Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand
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Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand include:
Association football
Leagues
- A-League Men: Sky Sport
- A-League Women: Sky Sport
- J-League: YouTube
- K League: K League TV
- English Premier League: Sky Sport[1]
- beIN Sports
- FA Women's Super League: TVNZ
- La Liga (TBA)
- beIN Sports(play-offs)
- Serie A: beIN Sports
- 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)
- beIN Sports
- Belgian First Division: ESPN(only on Watch ESPN)
- 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
- English FA Cup: Sky Sport
- FA Community Shield: Sky Sport
- beIN Sports
- Belgian Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Belgian Super Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- 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
- 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+
- beIN Sports
- beIN Sports
- 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
- All Whites: FIFA+
- Football Ferns: FIFA+
- World Cup Qualifying
- European Championship qualifying: Sky Sport
- Women's Olympic qualifying:
International tournaments
- 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
- beIN Sports
- OFC Nations Cup 2024: Sky Sport
Beach soccer
Futsal
Leagues
- New Zealand Futsal Super League: FIFA+
International tournaments
- 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
- UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv (final four only)
Athletics
- IAAF Golden League:
- Sky Sport: Highlights, plus some live coverage.
- Grenada Invitational: ESPN
Australian rules
- 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
- BWF: YouTube
Baseball
- Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
- College baseball: ESPN
- Little League World Series: ESPN
- World Baseball Classic: ESPN
Basketball
- 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
- Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- Golden Boy: DAZN
- Matchroom: DAZN
- Premier Boxing Champions: Sky Arena (PPV fights)
Cricket
- 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
- Women's Super Smash
- The Ford Trophyfinal
- 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.
- England and Wales Cricket Board
- Spark Sport (2020- July 2023), TVNZ(July-September 2023)
- Home internationals
- The Hundred
- Vitality Blast
- Royal London One-Day Cupfinal
- 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: .
- 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
Esports
Extreme Sports
Field hockey
- Spark Sport
- Spark Sport
Golf
- 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
- TV3
- World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
- World Cup : Sky Sport
- New Zealand Open : Sky Sport
- SKY Sport (New Zealand)
- Evian Masters : Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Gridiron football
Horse-racing
- 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
Kickboxing
- King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- King in the Ring: TVNZ
Lacrosse
Mixed Martial Arts
- 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
- 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)
- (Delayed)
- NZ Touring Cars Championship: Three (delayed coverage)
- DTM: Three (highlights)
- WTCC: Three (highlights)
- World Rally Championship: TVNZ
- Spark Sport
- ThreeNow
- Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
- Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
- ThreeNow
- BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
- W Series: Sky Sport
Multi-discipline events
- Prime(2022 and 2026)
- (2020)
- Prime
- Paralympics Games: TVNZ
- Special Olympics World Games: ESPN
Netball
- 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
Rowing
- World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
- Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport
Rugby league
- National Rugby League:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of Warriors games
- New South Wales Cup:
- Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
- NZRL National Premiership
- State of Origin:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage
- Super League:
- Rugby League Challenge Cup:
- Four Nations:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games
Rugby union
- Rugby World Cup: Sky Sport
- The Rugby Championship:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
- Super Rugby:
- Sky Sport: live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of one game per weekend on Saturday Night. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
- College 1st XV coverage
- Sky Sport: Live and delayed coverage and highlights of televised matches during the week.
- Currie Cup: Sky Sport
- Spark Sport
- National Provincial Championship:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Live and delayed coverage of selected games.
- Six Nations Championship: Sky Sport
- Gallagher Premiership: Sky Sport
Softball
- Men's Softball World Championship: Whakaata Māori[2]
Swimming
- FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport
Tennis
- Australian Open: Sky Sport
- French Open: Sky Sport
- Spark Sport
- ATP Finals: Sky Sport
- ATP Tour Masters 1000: Sky Sport
- ATP Tour 500: Sky Sport
- Next Generation ATP Finals: Sky Sport
- Spark Sport
- ASB Classic: Sky Sport[4]
- Laver Cup: Sky Sport
- Davis Cup: Sky Sport
- Fed Cup: Sky Sport
See also
References
- ^ "Great news for football fans – the Premier League is coming back to Sky". SKY New Zealand. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 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.