Timeline of football on UK television

This is a timeline of the history of football on television in the UK.

1930s
  • 1937
    • 16 September – The BBC makes the world's first live television broadcast of a football match, a specially arranged local mirror match derby fixture between Arsenal and Arsenal reserves.[1]
  • 1938
    • 30 April – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the FA Cup for the first time.
  • 1939
    • 1 September – The BBC Television Service is suspended, owing to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War.

1940s
  • 1940 to 1945
    • No events due to television being closed for the duration of the Second World War.
  • 1946
    • 7 June – BBC Television broadcasts resume.
  • 1947
    • 8 February – A non-final match of the FA Cup is broadcast for the first time when the BBC shows the fifth round match between Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers.
  • 1948
    • No events.
  • 1949
    • No events.

1950s
  • 1950
    • No events.
  • 1951
    • No events.
  • 1952
    • No events.
  • 1953
    • No events.
  • 1954
    • 16 June-4 July – The FIFA World Cup is broadcast by the BBC for the first time with selected matches shown live.
  • 1955
    • The start of the European Cup sees both the BBC and the newly launched ITV cover the new midweek tournament from the outset.
  • 1956
    • No events.
  • 1957
    • No events.
  • 1958
    • 8–29 June – A greater range of matches compared to 1954 are shown thanks to the new Eurovision Network. Live games were shown on both the BBC and ITV, which was covering a World Cup for the first time.
  • 1959
    • No events.

1960s
  • 1960
    • ITV agrees a deal worth £150,000 with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the very first live league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road. The match kicked off at 6:50 pm with live coverage starting at 7:30pm under the title The Big Game. The game was played in front of a half-empty stadium.[2] ITV withdraws from the deal after first Arsenal and then Tottenham Hotspur refused them permission to shoot at their matches against Newcastle United and Aston Villa respectively, and when the Football League demanded a dramatic increase in player appearance payments.
  • 1961
    • No events.
  • 1962
    • 30 May-17 June – The 1962 World Cup in Chile is covered in delayed form by the BBC with film carried by air via the United States back to Britain. Matches are generally seen three days after they were played, though every match was covered by the BBC with commentary. ITV does not cover the tournament.
    • 22 September – ITV moves again into broadcasting football, albeit tentatively, when Anglia Television launches Match of the Week, which shows highlights of matches from around East Anglia.
  • 1963
    • No events.
  • 1964
    • 15 August – Scottish Television launches Scotsport Results to provide Scottish viewers with a round-up of the day's Scottish football. It is broadcast on Saturday teatimes at around 5pm during the football season.
    • 22 August – The first broadcast of the BBC's football television show Match of the Day. It is shown on the recently launched BBC Two.
  • 1965
    • 22 August – Football highlights start to be shown in the Midlands following the launch by ATV launching Star Soccer in October 1965. Also at around the same time, other regions launched their own football highlights programmes, including Tyne Tees, ABC and Southern Television.
  • 1966
  • 1967
    • No events.
  • 1968
    • 25 August – The first edition of The Big Match is broadcast. Originally just shown by London Weekend Television which had just gone on air.
    • ITV launches On the Ball, a lunchtime preview of the day's football fixtures. It is shown as a segment within World of Sport.
    • 2 November – The first colour edition of Match of the Day is shown on BBC 2.[3][4]
  • 1969
    • Slow motion replays are introduced into the BBC's football coverage.

1970s
  • 1970
    • No events.
  • 1971
    • No events.
  • 1972
    • No events.
  • 1973
    • No events.
  • 1974
  • 1975
    • 9 August – Sportscene is broadcast for the first time, mainly to show highlights of Scottish football although the programme also covers other sports.
    • 16 August – The first edition of Scoreboard is shown on BBC One Scotland. It is an opt-out from Grandstand to provide fuller coverage of the day's Scottish football news.
  • 1976
    • No events.
  • 1977
    • No events.
  • 1978
  • 1979
    • No events.

