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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PREMIER LEAGUE’S BIGGEST-EVER UK TV DEAL

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SKY SPORTS are the big winners in the multi-billion pound auction for exclusive live Premier League TV rights after securing up to 100 extra games a season in a new deal.

Under the four-year agreement, Sky will show at least 215 matches a season including for the first time all games rescheduled to 2pm on a Sunday due to clubs’ European commitments. It means 80 per cent of the live televised games will be on Sky.

The new contract, which doesn’t start until the 2025/26 season, gives Sky all first-pick matches and means they retain their Friday and Monday night 8pm games, Saturday 5.30pm and the big Super Sunday 4.30pm and 2pm matches.

In addition to the rescheduled Sunday 2pm matches, they’ve added three midweek rounds, some Boxing Day games.

And for the first time all TEN final day games will be shown live on Sky Sports at the same time.

TNT Sports has retained its Saturday 12.30pm games and will show a total of 52 matches a season including some midweek rounds.

Match of the Day is secure as the home of FREE-TO-AIR highlights with the BBC retaining that package as well as adding extra digital rights for its online platforms.

The record-breaking deal is worth £6.7billion and has been described by the Premier League as the “largest sports media rights deal ever concluded in the UK”.

Amazon Prime Video – which currently shows two entire fixture rounds of 20 games a season – has lost rights to all its games.

Sky’s Premier League deal comes after the broadcaster also secured a huge new deal to show a massive increase in EFL TV games from next season HERE

PREMIER LEAGUE TV RIGHTS FROM 2025-26 SEASON FOR FOUR YEARS

SKY SPORTS

  • At least 215 games each season
  • ALL first pick matches each week
  • Games at 8pm Friday and Monday (including more than previously), Saturdays 5.30pm, Sundays at 2pm and 4.30pm
  • ALL games rescheduled to 2pm on Sundays due to European midweeks – Sky will show multiple matches at the same time in this slot.
  • EVERY game from three midweek rounds of games.
  • ALL ten final day matches for the first time.
  • “Most of the festive fixtures” with Boxing Day Premier League action returning to Sky.

TNT SPORTS

  • 52 live games a season
  • Saturday 12.30pm kick-offs
  • EVERY game from two entire midweek fixture rounds.

BBC SPORT

  • FREE-TO-AIR highlights through Match of the Day
  • Extra digital rights for BBC online platforms.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SKY SPORTS’ MASSIVE NEW EFL TV DEAL HERE

PREMIER LEAGUE TV RIGHTS GO UP FOR GRABS

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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.

HOW TO SEE EVERTON V SOUTHAMPTON FOR FREE

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Amazon are screening four Premier League re-start games – and they are all being made available free-to-air.

Unlike their December games, you won’t need to have a Prime subscription to receive the games, they will screen free. As well as using Prime, Amazon will also stream them for free on gaming platform Twitch.

You can see the EVERTON V SOUTHAMPTON game LIVE HERE

AMAZON PRIME PREMIER LEAGUE LIVE GAMES

THURS JULY 9: 6pm Everton v Southampton

SAT JULY 11: 12.30pm Watford v Newcastle

Full details of all confirmed live Premier League re-start games can be found HERE

WHO’S SHOWING WHAT?

SKY SPORTS

64 games LIVE (39 subscription only on Sky Sports, 25 simulcast FREE-TO-AIR on Pick TV on FREEVIEW)

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4 games LIVE (all FREE-TO-AIR)

BT SPORT

20 games LIVE (subscription-only)

AMAZON PRIME

4 games LIVE (all FREE-TO-AIR)

WHAT ARE THE KICK-OFF TIMES?

WEEKEND GAMES

Friday 8pm

Saturday 12.30pm/3pm/5.30pm/8pm

Sunday 12noon/2pm/4.30pm/7pm

Monday 8pm

MIDWEEK GAMES

Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 6pm and 8.15pm

How to watch the Premier League on Amazon Prime Video

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>What games have Amazon Prime Video got?

Amazon have the rights to 20 Premier League matches – that’s every game from this midweek round and every match from the Boxing Day round. It’s the first time the Premier League has made an entire match round available to show live on TV.

Amazon’s deal to show the games runs for the next three seasons.

