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The Irish Sun
23-05-2025
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Major football tournament to be shown on Disney+ with 75 games aired as streaming platform agrees five-year deal
STREAMING giant Disney+ has won the broadcast rights for a huge European football competition. The subscription service will broadcast the Women's Champions League from the 2025-26 campaign, having agreed a five-year deal. 2 Disney+ has won the rights to the Women's Champions League Credit: Getty 2 Barcelona are the current holders Credit: AFP DAZN has kept the rights for the last four seasons, making coverage free-to-air on its app and YouTube channel. A few select fixtures have also been available to watch on TNT Sports in the United Kingdom. But the new deal, which is set to see every match broadcast live, marks the start of a new era. Disney+ EMEA general manager Karl Holmes said: "The UEFA Women's Champions League is the very best in football performance, dedication and passion. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL "Bringing this incredible tournament to our customers speaks to our commitment of delivering a huge range of bold and dynamic entertainment. "As women's football continues to grow with audiences worldwide, we're proud to offer the thrill and excitement of every single match to Disney+ customers across Europe, at no extra cost." Uefa marketing director Guy-Laurent Epstein added: "The UEFA Women's Champions League has seen exceptional growth in recent years, with record-breaking attendance, rising standards, and increasing global interest. "These new broadcast deals not only reflect this but are important milestones in the continued development of women's football in Europe, underscoring its growing importance and appeal to fans worldwide." Most read in Champions League CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS Disney+ will show all 75 matches from the competition across Europe, starting from October. Coverage will be produced by ESPN - Disney's multi-platform sports brand. Arsenal reveal new home kit for 2025/26 season with major change to badge and eye-watering price From next season the format of the Women's Champions League is set to change. The group stage will be replaced with a league table format - much like the men's competition. As things stand, 18 teams will enter the league with each side playing six games. At the end of the league phase, the top four teams will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. The clubs ranked fifth to 12th will compete in a two-legged knockout phase play-off, with the winner of each fixture progressing to the last-eight. And those placed 13th to 18th will be eliminated from the competition. The final of the 2024-25 Women's Champions League will take place on Saturday.
Finextra
20-05-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Visa enables Click to Pay on UEFA ticketing platforms
With less than 50 days to go until the UEFA Women's EURO 2025, ticket sales have already reached 550,000 surpassing the total sales for the UEFA Women's EURO 2022. 0 For the first time, fans will be able to purchase UEFA Women's Football tickets using Visa Click to Pay, which offers a seamless and secure online ticket purchasing experience for fans eager to support their teams in the UEFA Women's Champions League final and UEFA Women's EURO 2025. Available on UEFA's ticketing platform, this innovative card standard makes online shopping easier and safer by eliminating the need for manual card numbers entry. Click to Pay technology brings innovative security features such as tokenization, for which Visa was one of the pioneers. Replacing a consumer's card credentials with a unique, randomly generated token is among the most effective ways to prevent fraud online. It can increase successful transactions by over 10%[1] and reduce fraud by 91%[2] compared to entering card number manually. Kim Kadlec, CMO Visa Europe: 'At Visa and with our sponsorship platforms we continually strive to enhance the fan experience through our technology. We recognise the rise of digitally savvy fans who find it frustrating to enter card details. We are thrilled that Click to Pay is now available on the UEFA ticketing platform, simplifying online ticket purchases for the UEFA Women's Champions League final and UEFA Women's EURO matches'. Guy-Laurent Epstein, UEFA Marketing Director: 'As we look forward to record-breaking attendances at UEFA Women's EURO 2025 and a fantastic UEFA Women's Champions League final in Lisbon, providing fans with a frictionless way to secure their seats is essential. Seamless digital solutions like Visa Click to Pay make purchasing tickets more convenient and secure than ever. We are thrilled to work with Visa to bring this innovation to our ticketing platform, ensuring more supporters can experience the excitement of women's football firsthand." Visa became the first ever UEFA sponsor dedicated to women's football in 2018, having invested in the growth of women's football for more than 15 years. With a commitment to accelerate this growth even further, Visa commissioned a study to understand and demonstrate the growth and development of the game and to highlight the opportunities and evolution required to help the women's game reach its full potential. Additionally, through its Team Visa and The Second Half programmes, Visa provides athletes with the tools, resources and support they need to thrive, on and off the pitch.
