Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand
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Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand include:
Association football[edit]
Leagues[edit]
- A-League Men: Sky Sport
- A-League Women: Sky Sport
- J-League: YouTube
- K League: K League TV
- English Premier League: Sky Sport[1]
- English Football Leagues: beIN Sports
- FA Women's Super League: TVNZ
- La Liga (TBA)
- La Liga 2: YouTube (regular season) & beIN Sports (play-offs)
- Serie A: beIN Sports
- Ligue 1: beIN Sports
- New Zealand National League: FIFA+
- New Zealand Women's National League: FIFA+
- New Zealand Northern League, Central League, Southern League: New Zealand Football YouTube Channel (selected matches)
- Bundesliga: beIN Sports
- Belgian First Division: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Scottish Premiership: beIN Sports
- Major League Soccer: MLS Season Pass (until 2032)
- Argentine Primera División: Fanatiz, OneFootball
- Danish Superliga: OneFootball
- Campeonato Brasileiro: Fanatiz
- Chinese Super League: OneFootball
- Indian Super League: OneFootball
- Greek Super League: OneFootball
- Ekstraklasa: OneFootball
- Eliteserien: OneFootball
- Czech First League: OneFootball
- Swiss Super League: OneFootball
- Austrian Football Bundesliga: OneFootball
Domestic cups[edit]
- English FA Cup: Sky Sport
- FA Community Shield: Sky Sport
- EFL Cup: beIN Sports
- Belgian Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Belgian Super Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Scottish Challenge Cup: beIN Sports
- Australia Cup: My Football YouTube Channel
- Chatham Cup: FIFA+ (selected matches)
- Kate Sheppard Cup: FIFA+ (selected matches)
- Kazakhstan Cup: OneFootball
International club competitions[edit]
- UEFA Champions League: beIN Sports (through 2024)
- UEFA Europa League: beIN Sports (through 2024)
- UEFA Europa Conference League: beIN Sports (through 2024)
- UEFA Super Cup: beIN Sports (through 2023)
- UEFA Women's Champions League: DAZN and YouTube
- UEFA Youth League: beIN Sports
- OFC Champions League: FIFA+
- CONMEBOL Libertadores: beIN Sports
- CONMEBOL Sudamericana: beIN Sports
- CONMEBOL Recopa: beIN Sports
- CONCACAF Champions Cup: CONCACAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Champions League: CAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Confederation Cup: CAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Super Cup: CAF YouTube Channel
- AFC Champions League: TBA
- AFC Cup: TBA
- FIFA Club World Cup: Sky Sport (2022 and 2023)
- Florida Cup: beIN Sports
- Toulon Tournament: ESPN
International matches[edit]
- All Whites: FIFA+
- Football Ferns: FIFA+
- World Cup Qualifying
- European Championship qualifying: Sky Sport
- Women's Olympic qualifying:
International tournaments[edit]
- FIFA World Cups (2021 - 2023)
- Men's:
- Men's Football World Cup: Sky Sport, TVNZ (Selected matches only)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: Sky Sport
- FIFA U-17 World Cup: Sky Sport
- Women's:
- Women's Football World Cup: Sky Sport, TVNZ (Selected matches only)
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
- FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
- Men's:
- UEFA
- Copa America 2024: TBA
- CONCACAF Gold Cup 2023: TBA
- Asian Cup 2023: Sky Sport
- African Cup of Nations 2023: beIN Sports
- OFC Nations Cup 2024: Sky Sport
Beach soccer[edit]
Futsal[edit]
Leagues[edit]
- New Zealand Futsal Super League: FIFA+
International tournaments[edit]
- FIFA Futsal World Cup: Sky Sport
- UEFA Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv
- UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv
- UEFA Women's Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv (final four only)
International club competitions[edit]
- UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv (final four only)
Athletics[edit]
- IAAF Golden League:
- Sky Sport: Highlights, plus some live coverage.
- Grenada Invitational: ESPN
Australian rules[edit]
- Australian Football League
- Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.
- AFL Women's
- Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.
Badminton[edit]
- BWF: YouTube
Baseball[edit]
- Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
- College baseball: ESPN
- Little League World Series: ESPN
- World Baseball Classic: ESPN
Basketball[edit]
- National Basketball League: Sky Sport
- National Basketball League (Australia):
- Sky Sport has one game every Thursday night; live coverage of Semifinal, and Grand Final.
- National Basketball Association: ESPN, NBA TV International
- Women's National Basketball Association: ESPN
- College basketball: ESPN
- NBA Summer League: ESPN
- NBA G League: ESPN
- The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
- Basketball Africa League: ESPN
Boxing[edit]
- Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- Golden Boy: DAZN
- Matchroom: DAZN
- Premier Boxing Champions: Sky Arena (PPV fights)
Cricket[edit]
- New Zealand Cricket - Home Domestic and International Cricket:
- Spark Sport (2020-July 2023), TVNZ (July 2023-2026)
- Home internationals involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams
- Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash
- The Ford Trophy final
- Limited free-to-air rights: TVNZ (2020-July 2023): Live coverage of the first T20 International of a home series involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams. Live coverage of most matches from the Super Smash domestic competitions.