1980s
  • 1980
    • No events.
  • 1981
    • No events.
  • 1982
    • No events.
  • 1983
    • 2 October – ITV shows a live top flight football match for the first time since 1960. This marks the start of English football being shown on a national basis rather than on a regional basis, resulting in The Big Match becoming a fully national programme. The BBC also shows five live matches that season, on Friday evenings. The first is on 28 October.[6]
  • 1984
    • No events.
  • 1985
    • Domestic football is not shown on TV for the first half of the 1985/86 season.
    • 17 September – Screensport broadcasts the Football League Super Cup, a competition designed to compensate clubs banned from European competition following the Heysel Stadium disaster and at around the same time the channel starts broadcasting the Freight Rover Trophy.
    • 5 October – Following the demise of ITV's Saturday afternoon sports show World of Sport the previous week, its football preview show becomes a programme in its own right, called Saint & Greavsie, and a stand-alone results programme called Results Service is launched.
  • 1986
    • 11 January – Televised football returns when the BBC screens a live match from the third round of the FA Cup.
  • 1987
    • July – Screensport signs a deal with Thames Television, who were the Football League's agent for international distribution, to transmit 34 recorded matches via cable and satellite.[7] Thames produced its programme, called the Big League Soccer.[8] This resulted in Screensport being the only place where viewers could get extended highlights of the league during the 1987/88 season.
  • 1988
    • 14 May – The FA Cup Final is shown on both the BBC and ITV for the final time, thereby ending ITV's coverage of the competition until 1997.
    • 30 October – Following the signing of a new four-year deal to show exclusive live coverage of top flight English football, ITV begins showing a live game every Sunday afternoon.
    • S4C brings Serie A to British screens for the first time, albeit only in Wales. It shows Italy's top league for the next two seasons when the rights transfer to BSB.
    • The BBC becomes the sole broadcaster of the FA Cup and Match of the Day, which now only broadcasts on Cup weekends, is renamed Match of the Day: The Road to Wembley.
  • 1989
    • 7 January – BBC Scotland launches an extended Saturday teatime results programme. Rather than opting out of the last few minutes of Grandstand, the programme, called Afternoon Sportscene, runs for the entire duration of the time allocated for the day's results, starting at some point between 1 and 5 minutes before the network aired English counterpart Final Score.
    • 11 August – Friday Sportscene launches as a Friday night preview of the weekend's Scottish football.[9]

1990s
  • 1990
    • 18 August – The Charity Shield is shown live for the first time.
    • November – For the first time, a live game from the first two rounds of the FA Cup is shown live. The games are broadcast by BSB's Sports Channel.
  • 1991
    • No events.
  • 1992
    • 18 May – Sky outbids ITV for the live rights to the newly formed football Premier League. Sky bids £304 million, as opposed to ITV's £262 million.
    • Due to ITV losing the rights to top flight football, it decides to drop its preview show Saint & Greavsie and its results programme Results Service.
    • 15 August – Sky Sports launches Sports Saturday. The programme follows the same format as the BBC's Grandstand programme featuring a mix of sporting action, concluding with the day's football results.
    • 16 August – To mark the start of Sky Sports's coverage of the Premier League, the channel launches an afternoon-long football programme called Super Sunday.
    • 17 August – Monday Night Football makes its debut on Sky Sports as part of Sky's deal to show Premier League matches on Monday evenings. This is the first time that domestic football has been shown in the UK on Monday evenings.
    • August – ITV maintains their partnership with the Football League and begins showing matches from the second tier of English football. The coverage is shown on a regional basis with many English regions showing a live game on a Sunday afternoon.
    • 6 September – The first edition of Football Italia is broadcast as part of Channel 4's deal to show Serie A. The channel continues to show Italian football for the next ten years. At its peak in the 1990s, Football Italia attracted over 3 million viewers, and remains the most watched programme in the UK about a non-British domestic football league.[10]
    • 16 September – ITV shows its first matches from the newly formed UEFA Champions League, having purchased the rights following it being outbid for the rights to the Premier League.
  • 1993
  • 1994
    • 18 May – The BBC shows the 1994 European Cup Final. This brings to an end the BBC's association with football's premier European clubs tournament which had dated back to when the competition began almost four decades earlier.
  • 1995
    • The first edition of Saturday morning football-based comedy/talk show Soccer AM is broadcast on Sky Sports.
  • 1996
    • ITV loses the live rights to the Football League to Sky Sports. Consequently, ITV's main channel no longer shows domestic football on a live basis.
    • 16 August – Sky Sports 3 launches. The new channel becomes the showcase for Sky's coverage of the Football League. Sky Sports 3 also becomes the home to Sky's coverage of the Scottish Premier League. This is the first time that the SPL has been shown across the UK.
  • 1997
    • 31 May – Even though Channel 5 had said that it hadn't been intending to show live sport at peak time, it buys the rights to one of England's qualifying matches for the 1998 World Cup – an away match against Poland.
    • Autumn – Football on 5, which becomes a regular fixture as the channel purchases rights to UEFA Cup games and away qualifying matches involving the home nations, showing the former through the next decade.
  • 1998
    • 28 February – The 1998 Africa Cup of Nations Final between South Africa and Egypt is shown live on Channel 4. This is the first time that the tournament has been shown in the UK.
    • 15 August – On the first day of the 1998–99 football season, the first edition of Soccer Saturday is broadcast. This is the UK's first afternoon-long football scores service.
    • 5 September – ITV resurrects On the Ball, a lunchtime preview of the day's football fixtures.[11] ITV also resurrects The Big Match as the title for its football coverage.
    • 10 September – MUTV launches, becoming the first football club channel to start broadcasting in the UK.[12]
    • 1 October – Sky Digital launches and this is marked by the launch of the UK's first rolling sports news channel Sky Sports News with football news a mainstay of the new service.
    • 7 December – ITV launches ITV2 and part of its schedule is devoted to additional football coverage. Among the output is a Saturday afternoon scores service called Football First. This is ITV's first football results programme for six years.
  • 1999

