> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Biggest Football TV Rights Deals by League and Competition (2026) - URL: https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/the-biggest-football-tv-rights-deals-by-league-and-competition-2026/ - Published: 2026-11-12T20:20:05.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-13T11:41:11.000Z - Description: A 2026 comparison of current league and UEFA media-rights cycles, with official totals, contract years and buyers where they have been disclosed. - Author: Football Business News - Tags: Media Rights, Finance, Europe The Premier League's UK live and highlights agreements will deliver £6.7bn over four seasons from 2025/26 to 2028/29, according to the league, the largest domestic football media-rights sale in the UK. This 2026 comparison sets out that deal alongside current cycles at UEFA and the other big five leagues, with contract years and buyers where they have been disclosed. **Key facts** - Scope: current domestic and, where sourced, international media-rights cycles for the major European leagues and UEFA's club competitions, as of 12 November 2026. - The Premier League said in December 2023 that its UK live packages with Sky Sports and TNT Sports, plus BBC Sport highlights, will deliver £6.7bn across the four years from 2025/26\. That is an official domestic total, not a global figure. - SportsPro reported in November 2024 that clubs were told total commercial and broadcast revenue for the 2025 to 2028 cycle would be £12.25bn, up 17% from £10.5bn, driven in large part by overseas rights. That total includes commercial income, not only television fees. - Ligue 1 is in a different position. After earlier contracts failed, the league is showing matches on its own channel, Ligue 1+, and has put 2027 to 2032 domestic rights out to tender. That process is covered in our [tender explainer](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/ligue-1-tv-rights-tender-2027-2032-what-the-lfp-is-selling/). - Figures stay in the currency and year used by the source. Completed awards are separated from tenders and from revenue targets that have not been sold. **£6.7bn** Official Premier League UK live and highlights total for the four seasons from 2025/26 to 2028/29.**€1.121bn** Official DFL national media revenue per season for 2025/26 to 2028/29, covering the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2.**€6.135bn** Official La Liga domestic audiovisual total for the already awarded 2027/28 to 2031/32 cycle. ## How this comparison works Media-rights headlines are easy to mix up. A domestic total is not the same as a global total. A four-year UK cycle is not the same as a three-year international cycle. A league announcement that includes the second division, bar and restaurant rights or highlights is not comparable, pound for pound, with a live-only first-division package. This page keeps those distinctions in the notes. Where a competition has already sold its next cycle, that award is shown as a forward contract, not as money being earned in 2026/27\. Asking prices and unsold tenders, including Ligue 1's 2027 to 2032 process, are not treated as completed deal values. ## Current rights cycles, compared __Current or already awarded media-rights cycles for the main European leagues and UEFA club competitions. Last updated 12 November 2026.__ | Competition | Cycle | What the figure covers | Reported or official value | Buyers, where disclosed | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Premier League, UK domestic | 2025/26 to 2028/29 | UK live packages and free-to-air highlights | £6.7bn over four years | Official. Sky Sports has four live packages, TNT Sports one, and BBC Sport the highlights, per the league's [4 December 2023 announcement](https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/3807882?ref=footballbusinessnews.com). | | Premier League, global commercial and broadcast | 2025 to 2028 business cycle | Domestic and overseas broadcast, plus commercial income | £12.25bn, up from £10.5bn | Reported to clubs, according to [SportsPro](https://www.sportspro.com/news/premier-league-revenue-tv-rights-sponsorship-img-productions-november-2024/?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) in November 2024\. This is not a pure television figure. The league has published a market-by-market list of [international live rights holders](https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/3703577/premier-league-broadcast-deals-for-2025-2028?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) for 2025/26 to 2027/28, without a single official overseas total in that announcement. | | UEFA club competitions | Current cycle sold in 2024, through 2026/27 | Champions League, Europa League and Conference League media rights, combined | About £2.9bn a year | Media figure. [BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y8njv2ylvo?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) said the current rights, sold in 2024, are worth about £2.9bn per year. A later target for the next cycle is not treated here as a completed sale. | | DFL, national (German-language) | 2025/26 to 2028/29 | National media rights for the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 | €1.121bn a season, €4.484bn over four years | Official. The [DFL announcement](https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/dfl-increases-national-media-revenue-to-1121-billion-per-season-from-2025-26-29981?