November 25 – Women’s Super League (WSL) is reportedly facing anxiety over its broadcast slots after a surprisingly low audience tuned in for Arsenal vs Chelsea earlier this month.
November 21 – Claiming ‘unprecedented interest’, UEFA’s joint venture commercial arm UC3 has unveiled a raft of new deals and broadcasters (preferred bidders) for its club competitions in Europe’s top five markets of UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
US media powerhouse Paramount is set to become a major player in the UEFA Champions League in the UK and Germany from 2027. In Spain telecoms giant Telefonica have scooped up rights to all UEFA’s club competitions,
November 21 – TNT Sports is leading the US production and broadcast of the next stop of the W7F 7 –a-side format in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where eight elite clubs from across North and South America will compete for a $5 million prize pool. DAZN is taking it to the world.
November 19 – TNT Sports, which a few years ago walked away from the US broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League in the US, is returning to the game with a new platform in the form of the World Sevens Football Tournament, a three-day 7v7 women’s only showcase that runs December 5-7 on TNT, truTV, and HBO Max.
The inaugural series made its debut in Portugal earlier this year, drawing fanfare, respectable TV numbers,
November 17 – Manchester United women’s boss Marc Skinner cut a frustrated figure after his side’s 3–0 loss to Manchester City in the Women’s Super League, and not just because his side had been outclassed.
November 14 – Major League Soccer’s controversial experiment with a separate Apple TV Season Pass is being shelved.
November 5 – The FA Cup is coming to Italian screens, after Warner Bros. Discovery and DAZN secured Italian broadcast rights to the world’s oldest football tournament until 2028.
November 3 – With FIFA and its broadcast partner DAZN gearing up for the relaunch of streaming service FIFA+, the European Leagues Association is entering the broadcast business with a channel on the OneFootball platform.
October 29 – In a relaunch of FIFA+, FIFA’s in-house platform will be streamed on DAZN from 2026, the world governing body confirmed on Wednesday. The announcement came following an apparent meeting between Infantino, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and DAZN owner Len Blatvanik.
October 23 – Gary Neville, England’s self-appointed moral arbiter on football governance, has found himself in the middle of more controversy with a Sky Bet ad he features in falling foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
October 24 – Amid rising tension between La Liga, its players, and its clubs, the Spanish league has managed to notch a small win or at least a moment of calm. Spain’s main public broadcaster, RTVE, has retained the domestic television rights to the Copa del Rey for the 2025–27 cycle.
October 21 – Paramount’s new CEO, David Ellison, has entered the corporation with a sharpened scalpel, and is preparing to axe between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in the United States as part of a sweeping $2 billion cost-cutting plan. Hollywood Bible Variety described the move as “a broad across-the-board culling,” leading many to fear for the future of football on the CBS Sports platform.
October 17 – The German Football Association (DFB) has announced a partnership with Abu Dhabi Media, giving the Abu Dhabi-based Sports channels exclusive broadcast rights to the DFB-Pokal across the MENA region through 2028.
October 15 – The Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) has opened a new communications chapter via the launch of a dedicated channel, FSHF TV, which this week premiered its first show titled ‘Në Shtëpinë e Futbollit’ (In the House of Football), hosted by Lenida Halilaj.
October 14 – UEFA has officially launched the media rights tenders for its men’s club competitions via its new partners UC3 and newly formed US agency Relevent Football Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Relevant, the sports marketing group behind the staging of the controversial LaLiga regular season match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami on December 20.