2000s
  • 2000
    • 5–14 January – The BBC shows the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup. The Corporation shows live coverage of Manchester United's matches and the final.
    • 15 June – The latest contracts for football's Premier League are announced with the big news being that ITV has won the rights to the highlights package from the BBC at a reported cost of £183 million.[13] Sky holds onto exclusive live coverage for another three seasons.
    • September – ONsport launches. It replaces Champions on 28 and Champions on 99, which had reflected the channel numbers these were broadcast on. These channels were re-branded respectively as ONsport 1 and ONsport 2, after ONdigital had purchased rights to the ATP Masters Series tennis. Whilst ONsport 1 broadcasts 24 hours a day, ONsport 2 timeshared with Carlton Cinema and is only on air to provide coverage of an alternate Champions League match.
  • 2001
    • 30 May-10 June – Channel 5 broadcasts the FIFA Confederations Cup. Channel 5 also shows the next two tournaments.
    • 11 August –
      • The ITV Sport Channel launches. It replaces ONsport. The new channel is mostly focussed on football and comes after ONdigital successfully outbid BSkyB for the rights to show live matches from The Football League and the League Cup, for a massive £315m over three seasons, at least five times more than any broadcaster had previously bid for it.[14]
      • Football Focus and Final Score become programmes in their own right. Previously both had been a segment within Grandstand.
    • 13 August – Chelsea TV launches.
    • 18 August –
      • PremPlus launches. The channel shows pay-per-view coverage of the Premier League, bringing pay-per-view football to the Uk for the first time.
      • ITV begins its coverage of the Premier League when it launches its highlights programme The Premiership. The programme is shown in a primetime slot, airing at 7pm as opposed to the 10.30pm slot previously used by the BBC.[15] However ITV looses the rights to the rights to the FA Cup and the England football team return to the BBC with the Corporation showing live coverage of the national team for the first time in a decade.
      • ITV relaunches its live scores service from Football First to The Goal Rush.
    • September – The rights to the FA Cup and the England football team return to the BBC with the Corporation showing live coverage of the national team for the first time in a decade.
    • 17 November – Following disappointing viewing figures ITV ends its experiment with peak time Saturday night football and The Premiership reverts to the traditional 10.30pm slot.
  • 2002
    • Channel 4 decides to call full time on a decade of showing Serie A.[16]
    • 27 March – ITV Digital goes into administration with the cost of the Football League deal being the burden which used the company over the edge.[17]
    • 12 May – Following the collapse of ITV Digital, the ITV Sports Channel stops broadcasting.[18][19]
    • August – Coverage of the Football League and the League Cup reverts back to Sky Sports after a single season with ITV.
    • Channel 5 buys the rights to the Scottish League Cup and shows the tournament for the next two seasons.
  • 2003
    • May – ITV decides to stop showing a football scores service resulting in the demise of The Goal Rush.
    • Sky Sports shows games from the UEFA Champions League for the first time.
  • 2004
    • 15 May – Following its loss of Premier League highlights, The Premiership is shown for the final time. Also, On the Ball is discontinued for the same reason.[20]
    • 26 July – Celtic TV and Rangers TV launch.
    • August – Football First launches on Sky Sports. The programme allows viewers to choose the game they want to watch.
    • August – Irish sports broadcaster Setanta Sports takes over from the BBC as the UK rights holder of the Scottish Premier League.[21]
    • 14 August – To co-inside with the BBC regaining rights to highlights of the Premier League, BBC Sport launches an afternoon-long football scores service Score Interactive. The programme is broadcast from 14:30 until 18:00 on the BBC's interactive service, the BBC Red Button. The BBC had operated an in-vision scores service on Saturday afternoon the previous season.
