Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand

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
* AFC: Sky Sport
* CAF: FIFA+
* CONCACAF: TBA
* CONMEBOL: Fanatiz (All matches live, exc. Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil home matches) and FIFA+ (four matches per-month)
* OFC: FIFA+
* UEFA: Sky Sport
* European Championship qualifying: Sky Sport
* Women's Olympic qualifying:
* OFC: FIFA+

### 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
* UEFA
* UEFA Euro 2024: TVNZ
* UEFA Women's Euro 2022: UEFA.tv
* UEFA Nations League: Sky Sport
* 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]

* FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: FIFA+

### 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.
* 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
* 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.
* Indian Premier 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:
* New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2023–24

## Cycling[edit]

* Tour de France: Sky Sport

## Esports[edit]

* Madden Club Championship: ESPN
* Madden Bowl: ESPN

## Extreme Sports[edit]

* X Games: ESPN

## 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]

* National Football League:
* ESPN: NFL Network games, three Sunday afternoon games, Thursday Night Football, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. All play-off games.
* Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
* College football: ESPN
* XFL: ESPN

## 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]

* National Hockey League: ESPN
* Premier Hockey Federation: ESPN
* Swedish Hockey League: ESPN

## Kickboxing[edit]

* King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
* King in the Ring: TVNZ

## Lacrosse[edit]

* Major League Lacrosse: ESPN

## 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:
* Sky Sport
* 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]

* World Series of Poker: ESPN

## Rowing[edit]

* World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
* Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport

## Rugby league[edit]

* 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
* Sky Sport
* State of Origin:
* Sky Sport: Live Coverage
* Prime: Delayed coverage
* Super League:
* Sky Sport
* Rugby League Challenge Cup:
* Sky Sport
* Four Nations:
* Sky Sport: Live Coverage
* Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

## Rugby union[edit]

* 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
* European Rugby Champions Cup: 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[edit]

* Men's Softball World Championship: Whakaata Māori[2]

## Swimming[edit]

* FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport

## 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]

* List of sports television broadcast contracts

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Great news for football fans – the Premier League is coming back to Sky". SKY New Zealand. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
2. ^ "Whakaata Māori becomes first indigenous broadcaster for Softball World Cup 2022". New Zealand Herald. 22 October 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
3. ^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.
4. ^ Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

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Sports broadcasting contracts in Oceania

Sovereign states|

* Australia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand|

* Cook Islands
* Niue

Dependencies
and other territories|

* American Samoa
* Christmas Island
* Clipperton Island
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands
* Easter Island
* French Polynesia
* Guam
* Hawaii
* New Caledonia
* Norfolk Island
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Pitcairn Islands
* Tokelau
* Wallis and Futuna

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