Official Sports Broadcasters & TV Rights

Where to Watch Live Sport in Your Country

Find out below how to watch live sports in your region including lists of all of the broadcasters who hold official TV and live streaming rights in your country at the moment. We now cover 125 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania — use the search box or continent filters below to jump straight to yours.

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What is Geo-blocking and How Does it Work?

Geo-blocking is the reason why some sports streams are available at home but suddenly unavailable when you travel. It works by using your device’s IP address to detect your location, allowing broadcasters to decide whether or not you can access their content. The main driver behind this is broadcasting rights, which are sold on a country-by-country basis; for example, the Premier League has different rights-holders in the UK, the US and Australia, each with their own agreements. Because of this, a broadcaster who owns the rights in one territory cannot legally stream those matches elsewhere. While this can be frustrating for fans trying to watch abroad, services like VPNs can sometimes help by masking your IP address and letting you connect as though you were still at home. However, not every provider allows this, so it’s always best to check the terms of the streaming service you want to use.

Why Broadcasting Rights Differ by Country

Broadcasting rights for live sport are rarely sold on a global scale. Instead, leagues and tournament organisers negotiate separate deals with broadcasters in different territories, allowing them to maximise revenue and ensure that the sport reaches as many fans as possible around the world. This is why the same competition can be shown on completely different platforms depending on where you live. For example, the Premier League is carried by Sky Sports and TNT Sports in the UK, while viewers in the US follow it on NBC or Peacock, and fans in Germany watch through DAZN.

These agreements often vary not just by country but also by competition and format. A broadcaster might own the rights to show league matches but not cup competitions, or only have permission to stream highlights rather than live coverage. Sometimes, rights are even split between multiple broadcasters within the same country, with one company showing Saturday games and another covering midweek fixtures. While this system can feel confusing for supporters, it’s a central part of how modern sport is financed. The money generated from selling rights is a major revenue stream for leagues, clubs and governing bodies, helping to fund everything from grassroots development to elite player wages.

How a Rights Deal Actually Gets Made

Most big rights deals get sold in cycles, usually three to six years at a time, and they go out to tender rather than being agreed quietly over a handshake. A league invites bids on a defined package (say, Saturday 12:30pm kick-offs, or the midweek Champions League slot) and whoever puts up the most credible money for that specific slice wins it. That's why you'll often find two completely different broadcasters covering the same league in the same country, each holding a different chunk of the fixture list. Splitting things up like this gets leagues more total money than selling the whole lot to one buyer. It's also the reason fans end up needing three or four subscriptions just to follow one team properly through a season.

The World Cup and the Olympics work on a different model entirely. There's no single global broadcaster producing one feed for the whole planet - instead the host organisation sells rights country by country, often years in advance, and supplies a neutral "host feed" that each local broadcaster builds their own commentary on top of. Same pictures, completely different studio, different pundits, different language. That's why the same match can feel like two different broadcasts depending where you're watching from.

Pan-Regional Broadcasters You'll See Across Multiple Countries

Some of the names in the table aren't single-country broadcasters at all. beIN Sports is the obvious one - it holds Premier League, Champions League and Ligue 1 rights across roughly two dozen countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa under one regional deal, which is why you'll see it pop up again and again as you scroll down the list. DAZN does something similar across parts of Europe, Japan and the Americas, though the actual channels and pricing shift country to country. SuperSport covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa the same way, and Eurosport has traditionally bundled dozens of European territories into one pan-continental package.

Holding a regional deal doesn't guarantee it applies everywhere in that region, though. Saudi Arabia is the clearest example: beIN's broadcasting licence there was permanently pulled by Saudi regulators back in 2020 after a long-running dispute over signal piracy, so Saudi viewers watch through the domestic broadcaster SSC instead - even though literally every neighbouring Gulf state still gets its football through beIN. So if a country sits inside a broadcaster's "region," it's still worth checking that specific country rather than assuming.

Free-to-Air vs Pay TV: Why Some Countries Get Games for Free

Not every country handles this the same way. Some leagues and federations deliberately keep certain matches free-to-air - no subscription needed - because reaching the widest possible audience matters more to them than squeezing out every last pound of rights money. National team games, domestic cup finals and major international tournaments get this treatment most often, even in countries where the weekly league football sits behind a paywall the rest of the year.

Other markets go the opposite direction and sell almost everything to pay-TV or streaming, simply because that's where the money is. Brazil actually does both at once: the 2026 World Cup is being shown completely free on YouTube through CazéTV alongside traditional broadcaster Globo, while the Brazilian domestic league is split across a mix of paid TV and streaming deals. There isn't really a global rulebook here - each federation decides what matters more in their own market, and that can flip entirely at the next rights cycle.

Tips for Watching Sport Abroad

Travelling doesn’t have to mean missing your favourite matches, but it does pay to plan ahead. Always check who has the broadcasting rights in the country you’re visiting, as many tournaments are shown worldwide, and be mindful of time zone differences so you don’t get caught out by an early morning or late-night kick-off. In some places, major events are even shown on free-to-air channels, so it’s worth checking before signing up for a subscription. WheresTheMatch makes things easier by showing you exactly which broadcasters have the rights in each country, with dedicated sport streaming pages for countries such as Germany and Brazil. If all else fails, look out for legitimate local services such as DAZN, ESPN+ or Kayo Sports, which often show the same competitions.

What If I Can’t Find an Official Broadcaster in My Country?

Not every country has official coverage for every sporting competition, and in some regions broadcasting rights simply aren’t sold at all. If you can’t find a broadcaster in your country, there are still a few options to explore. Some international networks, such as DAZN or beIN Sports, operate across multiple territories and may carry the competition you want to follow. In certain cases, free-to-air channels will also pick up selected matches, particularly for major international tournaments. Another option is to look at broadcasters in nearby countries, as some of them extend their coverage to wider regions. If no local broadcaster is available, keeping up with live text updates, radio coverage, or highlight packages can still help you stay connected to the action.