    • 15 August – Match of the Day 2 launches to show highlights of Sunday Premier League matches. It is called MOTD2 due to it being shown on BBC Two.
  • 2005
    • No events.
  • 2006
    • 22 May – Sky launches its high definition service when Sky Sports 1 HD being broadcasting.
    • August – The European Union objects to what it saw as a monopoly on television football rights and demands the 2007 contract be split into separate packages of 23 games. Consequently, Sky wins four of the six available packages, with the other two taken by Setanta Sports.
    • 25 August – Setanta Sports brings regular non league football to television when it acquires the rights to the Football Conference. The deal also sees the Conference Cup renamed the Setanta Cup.[22]
    • September – Bravo and Setanta Sports take over coverage of Serie A under a joint agreement from 2005 to the end of the 2006–07 season.[23]
  • 2007
    • 6 May – PremPlus closes.
    • May – After 15 seasons, Monday Night Football ends its first run due to Sky losing the rights to Monday evening Premiership matches to Setanta Sports.
    • 11 August – Live Premier League matches are shown on a non Sky Sports channel for the first time when Setanta Sports shows the first of its 46 matches.Sky's monopoly on broadcasting the Premiership ends when it is announced that Setanta Sports will show 46 games per season starting in August2007. Sky will show the remaining 92 fixtures.[24]
    • September – Five gains the rights to broadcast Serie A highlights and live games in the 2007–08 season.[25][26] The show thus returned to terrestrial television and live games were shown weekly at 1:30pm UK time on Sundays,[27] Coverage is shown under the name of Football Italiano.
    • 20 September – LFC TV, a dedicated official channel for English football club Liverpool F.C., launches.[28]
    • 23 December – Bravo decides to drop its coverage of Serie A due to poor viewing figures. The league does continue to be shown by Setanta Sports.
  • 2008
    • 14 January – Arsenal TV launches.[29]
    • 17 May – Sky Sports shows FA Cup football for the final time, having covered the competition since BSB's Sports Channel launched in 1990.
    • 27 June – Five decides to end its coverage of Serie A after just a single season. The 2008/09 season is not shown in the UK, apart from a Milan derby which was shown by BBC Sport. ESPN picks up the rights beginning with the 2009/10 season.
    • September – ITV resumes showing the FA Cup and the England football team.[30] Consequently, the BBC has no rights to any form of coverage of the FA Cup for the very first time.
  • 2009
    • 22 June – It is announced that ESPN will take over the 46 games per season that were shown on Setanta Sports[31] after Setanta failed to make a £10m payment to the rights holder which meant that the rights returned to the Premier League which allowed it to sell those rights to another broadcaster.[32]
    • 23 June – Setanta Sports ceases broadcasting in the UK after going into administration.[33] also stop broadcasting and from this date, football club channels Celtic TV and Rangers TV, which were sold as part of the Setanta package, close although both later return as online only channels. Arsenal TV does continue but closes just over a month later.
    • 4 August – ESPN launches in the UK, picking up many of the rights previously held by Setanta Sports. These include the rights to the Premier League that Setanta had held.[34][35] It later dis many other football rights to its portfolio, including the Scottish Premier League, FA Cup,[36] European club football and the Europa League[37]
    • Live coverage of the Football League returns to British terrestrial television when the BBC securing 10 live Championship (second tier) games per season, as well as Football League highlights after Match of the Day. This is the first time that the BBC had the rights to the Football League, and ITV had lost them, in the Premier League era.[38]
    • September – Channel 5 becomes the lead broadcaster of the UEFA Europa League meaning it can show the entire tournament, including the final. Previously it had only been able to show the early rounds due to the BBC or ITV having the rights from the quarter-finals onwards.

