THE Women’s Super League returns in September and has now expanded from 12 to 14 teams.
Sky Sports will again show the majority of the games (163 in total) although a selection of games will also be free-to-air on BBC One, Two and BBC iPlayer. Some games will also stream free on YouTube.
The controversial practice of multiple matches kicking off on Sundays at 12noon has been dropped after being unpopular with fans and leading to poor TV viewing figures. Matches will this season be spread over several time slots.
Sky’s live games will generally be shown on Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 12.45pm, Sundays at 12noon and 6pm. The BBC games will usually be in Saturday 12.30pm and Sunday 2.30pm time slots.
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.