Web Release
29-04-2025
- Business
- Web Release
beIN MEDIA GROUP Extends Rights Deal in MENA and Asia to Broadcast UEFA Club Competitions Until 2027
beIN MEDIA GROUP ('beIN') and UC3, the UEFA-ECA joint venture, have extended their long-standing media rights agreement, ensuring beIN SPORTS, the network's flagship sports channel, will continue to broadcast European football's premier club competitions live and exclusive across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia until 2027. The partnership between the leading global sports broadcaster and UEFA Club competitions dates back to 2012/13. As part of the extension, beIN will broadcast the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women's Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Conference League across 33 markets for a further three years, until the end of the 2026/27 season. The revamped format debuted this year across all three men's competitions featuring 36-team leagues rather than group stages bringing 20% more matches to beIN subscribers in 23 countries across the MENA region and 10 countries in Asia. The new format for the UEFA Women's Champions League, featuring 18-team leagues, will begin in the 2025/26 season. Mohammed Al-Subaie, CEO of beIN MENA, said: 'With UEFA's new competition format living up to its promise and producing huge matches from matchday one, we are delighted that beIN will continue to bring this new era to our subscribers in MENA and Asia. beIN has been home to elite European club football for more than a decade now, providing award-winning coverage of every game, insights from a wide range of world-class analysts and experts, and exclusive interviews with the most influential figures in the game. We are proud of our partnership with UC3 and to extend it once again is testament to our position as the global home of football.' Guy-Laurent Epstein, Co-Managing Director, UC3: 'We are delighted to extend our long-standing, fruitful partnership with beIN SPORTS. Thanks to their cutting-edge analysis and high-quality production levels, fans in 33 countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia will continue to enjoy the new-look UEFA men's club competitions in addition to the exciting, revamped UEFA Women's Champions League for the next three years.' This year's competitions are edging closer towards their respective finals, with the UEFA Champions League semi-final first-leg ties between Arsenal and Paris Saint Germain as well as Barcelona and Inter Milan taking place on 29 and 30 April. This will be followed by the UEFA Europa League semi-finals of Athletic Club vs Man United and Tottenham vs Bodø/Glimt, in addition to the UEFA Conference League semis which see Real Betis take on Fiorentina, as well as Djurgården and Chelsea on 1 May. As with this year, beIN will retain the exclusive rights to all matches across the MENA and Asia regions, broadcasting games simultaneously across its beIN SPORTS bouquet until the end of the 2027 season. The exclusive deal covers the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, with expanded coverage to bring back the UEFA Club Competitions on beIN in Indonesia and the Philippines. Over the past 11 years, beIN SPORTS has broadcast – live and exclusive – some of the most memorable moments of modern European club football, including Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning overhead kick in Real Madrid's victory over Juventus in the 2018 UEFA Champions League quarter-final, Lucas Moura's spectacular 96th minute winner against Ajax as Tottenham Hotspur came back from 0-3 down to qualify for the 2019 final, and eventual winners Bayern Munich's remarkable 8-2 win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the 2019-20 competition.
Zawya
29-04-2025
- Business
- Zawya
BeIN MEDIA GROUP extends rights deal in MENA and Asia to broadcast UEFA Club Competitions Until 2027
DOHA, LONDON, SINGAPORE: beIN MEDIA GROUP ('beIN') and UC3, the UEFA-ECA joint venture, have extended their long-standing media rights agreement, ensuring beIN SPORTS, the network's flagship sports channel, will continue to broadcast European football's premier club competitions live and exclusive across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia until 2027. The partnership between the leading global sports broadcaster and UEFA Club competitions dates back to 2012/13. As part of the extension, beIN will broadcast the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women's Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Conference League across 33 markets for a further three years, until the end of the 2026/27 season. The revamped format debuted this year across all three men's competitions featuring 36-team leagues rather than group stages bringing 20% more matches to beIN subscribers in 23 countries across the MENA region and 10 countries in Asia. The new format for the UEFA Women's Champions League, featuring 18-team leagues, will begin in the 2025/26 season. Mohammed Al-Subaie, CEO of beIN MENA, said: 'With UEFA's new competition format living up to its promise and producing huge matches from matchday one, we are delighted that beIN will continue to bring this new era to our subscribers in MENA and Asia. beIN has been home to elite European club football for more than a decade now, providing award-winning coverage of every game, insights from a wide range of world-class analysts and experts, and exclusive interviews with the most influential figures in the game. We are proud of our partnership with UC3 and to extend it once again is testament to our position as the global home of football.' Guy-Laurent Epstein, Co-Managing Director, UC3: 'We are delighted to extend our long-standing, fruitful partnership with beIN SPORTS. Thanks to their cutting-edge