2010s
  • 2010
    • 18 January – The BBC launches a regional football show to supplement its coverage of the Football League. Called Late Kick Off, the programmes follows a magazine-style format.[39]
    • August – Monday Night Football returns after Sky regains the rights to Monday night Premier League games.[40]
    • 19 August – Premier Sports announces that it has bought the live and exclusive television rights to thirty matches per season from the Conference National for the next three seasons.[41] The thirty matches selected for broadcast included all five Conference National play-offs.[42]
  • 2011
  • 2012
    • 9 May – Channel 5's fifteen years of showing Europe's second-tier football clubs competition ends when it shows live coverage of the 2012 UEFA Europa League Final. The primary rights transfer to ITV for the following three seasons with ESPN also broadcasting one match per round.[43]
    • 12 June – The announcement of the rights to the Premier League for the next three seasons reveals that BT has won the rights to 38 matches each season. These rights are currently held by ESPN UK.[44] The news followed speculation that ESPN was reconsidering its position in the UK.[45]
    • 28 July – Football on 5 ends after the channel stops showing live football following the transfer of the UEFA Europa League to ITV. The last game to be shown is a pre-season friendly.
    • August – Match of the Day 2 moves to BBC One.
  • 2013
    • January – Eurosport takes over as broadcaster of Serie A, opting to show a match at peacetime whereas Channel 4 had shown its live coverage in the afternoon.
    • August – BT Sport takes over as broadcaster of the Football Conference.[46]
    • 1 August – BT Sport launches.
    • 9 November – BT announces a £897 million deal with UEFA to broadcast the Champions League and Europa League exclusively on BT Sport from the 2015–16 season for three years. The deal will end two decades of the competition being broadcast free-to-air on ITV, although BT stated that the finals of both competitions and at least one match per season involving each participating British team would still be broadcast free-to-air.[47]
  • 2014
    • 12 August – Sky launches Sky Sports 5, primarily to broadcast European football.[48] Among the events shown on the new channel are the Eredivisie.
    • The BBC regains the rights to the FA Cup, which it shares with BT Sport.[49] However ITV retains the contract to show live coverage of the England football team.
    • Premier Sports beings Belgian's Pro League to British screens for the first time.
  • 2015
    • 25 May – Following the loss of rights to the Football League to Channel 5, The Football League Show and Late Kick Off end after six seasons. The principle reason for losing the rights because the BBC screened the highlights late at night whereas Channel 5 offered to show them at 9pm.[50]
    • 6 June – After 23 seasons, ITV's live broadcasting of the UEFA Champions League ends when it shows coverage of the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final. However it does continue to show highlights with all live coverage moving to BT Sport.[51]
    • 1 August – BT Sport launches a fourth channel – BT Sport Europe. The channel will be used to show its coverage of European football and European rugby union.
    • 2 August – BT Sport broadcasts the FA Community Shield for the first time.
    • 8 August – Football returns to Channel 5 when it takes over the contract to broadcast highlights of the Football League and the League Cup. It launches two new programmes under the revived Football on 5 banner. They are called The Championship and The Goal Rush. The programmes are broadcast from 9pm on Saturday evening.
    • September – BT Sport becomes the exclusive broadcaster of both of UEFA's club competitions. Highlights continue to be shown on ITV.
    • Sky starts showing live coverage of Major League Soccer.
  • 2016
    • 12 April – The Football Association confirms it has signed a new three-year contract with BT TV and the BBC to air coverage of the FA Cup, giving them the broadcasting rights to the competition until 2021. The deal will also see an increase in coverage of women's football by both broadcasters.[52][53]
    • 11 June – Premier Sports begins covering Copa América.[54]
    • 2 August – Premier Sports becomes one of the rights holders to the newly expanded Scottish Challenge Cup. It broadcasts games alongside other rights holders BBC Alba and S4C. Previously, BBC Alba had been the sole broadcaster of the competition.[55]
    • 4 August – BT Sport Europe is rebranded as BT Sport 3 so that it can show the full range of coverage from BT Sport.
    • 13 August – BT Sport launches its football scores programme BT Sport Score.
    • 19 August – Live Premier League football is shown on Friday evenings on a semi-regular basis for the first time as part of the new broadcasting deal. It is the first of ten games that Sky will broadcast on Friday evenings.[56]
    • 25 August – The BBC launches a new Premier League magazine show called The Premier League Show.
  • 2017
    • 18 July – Sky Sports is revamped with the numbered channels being replaced by sports-specific channels. These include two channels dedicated to football, a cricket channel and a golf channel. Other sports are moved to two new channels – Action and Arena – and a showcase channel called Sky Sports Main Event is launched which features simulcasts of the top events being show on Sky Sports that day.[57] Also, Sky Sports News drops the HQ label.
    • September – Sky shows the first of five matches a season from the NIFL Premiership.
  • 2018
    • 14 February – BT and Sky have agreed a £4.4bn three-year deal to show live Premiership football matches from 2019 to 2022, but the amount falls short of the £5.1bn deal struck in 2015.[58]
    • 6 May – Football League Tonight is broadcast for the final time, thereby ending Channel 5's three-year deal to show highlights of the English Football League.
    • 9 May – The final edition of The Premier League Show is broadcast.
    • Sky's 20+ years of coverage of La Liga ends when the rights transfer to Eleven Sports. It also looses its rights to the Eredivise and the Chinese Super League to the new channel.
    • 7 June – It is announced that Amazon Prime has been awarded the rights to livestream 20 Premier League matches a season for the next three seasons.[59]
    • August –
      • BT Sport becomes the exclusive holder of all rights to the UEFA Champions League. The deal includes live coverage and highlights. Consequently, for the first time, there is no free-to-air coverage of the competition.
      • Eleven Sports UK and Ireland launches following deals with European football leagues. The platform is a streaming service rather than a television channel.
    • 8 August – EFL on Quest is broadcast for the first time following the transfer of the highlights right to the English Football League to Quest.
    • 6 September – Sky Sports becomes the exclusive broadcaster of football's new UEFA Nations League tournament.
    • November – Premier Sports announced a 6-year deal with the Scottish FA starting in 2019 to show the Scottish Cup. The exclusive live rights include the first 2 picks from rounds 4, last 16 and quarter-finals and first pick of a semi-final. There are also options to show matches in rounds 1–3 and the final and other semi-final non-exclusively with the BBC.[60]
  • 2019
    • January – Just four months after going on air, Eleven Sports relinquishes most of its football rights, passing many of them onto Premier Sports.
    • 9 May – The BBC broadcasts the final edition of The Premier League Show is broadcast.
    • 30 June – After 18 seasons on air, Chelsea TV closes as a linear channel It continues as an on-line only service.
    • 3 December – Amazon Prime shows its first set of live Premier League football matches.
    • 8 December – BT Sport broadcasts the Scottish League Cup for the final time. The rights transfer to Premier Sports.