>Why are none of the games available on Sky and BT?

The two sets of matches were in one package put out by the Premier League for broadcasters to bid for. Initially, the package didn’t sell and had to put up for auction again which was when Amazon won the rights. It’s not clear whether Sky or BT were outbid or whether they didn’t value the rights having already scooped up the key packages they wanted of games.

BT has the rights to show all New Year’s Day games in the Premier League while every game from the entire winter break ‘split weekend’ will be shown across Sky and BT over  two weekends.

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> Who’s presenting Amazon’s coverage and who are their pundits?

In a huge operation, Amazon are promising to have a pitch-side presentation team at all 20 of their games with coverage starting from 6.30pm for the midweek matches.

On the midweek Wednesday and Boxing Day will have a studio-based goals show showing all the action as it happens.

Sign up for a 30-day trial HERE and see the games for FREE.

Amazon’s presenters, pundits and commentators are:

  • Adam Hunt
  • Alan Shearer
  • Alex Scott
  • Ally McCoist
  • Andy Townsend
  • Catherine Whitaker
  • Clive Tyldesley
  • Connor McNamara
  • Darrell Currie
  • Derek Rae
  • Dermot Gallagher
  • Dion Dublin
  • Eilidh Barbour
  • Eni Aluko
  • Gabby Logan
  • Glenn Hoddle
  • Graeme Le Saux
  • Guy Mowbray
  • Harry Redknapp
  • Ian Darke
  • Jermaine Jenas
  • Jim Rosenthal
  • Joe Cole
  • Jon Champion
  • Karthi Gnanasegaram
  • Kevin Kilbane
  • Lee Dixon
  • Les Ferdinand
  • Lynsey Hooper
  • Marcus Buckland
  • Matt Holland
  • Matt Smith
  • Michael Owen
  • Owen Hargreaves
  • Peter Crouch
  • Peter Schmeichel
  • Robbie Savage
  • Roberto Martinez
  • Seema Jaswal
  • Steve Bower
  • Sue Smith
  • Thierry Henry
  • Tim Sherwood

The match coverage will be produced by the production teams who are responsible for BT Sport’s football coverage.

 > Can I see these games on a TV or will it just be streaming online via a laptop, phone or tablet?

No, the matches are available on TV. The Prime Video app is available on a number of smart TVs while plugging in a Fire TV stick or Cube streams the service on your TV set.

Some bars will also be showing some of Amazon’s games.

All games will be in HD with some in Ultra HD.

Highlights will be on Match of the Day on Wednesday (10.45pm BBC One) and on Boxing Day.

> If I sign up for the FREE trial will I get stuck with a Prime subscription?

No, clicking on this LINK will get you a 30-day trial which covers both this midweek and Boxing Day matches.

If you don’t want to continue with Prime with a subscription you can cancel. The Prime subscription auto-renews unless you cancel before the end of your 30 days.

However, if you wish to continue do nothing and your subscription will continue and you will be charged a monthly fee (if that’s the option you’ve selected), but again you can cancel at anytime.

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BT Sport hold on to Champions League rights

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BT Sport has held on to exclusive live and highlights rights for the Champions League and Europa League after beating off competition from Sky and ITV.

A new three-year-deal will see every game shown from the Champions and Europa Leagues and the new Europa Conference League.

It’s a crucial deal for BT which would have been left with just Premier League games as its main footie offering if it had lost the Europeans rights with the broadcaster’s contracts to show the Scottish Premiership and FA Cup not being renewed.

The deal, worth £400million a season, will see BT Sport show:

  • 420 games a season from the Champions, Europa and new Conference League
  • Highlights will also be exclusively on BT Sport, although goals, match highlights packages and key moments will be available free via BT’s social media, online site, digital platforms and app.
  • The finals of all thee competitions will again be available FREE-TO-AIR on BT’s various digital platforms including YouTube and the app.

The Champions League has been on BT since 2015 and exclusively since last season.

Sky and ITV are believed to have teamed up to try and snatch the rights from BT. However, neither was willing to match what BT were prepared to pay. The rights are more significant to BT than Sky as Sky has a much bigger portfolio of domestic football rights with the pick of the Premier League matches, the EFL and Carabao Cup and from next season the Scottish Premiership exclusively.

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