D2C Officer, […]

August 17, 2021By Nik Roseveare

StarTimes extends Coppa Italia & Supercoppa rights

African digital TV operator StarTimes has renewed exclusive rights to broadcast Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana for further three seasons in Sub-Saharan Africa. Per the contract with Lega Serie A, StarTimes extends the exclusive rights to the two Italian Cup football competitions in English, French, Portuguese and African indigenous languages to the 2023/2024 season. Coppa […]

August 5, 2021

CVC takes La Liga stake

La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, is selling a 10 per cent stake to private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners, for €2.7 billion to help finance its long-term growth plans. The deal values La Liga at around €24.2 billion and, if approved, will fund structural improvements while also offsetting some of the immediate impact […]

August 4, 2021

OTT app seeUplay PRO launches with live Mexican football

The football OTT app brings live Liga BBVA under division tournaments to domestic audiences for the first time Mexican sports technology company seeUplay has launched seeUplay PRO, a new streaming platform for non-televised Mexican football. Built in partnership with OTT agency StreamAMG, the new service offers live access to Liga MX youth leagues in the […]

July 30, 2021

CBS Sports scores Scottish football

CBS Sports and Infront have announced a multi-year agreement for CBS Sports and Paramount+ to become the exclusive US home of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). CBS Sports will present at least 85 matches annually through 2024-2025 from the cinch Premiership – the top division of the SPFL – as well as the second-division […]

July 29, 2021

DFB-Pokal on Premier Sports

Premier Sports has  secured the rights to the German Cup, the DFB-Pokal, this season with live coverage kicking off on August 6th as Bremer SV host twenty time winner of the competition, Bayern Munich. On August 7th Premier Sports will broadcast current DFB-Pokal champions Borrusia Dortmund when they face Wehen Wiesbaden with kick off at […]

July 29, 2021

Court OKs Canal+ beIN contract break

The Tribunal de Commerce de Nanterre (Nanterre Commercial Court) has authorised Canal+ to suspend the sublicensing contract with beIN Sports and to interrupt its payments for the broadcasting of two French top-flight Ligue 1 football matches. The court said, nevertheless, that these payments should resume if the Qatari channel were to sue the Professional Football […]

July 26, 2021

90min named Team GB Women’s Football content partner

Football community, 90min, has been selected as the official home for GB Women’s Football team content, which includes creation and distribution. As a part of this partnership, 90min is the only media outlet on the ground and in the training camp with GB Women’s Football, capturing content leading up to the Olympic Games, which will […]

July 21, 2021