List of domestic football league broadcast deals by country
This is a list of television broadcast deals for association football leagues per country. The largest domestic TV deal is the Premier League, which has agreed a deal from 2019-2022 of an estimated £5bn for the three years for 200 live matches per season.[1] It is also the highest value deal per game, as leagues in Scotland and England do not show every match live and have a Saturday 3pm blackout. This is unusual as most other leagues broadcast every match live.
List of domestic broadcast deals in order of value
The following list is of Europe's top 20 Leagues, and a few other large leagues around the world.
Rank | League | Country | Level on Pyramid |
Value per season | Broadcaster(s) + number of live games | Length | Cite |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Premier League | England | 1 | £1,665,000,000
(Sky and BT £1.575bn, Amazon value £90m) |
Sky Sports - 128 Live Matches
BT Sport - 52 Live Matches Amazon Prime - 20 Live Matches |
2019-2022 | [1][2] |
2. | Ligue 1 | France Monaco |
1-2 | €1,172,000,000
(£1,038,000,000) |
Mediapro (Téléfoot) - 304 Live Matches, plus Supercup
BeIN Sports (sublicensed to Canal+ Sport) - 76 Live Matches |
|
[3][4] |
3. | Bundesliga | Germany | 1-2 | €1,160,000,000
(£1,030,000,000) |
Sky Deutschland - 263 Live Matches
Eurosport (sublicensed to DAZN from 2019) - 40 Live Friday Night Matches ZDF - 3 Live Matches (MD1 (first match), 17 and 18), plus Supercup |
2017-2021 | [5] |
4. | La Liga | Spain | 1-2 | €1,140,000,000
(£1,010,000,000) |
Telefonica (Movistar LaLiga):
Mediapro - (Gol)
|
2019-2022 | [6] |
5. | Serie A | Italy | 1 | €973,000,000
(£862,000,000) |
Sky Sport - 266 Live Matches
DAZN - 114 Live Matches |
2018-2021 | [7] |
6. | Süper Lig | Turkey | 1 | ₺3,394,000,000
(£393,000,000) |
Digiturk - All 306 Matches | 2017-2022 | [8] |
7. | Campeonato Série A | Brazil | 1 | R$1,230,000,000
(£250,000,000) |
Globosat - All Matches
(some matches subject to Localised blackouts) |
2016-2019 | [9] |
8. | English Football League | England | 2-4 | £119,000,000 | Sky Sports:
- Up to 118 Championship Matches - At least 20 League 1 and League 2 Matches - All 15 Playoffs - 12 League Cup + 3 EFL Trophy Matches |
2019-2024 | [10] |
9. | Primeira Liga | Portugal | 1 | €126,000,000
(£110,000,000) (est.) |
Sport TV - 289 Live Matches
Benfica TV - 17 Benfica Home Matches |
No Centralised TV
Deal - Clubs sell own rights. |
[11] |
10. | First Division A | Belgium | 1-2 | €103,000,000
(£93,239,205) |
Eleven Sports - all matches live | 2020-2025 | [12] |
First Division B | |||||||
Women's Super League | |||||||
11. | Major League Soccer | United States | 1 | $90,000,000
(£71,000,000) |
Fox Sports - 34+ Regular Season + 7-8 Post Season
ESPN - 34+ Regular Season + 7-8 Post Season Univision - 34+ Regular Season + 4 Post-Season |
2015-2022 | [13] |
12. | Eredivisie | Netherlands | 1 | €80,000,000
(£71,000,000) |
ESPN - 306 Live Matches + Playoffs | 2013-2025 | [14][15] |
13. | Primera División | Argentina | 1 | ARS$4,200,000,000
(£58,913,467) |
TNT Sports | 2017-2021 | [16] |
14. | Superleague | Greece | 1 | £50,000,000 (est.) | Nova Sports: | Rights are decentralized. | [11] |
15. | Ekstraklasa | Poland | 1 | PLN 250,000,000
(£49,600,000) |
Canal+ - All Matches Live
TVP Sport - One game per Matchday (simulcast with Canal+) |
2019-2023 | [17][18] |
16. | Allsvenskan | Sweden | 1-2 | SKr 602,000,000
(£48,000,000) |
Eurosport - 240 Live Top Flight Matches | 2019-2025 | [11] |
17. | Superliga | Denmark | 1-2 | DKr 394,000,000
(£46,000,000) |
TV3 - 178 Live Matches
Eurosport - 72 Live Matches |
2015-2021 | [11] |
18. | Eliteserien | Norway | 1-2 | NKr 400,000,000
(£37,000,000) |
Eurosport - 240 Live Top Flight Matches | 2017-2022 | [19] |
19. | Premiership | Scotland | 1 | £30,000,000 | Sky Sports - 48 Live Prem Matches + 6 Playoffs | 2020-2025 | [20] |
20. | Liga I | Romania | 1 | 164,000,000 lei
(£29,600,000) |
LookSport | 2019-2024 | [21] |
21. | Bundesliga | Austria | 1 | €31,500,000
(£28,400,000) |
Sky Osterreich: 188 Live Matches
A1 TV - 4 Live matches (sublicensed from Sky) |
2018-2022 | [22] |
22. | Super League | Switzerland | 1-2 | 30,000,000 CHF
(£25,400,000) |
Teleclub: All 180 Live Matches, Selected Challenge League matches live
SRG SSR: 36 Live Sunday Matches (shared+sublicensed from Teleclub) |
2017-2021 | [23] |
23. | Premier League | Russia | 1 | ₽1,950,000,000
(£22,810,000) |
Match TV - 240 Live Matches | 2018-2022 | [24] |
List in order of value per game, per league - Top 10 UEFA only [25]
Rank | League | Country | UEFA Rank | Number of Live Games | Value Per Game | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Premier League | England | 2nd | 200 | £8.75m | |
2. | Bundesliga | Germany | 4th | 306 | £3.36m (€3,86m) | |
3. | Ligue 1 | France | 5th | 380 | £2.68m (€3,075m) | |
4. | Serie A | Italy | 3rd | 380 | £2.27m (€2,61m) | |
5. | LigaBBVA | Spain | 1st | 380 | £1.94m (€2,23m) | |
6. | Süper Lig | Turkey | 11th | 306 | £1.28m (₺11,05m) | |
7. | Football League | England | N/A | 168 | £708,000 | |
8. | Ladbrokes Premiership | Scotland | 14th | 54 | £595,000 | |
9. | Liga NOS | Portugal | 7th | 306 | £360,000 (€413,000) (est.) | |
10. | Jupiler League | Belgium | 9th | 240 | £280,000 (€321,000) |
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