Sky Sports has reaffirmed its commitment to the Premier League, signing a new four year deal starting in 2025/26 and raising the number of games to be shown to 270.
The deal is worth a staggering €6.7 Billion and will see Sky taking on four of the packages with 215 matches a season and the remaining 52 being shown on TNT Sports, which is part of the top Sky Sport package here and is also available on Sky Now.
Sky will continue to show Friday, Saturday and Monday evening games as well as Super Sunday fixtures at 4-30 and all the games played at 2 pm.
They will also have the rights to show all the games from three of the midweek rounds.
The BBC Have retained highlights rounds securing the future again of Match of the Day.
“This is a fantastic result for Sky customers, who will see a significant increase in the number of matches from the most iconic league in the world,” said Sky Group CEO Dana Strong.
“We are proud of our long history with the Premier League and look forward to delivering more engagement, entertainment, and innovation to the end of the decade.”
“Sky is the undisputed home for sport fans in the UK.”
That latter statement is proven by Sky continuing to sign up major sporting rights away from their mainstream Premier League and other football offerings.
The latest, and a new departure is the securing of rights to the One Championship which stages Martial Arts promotions across Kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA and other disciplines.
The first show will take place on Saturday 13th January.
This comes on top of the securing back of rights to 80 tournaments and 4,000 matches across the ATP and WTA tennis ecosystem.
Sky had been the go-to tennis channel in Ireland and Britain up until 2018 but in recent years the tournaments moved over to Amazon Prime.
“We are extremely excited by the commitment we are seeing from Sky to both men’s and women’s tennis,” said Mark Webster, CEO of the ATP Tour.
“ATP Media prides itself on producing and delivering the huge amount of world-class content generated on the ATP Tour and the three Sky entities have shown themselves to be the perfect partners to provide this content to our many tennis fans.”
“We share many of the same values, striving for innovation and excellence, and we hope this is just the start of an amazing new chapter for tennis in these Sky markets.”
The broadcaster remains the place for golf, NFL, cricket and many more sports and while it can be expensive to be a subscriber, the Sky Now offering allows more of an ability to dip in and out of coverage.
Sky Ireland is a partner of Sport for Business coverage of football.