2020s
  • 2020
    • 13 January – Premier Sports launches La Liga TV, a full time channel showing Spain's La Liga.
    • February – FreeSports begins showing the Japanese J-league.[61]
    • 30 May – FreeSports begins showing the Polish Ekstraklasa and Danish Superliga.[62]
    • June – With the resumption of play in the 2019–20 Premier League due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the Premier League announces that it will show all remaining matches on British television, split primarily across Sky, BT, and Amazon. A large number of these matches are scheduled for free-to-air broadcasts, with Sky airing 25 on Pick, Amazon streaming its four matches on Twitch, and for the first time in league history, the BBC carries four live matches.[63][64][65]
    • 16 June – Eurosport begins showing Norway's premier domestic football competition Eliteserien.[66]
    • 1 August – Sky Sports becomes the exclusive broadcaster of live coverage of the Scottish Professional Football League.[67] In recent seasons Sky had shared the rights with BT Sport.
    • 8 September – It is announced that all of September's Premier League fixtures will be shown on TV due to fans not being into stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[68]
    • 6 October – Premier Sports takes over from BT Sport as broadcaster of the Scottish League Cup.[69]
    • 9 October – The Premier League announces that October's games not scheduled for TV broadcast will be shown on a pay-per-view basis on either Sky Sports Box Office or BT Sport Box Office.[70]
    • 13 November – The Premier League confirms that the broadcasting of matches via pay-per-view will end and that all games in December and January will be shown by either Sky Sports and BT Sport with one game also being shown on both Amazon Prime and the BBC.[71]
  • 2021
    • January – BBC Sport shows South American football for the first time when it broadcasts the semi-finals and final of the 2020 Copa Libertadores.
    • The BBC and ITV will become joint holders of rights to the FA Cup. Consequently, this will be the first time since 1988 that the competition has been shown fully on terrestrial television.

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