Laura Woods has been confirmed at the host of ITV’s coverage of England women’s senior team’s tournament qualifiers and friendlies.
ITV have struck a four-year deal to show the Lionesses’ bid to reach both the World Cup and Euros as well as friendly games which will be shown across ITV, ITV 4 and ITV Hub from this Friday.
It adds to a busy schedule for the award-winning Woods who will also continue to present on TalkSPORT, Sky Sports and DAZN’s boxing coverage.
ITV have confirmed their coverage of England Women will also feature Ian Wright, Eni Aluko and Emma Hayes. See Hutchinson, who has joined Sky’s Premier League and Women’s Super League coverage this season, will be the commentator.
England v North Macedonia is at 6.15pm on Friday, September 17 on ITV 4 with Luxembourg v England at 6.45pm on Tuesday, September 21.
Former England international Alex Scott is to host Goals on Sunday alongside Chris Kamara as Sky Sports unveils it biggest-ever season of live Premier League football.
Scott, who was part of Sky’s team last season and the BBC’s summer World Cup coverage, takes over from Ben Shephard who’s decided to step down from the role to spend more time with his family. The show will air in a new regular 11.30am slot.
Sky Sports will screen more live Premier League matches than ever before (128 games a season) taking on the Saturday tea-time slot and also some 7.45pm Saturday matches. Crucially Sky have every weekend first pick from the league.
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Friday Night Football, Super Sunday (new kick-off times of 2pm and 4.30pm) and Monday Night Football continue as usual. David Jones is back to host the Sunday and Monday matches with Kelly Cates on duty for the Friday and Saturday offerings.
Saturday mornings have been tweaked with preview show Saturday Social airing at 9.30am with Adam Smith and Joe Thomlinson and a new time for Fenners and the gang and Soccer AM from 10.30am.
EFL games will now air on Saturday lunchtimes (as well as regular Friday slots and some Sunday and Monday kicks-offs). Sky will screen more live EFL matches than ever before with entire midweek rounds being available on the red button and app like last season.
Scott Minto and David Prutton will again host the action for the Championship and Leagues One and Two while Caroline Barker is a new addition to the EFL coverage as pitch-side reporter.
Laura Woods is to take over as the host of Sky’s Carabao Cup coverage with live games from the first round to the final.
Sky’s Scottish coverage gets a revamp with longer build-ups to games and new signing Eilidh Barbour anchoring coverage. Sky will again share coverage of the SPFL with BT Sport, but crucially has exclusive rights to the Old Firm games. Sky takes over as the exclusive home of live SPFL games from the 2020-21 season.