analysis and high-quality production levels, fans in 33 countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia will continue to enjoy the new-look UEFA men's club competitions in addition to the exciting, revamped UEFA Women's Champions League for the next three years.' This year's competitions are edging closer towards their respective finals, with the UEFA Champions League semi-final first-leg ties between Arsenal and Paris Saint Germain as well as Barcelona and Inter Milan taking place on 29 and 30 April. This will be followed by the UEFA Europa League semi-finals of Athletic Club vs Man United and Tottenham vs Bodø/Glimt, in addition to the UEFA Conference League semis which see Real Betis take on Fiorentina, as well as Djurgården and Chelsea on 1 May. As with this year, beIN will retain the exclusive rights to all matches across the MENA and Asia regions, broadcasting games simultaneously across its beIN SPORTS bouquet until the end of the 2027 season. The exclusive deal covers the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, with expanded coverage to bring back the UEFA Club Competitions on beIN in Indonesia and the Philippines. Over the past 11 years, beIN SPORTS has broadcast – live and exclusive – some of the most memorable moments of modern European club football, including Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning overhead kick in Real Madrid's victory over Juventus in the 2018 UEFA Champions League quarter-final, Lucas Moura's spectacular 96th minute winner against Ajax as Tottenham Hotspur came back from 0-3 down to qualify for the 2019 final, and eventual winners Bayern Munich's remarkable 8-2 win over Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the 2019-20 competition. About beIN MEDIA GROUP beIN MEDIA GROUP is a leading independent global media group and one of the foremost sports & entertainment networks in the world. The group distributes and produces an unrivalled array of entertainment, live sport and major international events across 5 continents, 40 countries and in 9 different languages spanning Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). beIN MEDIA GROUP's flagship sports network, beIN SPORTS, holds the single largest portfolio of sports rights of any global broadcaster; and through its iconic MIRAMAX film studio, beIN holds an extensive library of Hollywood blockbusters while having a growing presence in series and movies production and distribution, as well as in the digital space. beIN MEDIA GROUP acquired Digiturk, the leading pay-tv operator in Türkiye, in August 2016, and in 2022 launched its premium OTT service, TOD, across MENA and Türkiye.
Broadcast Pro
28-04-2025
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
BeIN Media Group extends UEFA club competitions broadcast deal through 2027
UEFA Champions League, Europa League, Conference League and Women's Champions League will continue airing on beIN Sports through 2027. BeIN Media Group and UC3, the joint venture between UEFA and the ECA, have renewed their long-standing media rights partnership, securing beIN Sports' exclusive broadcast of Europe's top club football competitions across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia until 2027. First established in the 2012/13 season, the collaboration ensures that beIN will continue to air the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women's Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League in 33 markets for the next three years. Under the new agreement, beIN subscribers in 23 MENA countries and 10 Asian nations will enjoy expanded coverage, with the recently revamped tournament formats delivering 20% more matches. The UEFA Women's Champions League will also adopt an expanded 18-team league format starting from the 2025/26 season. Commenting on the agreement, Mohammed Al-Subaie, CEO of beIN MENA, said: 'With UEFA's new competition format living up to its promise and producing huge matches from matchday one, we are delighted that beIN will continue to bring this new era to our subscribers in MENA and Asia. BeIN has been home to elite European club football for more than a decade now, providing award-winning coverage of every game, insights from a wide range of world-class analysts and experts, and exclusive interviews with the most influential figures in the game. We are proud of our partnership with UC3, and to extend it once again is testament to our position as the global home of football.' Guy-Laurent Epstein, Co-Managing Director, UC3, added: 'We are delighted to extend our long-standing, fruitful partnership with beIN Sports. Thanks to their cutting-edge analysis and high-quality production levels, fans in 33 countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia will continue to enjoy the new-look UEFA men's club competitions in addition to the exciting, revamped UEFA Women's Champions League for the next three years.' This year's competitions are approaching their climax, with the UEFA Champions League semi-finals featuring Arsenal vs. Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona vs. Inter Milan, followed by the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League semi-finals in early May. The renewed agreement ensures that beIN Sports will maintain exclusive rights to every match, broadcasting across its network in countries including Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand and others. The deal also restores UEFA club competition coverage to Indonesia and the Philippines. Over the past 11 years, beIN Sports has been the platform for some of modern European football's most unforgettable moments, such as Cristiano Ronaldo's overhead kick against Juventus and Tottenham's dramatic comeback against Ajax in the 2019 UEFA Champions League semi-final.
