Sports broadcasting contracts in the Republic of Ireland

Sports broadcasting rights in the Republic of Ireland include:

Viewers in the Republic of Ireland can watch sports on Irish free-to-air channels RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three, TG4, and on pay-TV networks such as Virgin Media More, Sky Sports, BT Sport, Premier Sports, FreeSports and Eurosport. They can also access Northern Ireland's version of British networks such as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C on satellite and cable.

Gaelic Games

Broadcasting Contracts for Gaelic Games (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship RTÉ[1] Live: Up to 31 games exclusively, including all Provincial Finals & two All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with Sky.
Highlights: Sunday night programme
Sky Sports[1] Live: Up to 14 games exclusively, including two All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ.
Highlights: Midweek programme
BBC Sport[1] Live: Ulster SFC games shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ
Deferred: Ulster SFC games not shown on RTÉ.
TG4[1] Highlights: Monday night programme
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship RTÉ[1] Live: Up to 31 games exclusively, including both Provincial Finals & both All-Ireland Quarter-Finals. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with Sky Sports.
Highlights: Sunday night programme
Sky Sports[1] Live: Up to 14 games exclusively. All-Ireland Semi-Finals & All-Ireland Final shown on a simulcast basis with RTÉ.
Highlights: Midweek programme
TG4[1] Highlights: Monday night programme
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship TG4[1] Live: All-Ireland Semi-Finals & Final exclusively
All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship TG4[1] Live: All-Ireland Semi-Finals & Final exclusively
International Rules RTÉ Live: in 2017
Allianz Football League TG4[1] Live: Up to three games on Sunday afternoons. (Two live and one deferred)
Highlights: Monday night programme
RTÉ[1] Highlights: Sunday evenings
Allianz Hurling League TG4[1] Live: Up to three games on Sunday afternoons. (One live and one deferred)
Highlights: Monday night programme
RTÉ[1] Highlights: Sunday evenings
All-Ireland Club Senior Football Championship TG4 Live: Sunday afternoon games
All-Ireland Club Senior Hurling Championship TG4 Live: Sunday afternoon games
All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship TG4 Live
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship RTÉ Live
All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship TG4[1] Live
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship TG4[1] Live
All-Ireland Intermediate and Junior Club Championships

Association football


Futsal

Rugby Union

Broadcasting Contracts for Rugby Union (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Rugby World Cup To be announced
Six Nations Championship RTE Sport & Virgin Media More[15] Live: All fifteen games on both One & RTE2 until 2025.
Ireland Autumn Internationals Virgin Media More
England Autumn internationals TNT Sports Live in 2024
Scotland Autumn Internationals
Wales Autumn Internationals
The Rugby Championship and SANZAAR test Sky Sports Live: until 2025
United Rugby Championship RTE[16] Live:
TG4 Live:
BBC NI Live:
Ulster Bank All-Ireland League RTÉ[17] Live: Final
English Premiership BT Sport Live: up to 80 matches per season until 2020-21
ITV Sport Live: up to 7 matches per season including final and highlights of all other matches
Heineken Champions Cup BT Sport[18] Live: All matches until 2022.
RTE Sport Live: up to u matches live (including one quarter-final, one semi-final and a final); plus highlights of all other matches until 2024[19]
European Rugby Challenge Cup BT Sport[18] Live: All matches until 2022.[20]
TG4 Highlights: (Irish Teams highlights)
Women's Rugby World Cup
RTÉ Live:
Women's Six Nations Championship RTÉ & Virgin Media More Live: all Ireland matches on RTE2 or Virgin Media One, other matches on RTÉ Player, Virgin Media More & Virgin Media Two
Six Nations Under 20s Championship RTÉ & Virgin Media One Live: all Ireland matches on RTE2 or Virgin Media One, other matches on RTÉ Player, Virgin Media More & Virgin Media Two|- Rugby World Cup Sevens
World Rugby Sevens Series Sky Sports Live:
RTÉ Highlights:
World Rugby Under 20 Championship
Schools Rugby FreeSports

Golf

Boxing

Kickboxing

  • King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights

Mixed Martial Arts

Broadcasting Contracts for Mixed Martial Arts (Television)
Event Broadcaster Broadcast Details
Bellator Channel 5 Live: Coverage of European Fights Virgin Media More Live: Coverage of European Fights
Cage Warriors BT Sport Live:
Bushido MMA DAZN October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
UFC BT Sport[21] Live: All Events Virgin Media More Deferred:

Tennis

Olympics

Athletics

Cricket

Horse Racing

Motor Sport

Broadcasting Contracts for Motor Racing (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Formula One Sky Sports[25] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races.
Sky Sports to show every F1 race exclusively live from 2019 until 2029.
Channel 4[26] Live: British Grand Prix only until 2023.
Highlights: All races until the end of the 2023 season.
MotoGP BT Sport[27] Live: Coverage of all Practice, Qualifying & Races across MotoGP, Moto2 & Moto3 classes until the end of the 2021 season.
QUEST[28] Highlights: Monday night programme.
Formula E Virgin Media More[29] Live: Coverage of all thirteen races in 2018–19 season on Virgin Media More plus highlights on three Virgin Media Television channels.
BT Sport Live: Complete coverage of all races, all practices, and all qualifying sessions, plus highlights.
Eurosport[30] Live: Coverage of all races and selected qualifying sessions until 2020.
Deferred: Coverage of selected qualifying sessions.
DTM BT Sport Live:

Snooker

Broadcasting Contracts for Snooker (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Triple Crown events
World Snooker Championship Live: until 2024
Live: until 2026
Masters Live: until 2024
Live: until 2026
UK Championship Live: until 2023
Live: until 2025
Other Events
Home Nations Series
(English Open, Welsh Open,
Scottish Open & Northern Ireland Open) 		Live: All afternoon & evening sessions.
QUEST
BBC Wales [1]
 Live: All afternoons sessions and both sessions of finals.
Highlights: All evening sessions.
Champion of Champions Live:
World Grand Prix Live:
Players Championship Live:
World Snooker Shoot-Out Live:
Other Snooker events Live: Eighteen other events each season until 2026.