- Spark Sport (2020-July 2023), TVNZ (July 2023-2026)
- England and Wales Cricket Board
- Spark Sport (2020- July 2023), TVNZ (July-September 2023)
- Home internationals
- The Hundred
- Vitality Blast
- Royal London One-Day Cup final
- Spark Sport (2020- July 2023), TVNZ (July-September 2023)
- ICC
- Sky Sport: All major ICC events
- Prime: Live coverage of a selection matches involving the New Zealand cricket team. Highlights of other events or matches.
- Spark Sport: Highlights of all major ICC events (2019-July 2023)
- Other Overseas cricket:
- Sky Sport:
- International fixtures - Cricket Australia, BCCI (India), Cricket South Africa, Cricket West Indies and Pakistan Cricket Board.
- Australian domestic competitions: Sheffield Shield, One-Day Cup, Women's National Cricket League, Big Bash League and Women's Big Bash League.
- Caribbean Premier League, Super50 Cup, Pakistan Super League and Major League Cricket.
- Prime: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
- ThreeNow:
- Sky Sport:
Cycling[edit]
Esports[edit]
Extreme Sports[edit]
Field hockey[edit]
- Men's and Women's Hockey World Cups: Spark Sport
- Men's and Women's Hockey Pro Leagues: Spark Sport
Golf[edit]
- Australian Open: Spark Sport (2019–2020)
- The Open Championship: Sky Sport
- Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
- European Tour: Sky Sport
- PGA Tour: Sky Sport
- U.S. Open: Sky Sport
- U.S. Masters: Sky Sport
- New Zealand PGA Championship: TV3
- World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
- World Cup : Sky Sport
- New Zealand Open : Sky Sport
- LPGA Tour : SKY Sport (New Zealand)
- Evian Masters : Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Gridiron football[edit]
Horse-racing[edit]
- Kentucky Derby: ESPN
- Preakness Stakes: ESPN
- Belmont Stakes: ESPN
- All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
- All international race meetings: Trackside
- Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: Prime
- Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TVNZ
- Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
Ice Hockey[edit]
Kickboxing[edit]
- King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- King in the Ring: TVNZ
Lacrosse[edit]
Mixed Martial Arts[edit]
- Bushido MMA: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- Ultimate Fighting Championship: ESPN (Fight Night and PPV preliminaries), Sky Arena (PPVs)
- ONE Championship: Triller TV
Motor racing[edit]
- FIA Formula One: Sky Sport
- Porsche Supercup: Sky Sport
- Formula 2: Sky Sport
- Formula 3: Sky Sport
- Formula E: Sky Sport (live), Three (highlights)
- IndyCar Series: Sky Sport
- AMA Supercross Championship: ESPN
- Supercars Championship: Sky Sport (Includes support categories)
- Dunlop Super2 Series: Sky Sport (Live with Supercars Championship) Three (Delayed)
- NZ Touring Cars Championship: Three (delayed coverage)
- DTM: Three (highlights)
- WTCC: Three (highlights)
- World Rally Championship: TVNZ
- World Rallycross Championship: Spark Sport
- MotoGP: ThreeNow
- Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
- Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
- NASCAR ThreeNow
- BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
- W Series: Sky Sport
Multi-discipline events[edit]
- Commonwealth Games: TVNZ (2018); Sky Sport and Prime (2022 and 2026)
- Summer Olympics: Sky Sport and TVNZ (2020)
- Winter Olympics: Sky Sport and Prime
- Paralympics Games: TVNZ
- Special Olympics World Games: ESPN
Netball[edit]
- ANZ Premiership:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games, elimination final and grand final)
- 2019 Netball World Cup:
- International Netball:
- Sky Sport (live coverage)
- National Netball League:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
- Suncorp Super Netball:
- Spark Sport (live coverage of all games)
Poker[edit]
Rowing[edit]
Rugby league[edit]
- National Rugby League:
- New South Wales Cup:
- Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
- NZRL National Premiership
- State of Origin:
- Super League:
- Rugby League Challenge Cup:
- Four Nations:
Rugby union[edit]
- Rugby World Cup: Sky Sport
- The Rugby Championship:
- Super Rugby:
- College 1st XV coverage
- Sky Sport: Live and delayed coverage and highlights of televised matches during the week.
- Currie Cup: Sky Sport
- European Rugby Champions Cup: Spark Sport
- National Provincial Championship:
- Six Nations Championship: Sky Sport
- Gallagher Premiership: Sky Sport
Softball[edit]
Swimming[edit]
Tennis[edit]
- Australian Open: Sky Sport
- French Open: Sky Sport
- The Championships, Wimbledon: Sky Sport[3]
- U.S. Open: Spark Sport
- ATP Finals: Sky Sport
- ATP Tour Masters 1000: Sky Sport
- ATP Tour 500: Sky Sport
- Next Generation ATP Finals: Sky Sport
- WTA Tour: Spark Sport
- ASB Classic: Sky Sport[4]
- Laver Cup: Sky Sport
- Davis Cup: Sky Sport
- Fed Cup: Sky Sport
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Great news for football fans – the Premier League is coming back to Sky". SKY New Zealand. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ "Whakaata Māori becomes first indigenous broadcaster for Softball World Cup 2022". New Zealand Herald. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
- ^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.
- ^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.