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IS THE UNDER 21 CHAMPIONSHIPS ON UK TV?
Is the Euro 2025 u21 championships on UK TV?
Yes! All games will be available through Channel 4.
England’s games will be on the main Channel 4 service along with other feature games including the quarter-finals and final.
Another 15 matches will be on the 4Seven channel including the group stage matches and semi-finals.
Other games will be on Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube channel.
When and where is it taking place?
It begins on June 11 and ends on June 28. It takes place in Slovakia. England’s first match is on June 12.
Who is presenting Channel 4’s under 21s coverage.
Jules Breach will be presenting the England and feature games. Other members of Channel 4’s line-up include Joe Cole and Jermain Defoe.
ENGLAND GAMES SWITCHING FROM CHANNEL 4 TO ITV
ENGLAND’S Euro 2024 warm-up game against Iceland last night marked the end of Channel 4’s two-year contract to show the national team’s matches.
The England friendlies, Euro and World Cup qualifiers and Nations League matches are switching to ITV which previously held the rights to the matches.
The four-year deal – struck between ITV and UEFA – covers matches both home and away.
ITV’s deal covers at least 40 England matches, working out at about ten matches per season.
ITV and BBC will continue to jointly share live UK TV rights for the Euros and World Cup.
EURO 2024 TV GAME DETAILS HERE
ITV’S LIVE ENGLAND DEAL 2024 TO JUNE 2028
ALL England’s home and away World Cup 2026 qualifiers.
ALL England’s home and away Euro 2028 qualifiers.
ALL England’s home and away Nations League games.
ALL England’s home and away friendly internationals
PREMIER LEAGUE TV RIGHTS GO UP FOR GRABS
The race for the next set of Premier League TV rights is underway with more live games than ever before being made available.
Broadcasters have been invited to bid for up to 270 matches per season, the most ever since the formation of the league.
They’ve been split into five separate packages of up to 65 games each with ALL the games moved back to a Sunday 2pm kick-off due to teams’ involvement in Europe to be broadcast live for the first time. Currently just one 2pm and 4.30pm match selected by the broadcasters can be screened on Sunday as part of the present deal.
It means up to seven games out of the ten on some weekends after European midweeks could be broadcast live.
A source at one broadcaster told Footie On TV: “In reality no extra games will be moved for TV purposes. The extra games being shown at 2pm on Sunday have only moved because teams have played in Europe on the midweek before, the only difference is they will now be shown live on TV. It was becoming increasingly infuriating for fans that these matches weren’t being shown on TV so it’s a sensible move by the Premier League.”
The other slots for TV games will remain the same with Saturday 12.30pm and 5.30pm kick-offs, Sundays 2pm and 4.30pm and Monday and Fridays 8pm. It’s thought all midweek and bank holiday matches will also be all screened live.
The Times also reports that every game on the final day of the season will be made available for broadcast.
The new contract will run for the four seasons from the 2025-26 campaign to 2028/29. Sky, TNT and Amazon hold the rights to live games until then.
Free-to-air highlights are also being auctioned off. Those rights are currently held by the BBC and shown through Match of the Day. Other “near-live” rights are also available, similar to the 5.15pm mini-highlights packages Sky currently hold and show via its app and YouTube channel along with its Game of the Day and Match Choice offerings on a Saturday night.
Sky and TNT will bid again for live rights. Amazon, which has already secured some Champions League games from next season, and sports streaming service DAZN are likely to bid for some packages too. The high cost of the rights could put them out of reach of free-to-air broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, but they could all battle it out for the highlights package.
ITV SNATCH LIVE ENGLAND GAMES FROM CHANNEL 4
ENGLAND’s Euro and World Cup qualifying matches, friendlies and Nations League games are to return to ITV after the broadcaster wrestled back the live TV rights from Channel 4.
From September next year ITV will show all England’s World Cup 2026 qualifiers, all their Euro 2028 qualifiers, all Nations League games and all friendlies.
The four-year deal – struck between ITV and UEFA – covers matches both home and away.
It means Channel 4’s two-year spell as the home of England’s friendlies and qualifying games will come to end next summer.
ITV’s deal covers at least 40 England matches, working out at about ten matches per season.
It’s not clear yet who will claim the UK rights to the same matches for Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. UEFA currently have a deal with pay TV channel Viaplay Sports, but it is set to shut down its UK operation leaving the rights up for grabs.
ITV’S LIVE ENGLAND DEAL 2024 TO JUNE 2028
ALL England’s home and away World Cup 2026 qualifiers.
ALL England’s home and away Euro 2028 qualifiers.
ALL England’s home and away Nations League games.
ALL England’s home and away friendly internationals
ITV currently share the live rights with the BBC to Euro 2024 and Euro 2028 as well as World Cup 2026.