1: ^ with the exception of the Welsh Open which is broadcast free-to-air on BBC Wales.

Cycling

Sailing

Greyhound Racing

Hockey

Broadcasting Contracts for Hockey (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Men's Hockey World Cup BT Sport All matches live in 2018
Women's Hockey World Cup
Men's Hockey Pro League BT Sport All matches live until 2021
Women's Hockey Pro League
Irish Hockey League
Irish Senior Cup

Basketball

Broadcasting Contracts for Basketball (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Super League TG4 Live: Coverage of Men's and Women's National Cup Finals.[35]
Highlights: Weekly highlights show broadcast both on television and online through the channel's website and Facebook live platform.[35]
National Basketball Association Live: over 170 games per season, including every game of the NBA Finals as well as the Western Conference and Eastern Conference finals until 2022.[36]
EuroLeague Eurosport
EuroCup

Australian Rules

Broadcasting Contracts for Australian Rules (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Australian Football League Live: up to five games per week, including the Toyota AFL Grand Final, plus a weekly highlights programme.
International Rules Series Live: in 2017

Show Jumping

Broadcasting Contracts for Show Jumping (Television)
Event Broadcaster Details
Dublin Horse Show Live:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "GAA confirm media rights for 2017-2022". GAA.ie. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  2. ^ "RTE and TG4 to show every match of FIFA Women's World Cup this summer". Extra.ie. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  3. ^ UEFA.com (30 April 2019). "Where to watch Under-17 EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  4. ^ UEFA.com. "Where to watch Women's Under-17 EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  5. ^ "How to watch Champions League in Ireland on LiveScore, RTÉ and Virgin Media". The Irish Times.
  6. ^ "What TV channel is the Champions League on in Ireland?". 2 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Subscribe Football". eirsport. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Virgin Media Ireland secures rights to UEFA competitions for the next three years". 3 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Subscribe Football". eirsport. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Virgin Media Ireland secures rights to UEFA competitions for the next three years". 3 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Hasaacas Ladies FC v Mamelodi Sundowns | CAF Women's Champions League Final | Full Match". YouTube.
  12. ^ "TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup 2021 - al Ahly SC vs. Raja CA". YouTube.
  13. ^ "Premier League broadcast deals for 2019-2022". www.premierleague.com. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  14. ^ "J1 League". FreeSports. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Historic partnership between RTÉ and Virgin Media Television". 20 January 2022.
  16. ^ "BBC - BBC Wales and S4C announce four-year Pro12 Rugby rights deal - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  17. ^ "RTÉ Sport to broadcast Autumn Internationals until 2021". Irish Times. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  18. ^ a b "BT Sport And Sky Sports Announce European Broadcast Deal". irishrugby.ie. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  19. ^ Stroud, Conor (11 October 2018). "Where can I watch the Heineken Champions Cup?". European Professional Club Rugby. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  20. ^ "One pay-TV broadcaster and free-to-air coverage for Champions Cup rugby". www.epcrugby.com. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  21. ^ "BT Sport extends UFC broadcast rights deal". BT.com. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  22. ^ "Amazon confirms UK deal for ATP World Tour - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  23. ^ "Amazon wins exclusive rights to WTA in four-year deal, Prime Video to be the home for tennis in the UK and Ireland". WTA. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  24. ^ "Eurosport to deliver re-vamped Davis Cup Finals event in multiple markets across Europe". Davis Cup. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  25. ^ "Sky Sports to show every F1 race live from 2019 until 2029". Sky Sports. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  26. ^ "Channel 4 and Sky agree Formula One deal". f1.channel4.com. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  27. ^ Sports, Dorna (8 February 2018). "BT Sport to continue as the home of MotoGP™ until 2021". www.motogp.com. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  28. ^ "Quest secures exclusive free-to-air MotoGP Highlights from 2019". Eurosport UK. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  29. ^ "TV3 Group to show all Formula E races and more in Season Four". TV3 Group. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  30. ^ "Formula E broadens partnership with Eurosport across Europe". Formula E. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  31. ^ a b c "BBC and World Snooker extend broadcast agreement to 2024". World Snooker. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  32. ^ a b c d "Eurosport 10-year agreement". World Snooker. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  33. ^ "Eurosport and Quest cue up live Home Nations". World Snooker. 5 October 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  34. ^ a b c d "Snooker's global footprint keeps growing". World Snooker. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  35. ^ a b "Basketball Ireland signs new three-year broadcast deal with TG4". Basketball Ireland. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  36. ^ "Sky Sports and NBA announce four-year broadcast and digital partnership". Sky Sports. 16 October 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
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