ALL AUGUST GAMES LIVE: Every match from the National League will be screened LIVE on DAZN during August as part of a major push to drive subscription numbers.
The first two Saturdays of the season sees all games kicking off at 3pm as there are no blackout rules in force those weekends. The Bank Holiday Monday (August 31) games are all being shown at 3pm.
But all Saturday August 22’s games have switched to 12.30pm kick-offs and what normally would have been Saturday August 29’s fixtures have been all moved to 7.45pm on the Friday so that DAZN can complete the whole month’s matches LIVE.
FOUR LIVE GAMES EVERY WEEKEND: On weekends where the blackout rule is enforced, DAZN will now show at least four games live. There will be a new regular Friday evening 7.45pm kick-off, two 12.30pm matches and a 5.30pm kick-off.
EVERY MIDWEEK/BANK HOLIDAY GAME LIVE: All games in midweek rounds of fixtures will be shown live again this season, staggered across Tuesday and Wednesdays.
PRE-CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: For the matchday before Christmas, DAZN have again staggered all 12 games across multiple kick-offs on Saturday and Sunday with no 3pm games that week. Boxing Day, Christmas Bank Holiday Monday’s and January 2’s games will all kick-off at 3pm and be shown on DAZN as there is no blackout rule in place that weekend.
TV GAMES CONFIRMED UP TO THE END OF JANUARY: After complaints from fans and clubs last season, DAZN and the National League have announced all schedule changes up until the end of January. For fixtures beyond that point, live TV game changes will be announced around five weeks ahead of schedule.
NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH & SOUTH: Selected North and South division games will also be screened live to be announced in due course. However, these are usually from midweek rounds or non-3pm blackout weekends so don’t so changes to scheduled kick-off times.
INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES: The above details apply to UK audiences, for the rest of the world ALL games from the National League top division are available to stream.
1,059 EFL matches EVERY season shown LIVE across main Sky Sports channels or via the Sky Sports+ service.
SKY GAMES BREAKDOWN EACH SEASON
328 Championship matches
248 League One matches
248 League Two matches
ALL 15 play-off games
ALL 93 Carabao Cup games
ALL 127 Vertu Trophy games
EACH WEEKEND UP TO 10 LIVE EFL fixtures will be shown, five from the Championship, five from Leagues One and Two.
TIME SLOTS: Five to seven games will be shown on Saturdays at 12.30pm, regular games on Fridays (8pm) and Sundays (12.30pm) with additional matches on Thursday and Monday nights (8pm).
EVERY opening day match will be shown.
EVERY final day game will be shown.
EVERY designated midweek game round will be shown (this does not necessarily include games which were originally due to be played at the weekend, but we displaced to midweek for whatever reason. These games are sometimes shown, but it’s at the discretion of the clubs.)
EVERY bank holiday game will be shown (including Easter, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day.
EVERY League One & League Two game will be shown during international breaks.
SATURDAYS 3PM
Those matches not selected for broadcast which kick-off in the Saturday 3pm slot will not be shown. Broadcast games will be shown out of this time with the final kick-off times and days to be confirmed at a later date.
The EFL says there will be seven 3pm Championship games each regular Saturday and 19 League One/Two games combined at 3pm on Saturdays.
STREAMING
Those matches not on the main Sky channels, but also selected will be available via Sky Sports+ like last season
MATCH COVERAGE
Games shown live on the main Sky channels will have a minimum of eight cameras.
Games on Sky Sports+ rather than on the main Sky channels will have a minimum of six cameras for Championship, four cameras for League One games and two cameras for League Two matches. The games shown on Sky Sports+ are not produced by Sky but by the EFL’s production partner IMG.
ITV
10 LIVE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES (These will already have been selected by Sky. Last season ITV used Sky’s match pictures, but had their own commentators/reporters/pundits and did their own pre and after-match coverage. (ITV have the option to show a League One or League Two game instead of a Championship match if they wish).
10 CARABAO CUP GAMES A SEASON INCLUDING THE FINAL, ONE SEMI-FINAL AND TWO QUARTER-FINAL (ALL CARABAO CUP GAMES WILL BE ON SKY).
HIGHLIGHTS: Dedicated free-to-air highlights shows for both the EFL and Carabao Cup will continue to be shown on ITV. Mini highlights packages of all games will also be available soon after the final whistle on Sky Sports YouTube channel.
