June 27 – The English Football league, whose 72 clubs underpin professional football in England, have renewed its key national radio rights deal with talkSPORT for a further four years.
June 19 – Canada Soccer is moving on from its previous media partner Mediapro following a settlement with Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) to the legal action filed in January 2024 with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
June 13 – India may have crashed out of AFC World Cup qualifying for 2026, but the second largest country in the world has a growing appetite for football and the confederation is keen to harness its vast population in the regional game.
June 6 – UEFA has unveiled a new series of short films focused on the technical aspects of the game, allowing fans to delve into the minds of elite-level footballers including Kylian Mbappé, Aitana Bonmatí, Manuel Neuer, Kevin De Bruyne, and Lindsey Horan.
May 29 – Bundesliga International has appointed Infront to manage a package of international media rights in a four-year deal, starting with the 2025/26 season.
May 23 – A UEFA.tv documentary from the confederation’s Extraordinary Stories programming strand, picked up the outstanding short documentary prize at the Sports Emmy Awards in New York on Tuesday night.
May 23 – Pixellot has announced a new partnership with the Tximist Foundation to broadcast all Tximist Cup matches from the upcoming tournament in Spain using cutting-edge AI technology and unmanned camera setups.
May 22 – Infront has agreed a five-year representation deal with LFP Media for international broadcast rights to France’s Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 across Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
May 13 – GolTV, the pay-television broadcaster that holds domestic rights to Ecuador’s top-tier Serie A, faces losing its lucrative contract as a 15-day countdown begins for them to pay clubs outstanding rights fees.
April 29 – DAZN has responded furiously to a German Football League (DFL) statement on the tender process and the award of broadcast rights to Sky Germany, amid a dispute with DAZN over delayed payments on the existing contract and negotiations for the Bundesliga rights cycle for 2025-2029.
April 18 – DAZN has renewed its broadcast rights deal with LaLiga EA SPORTS in Italy and Portugal, guaranteeing coverage of all 380 matches from the Spanish competition.
April 17 – The English Football League (EFL) has renewed its broadcast production partnership with IMG taking it through to the end of the 28/29 season. Within the new deal, IMG is committing to deliver a ‘major upgrade’ to the EFL’s broadcast output for the next five years.
April 16 – The Israeli Football Association (IFA) has partnered with Israeli broadcast tech business Pixellot to distribute matches from its U19 2nd division and U16 elite league.
April 12 – The Women’s Super League (WSL) has agreed a one-year extension with Sky Sports and the BBC for broadcast rights to the 2024/25 season while negotiations continue for a longer term deal from 2025.
April 10 – Sports broadcaster Premier Sports has confirmed its return to the UK market having bought back its business sold to Swedish streaming platform Viaplay in a deal that includes naming rights to the Scottish League Cup, to be called The Premier Sports Cup next season.