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) on 5 December 2024 said this was about 2% above the previous cycle. Sky and DAZN share live pay-TV coverage. The figure includes the second division and is not an international total. | | La Liga, domestic, current cycle | 2022 to 2027 | First-division residential broadcasting rights in Spain | €4.95bn over the cycle | Official, restated by La Liga when it announced the next cycle. That total is for the residential first-division segment, not the full domestic audiovisual basket. | | La Liga, domestic, next cycle | 2027/28 to 2031/32 | All domestic audiovisual rights, including first-division residential, HORECA, the second division, and free-to-air and highlights | More than €6.135bn over five seasons | Official. A [28 November 2025 La Liga statement](https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/laliga-secures-over-euro6135-billion-in-domestic-audiovisual-revenue-for-2027-28-2031-32-up-9percent-over-previous-cycle?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) split that into more than €5.25bn of first-division residential rights, about €650m from commercial premises, about €175m from the second division, and €60m from free-to-air and highlights. Telefónica and DAZN will each show five first-division matches per matchday. The league said the residential total is 6% above the previous €4.95bn cycle, and the overall domestic total is 9% higher. | | Serie A, domestic | 2024 to 2029 | Domestic audiovisual rights | Around €900m a year, of which €700m from DAZN and €200m from Sky | Reported by [Il Sole 24 Ore](https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/serie-a-league-900-million-back-in-action-new-tv-tender-ready-AJWWszp?ref=footballbusinessnews.com). The same report said international rights generate around €250m a year, and that guidelines for a 2029/30 to 2033/34 tender were under review. These are not league-issued totals. | | Ligue 1, domestic | Live cycle disrupted; 2027 to 2032 out to tender | Domestic matches, currently shown mainly on the league's own channel | No stable official annual fee in 2026 | DAZN and beIN were awarded a 2024 to 2029 package, but DAZN exited after one season and the league launched Ligue 1+. Our [tender explainer](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/ligue-1-tv-rights-tender-2027-2032-what-the-lfp-is-selling/) sets out the later evidence on channel revenue and the 3 November to 7 December 2026 bidding window. That tender is not yet a completed sale. | ## 1\. The Premier League remains in a different tier The Premier League's official UK deal is the clearest benchmark in this list. On 4 December 2023 the league said it had concluded four-year agreements, starting in 2025/26, with Sky Sports and TNT Sports for five UK live packages and with BBC Sport for free-to-air highlights. The announced agreements "will deliver a total of £6.7billion in revenue across the four-year period", including a 4% increase in live-rights value compared with the previous process. Sky Sports was awarded four live packages, covering a minimum of 215 live matches a season. TNT Sports was awarded 52 live matches a season. BBC Sport kept highlights of all 380 matches, plus additional digital rights. That £6.7bn is a UK number. International rights are sold separately, and often on a shorter 2025/26 to 2027/28 term. The league's May 2025 list of overseas holders includes NBC Sports in the United States, beIN Sports in the Middle East and North Africa, and a long roster of national partners, but it does not add those contracts into one official global total. [SportsPro](https://www.sportspro.com/news/premier-league-revenue-tv-rights-sponsorship-img-productions-november-2024/?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) reported that, at a shareholders' meeting on 22 November 2024, clubs were told global and domestic commercial and broadcast revenue would rise 17% to £12.25bn for the 2025 to 2028 cycle, from £10.5bn in 2022 to 2025\. The publication said the increase was understood to have been driven by a significant rise in overseas broadcast revenue, and that the £6.7bn UK deal sat inside that wider total. Because the £12.25bn figure also includes commercial income, it should not be read as a television-only number. ## 2\. UEFA's club competitions, as a single rights pool UEFA sells media rights to the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League together, market by market. [BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y8njv2ylvo?ref=footballbusinessnews.com) has reported that the current rights, sold in 2024, are worth about £2.9bn a year, and that new deals will come into effect from 2027\. The same report said officials believe the next sale could bring in a minimum of €5bn (£4.3bn) a year. That later figure is a reported target, not a completed award, and is not used as a current deal value here. The practical point for clubs is that UEFA rights sit on top of domestic league deals, and they are not evenly shared. BBC Sport said Champions League clubs currently earn almost 75% of the revenue from those UEFA rights sales, with 17% going to Europa League clubs and 8% to sides in the Conference League. ## 3\. The Bundesliga's official national contract The DFL's 5 December 2024 announcement is unusually precise. For the 2025/26 to 2028/29 seasons, the 36 Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 clubs "can expect revenue totalling €1.121 billion per season", or €4.484bn in total, about 2% more than the previous cycle. The DFL said this remained the second-strongest national media contract among football leagues. Sky will continue to show Friday and Saturday single matches, including the Saturday evening