FuboTV acquires Canadian rights to English Premier League

TORONTO - FuboTV, a streaming service that gives sports activities and leisure programming, has secured Canadian rights to the English Premier League for the subsequent three seasons beginning this summer season.

The deal runs by means of the 2024-2025 season, masking 380 matches every season. The EPL rights in Canada presently belong to DAZN Canada, one other streaming service.

FuboTV already has the Canadian rights to Italy’s Serie A and Coppa Italia in addition to house matches of Mexico’s Membership Deportivo Guadalajara (Chivas). It additionally gives sports activities and leisure channels like OneSoccer, beIN Sports activities, Benfica TV, MLB Community, Combat Community, Sport+ Canada, Legislation and Crime, and Paramount Community.

“The Premier League is taken into account to be the very best soccer league on the planet and has an enormous fan base in Canada,” David Gandler, FuboTV co-founder and CEO, mentioned in an announcement. “This deal permits us to convey one more top-notch property to FuboTV, additional differentiating our content material providing, and giving Canadians one more reason to chop the wire for thrilling, unique sports activities content material.”

FuboTV, a publicly traded firm on the New York Inventory Change, additionally operates within the U.S., France and Spain.

Its Canadian arm started to give attention to sports activities final August with the acquisition of Italian soccer rights. Beforehand it provided programming from content material companions.

FuboTV presently prices $14.99 a month, $29.99 per quarter or $99.99 yearly.

The corporate declined to say what number of Canadian subscribers it has.

Within the U.S., the EPL rights — each in English and Spanish — belong to NBC. The community retained these rights in November with a bid of greater than US$2.7 billion over six years, an individual aware of the deal advised The Related Press.

NBC’s earlier six-year deal, which started in 2016, was price US$1 billion.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 13, 2022