top match, plus all Bundesliga 2 matches. DAZN will show the Saturday conference and all Sunday Bundesliga single matches. Two caveats matter in any comparison with the Premier League. First, the official €1.121bn is a national, German-language award that includes the second division. Second, the same announcement does not state an international-rights total. AFP, in a 5 December 2024 report carried by [France 24](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241205-german-bundesliga-announces-increase-in-new-tv-rights-deal?ref=footballbusinessnews.com), put Bundesliga international rights at €250m and La Liga's international rights at an additional €900m a season. Those international figures are media-reported, not DFL or La Liga totals from the official notices cited above. ## 4\. La Liga has already sold its next domestic cycle Spanish clubs are still in the 2022 to 2027 domestic cycle, which La Liga has officially put at €4.95bn for first-division residential rights. In November 2025 the league announced that it had already sold the following cycle, covering 2027/28 to 2031/32\. The headline official total is more than €6.135bn of domestic audiovisual revenue, up 9% on the previous cycle. That basket is broader than residential first-division live rights alone. La Liga broke it down as more than €5.25bn from the first-division residential segment, about €650m from commercial premises, about €175m from the second division, and €60m from free-to-air and highlights. Telefónica and DAZN will each broadcast five first-division matches per matchday. The residential segment alone, at more than €5.25bn, is a 6% increase on the current €4.95bn cycle. For a like-for-like view of first-division home-market live rights, the €5.25bn and €4.95bn figures are the better comparison; the €6.135bn total should be quoted with its extra categories attached. ## 5\. Serie A, on reported rather than official totals Serie A's current domestic cycle runs from 2024 to 2029, with DAZN streaming all 380 matches and Sky broadcasting 114 of them, according to [Il Sole 24 Ore](https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/serie-a-league-900-million-back-in-action-new-tv-tender-ready-AJWWszp?ref=footballbusinessnews.com). That report put the cycle at around €900m a year, made up of €700m from DAZN and €200m from Sky, a little below a previous-cycle average of €927.5m, with a revenue-sharing mechanism in the DAZN agreement that could raise the league's take. It also put international rights at around €250m a year. Those numbers are used here as labelled reporting from a major Italian business newspaper, not as a league circular. Related: [Serie A clubs have delayed Avenue Capital's €320m bid for a stake in the league's international rights](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/serie-a-clubs-delay-avenue-capitals-eur320m-rights-stake-bid/). The same article said work was already under way on a 2029/30 to 2033/34 tender, with the no-single-buyer rule remaining in place. Until that process is awarded, the 2024 to 2029 figures remain the current benchmark. ## 6\. Ligue 1 is selling again, after building its own channel French domestic rights are the outlier in this comparison because there is no stable, official annual fee to put beside the Premier League or the DFL. A 2024 award to DAZN and beIN, originally framed around the 2024 to 2029 seasons, did not last in that form. DAZN left after a single season, and the league launched Ligue 1+ in the summer of 2025. The LFP has now brought the next cycle forward. As set out in our [tender explainer](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/ligue-1-tv-rights-tender-2027-2032-what-the-lfp-is-selling/) and the earlier [market report](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/ligue-1-puts-its-domestic-tv-rights-back-on-the-market-as-the-ligue-1-exit-window-closes-in/), the 2027 to 2032 domestic rights were put out as a single exclusive package, with bidding from 3 November to 7 December 2026\. LFP Media chairman Nicolas de Tavernost told the French Senate that Ligue 1+ generated about €150m in gross revenue against around €65m in production and content costs, before distribution fees. Those are operating figures for the league's own channel, not a sold rights contract, and they help explain why clubs want a new guaranteed fee from 2027\. Until a winner is named, this page does not assign Ligue 1 a completed 2027 to 2032 value. Related: [LFP Media Sets 3 December Deadline for Ligue 1 Rights Bids](https://www.footballbusinessnews.com/lfp-media-sets-3-december-deadline-for-ligue-1-rights-bids/). ## Methodology and update This page compares current media-rights cycles by the official or, where necessary, clearly labelled reported value of each deal, with the contract years and the buyer where disclosed. Domestic totals, international totals and mixed commercial-and-broadcast totals are not added together unless a source does that work. Second-division, hospitality and highlights packages are identified when they sit inside a headline number. Future tenders and unsold targets are described, not ranked as completed sales. Last updated 12 November 2026\. The page will be refreshed when Ligue 1 awards its 2027 to 2032 tender, or when UEFA or a major league publishes a new official cycle total. **Sources** Official notices are linked above from the Premier League, the DFL and La Liga, together with reporting from SportsPro, BBC Sport, France 24 / AFP and Il Sole 24 Ore, and our own Ligue 1 tender coverage. 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