Watching live games online?

[prymetyme]

thanks alot man, i was lucky enough to catch the manchester united and newcastle game it was awesome thanks a lot

[ahadhayat]

ppl who watched da game online today.. how was da quality of da game?was it good?did u watch da man u game?

[Palermo10]

Watched some of Boro-Charlton, watched all of Man Utd-Newcastle, watched some of Real Madrid - Cadiz

Quality (thanks to my beautiful 700m) is great, and even better when you remind yourself it's free.

I was able to watch RM's match in my garage while waxing the car from 10 yards away and see what was going on.

[ahadhayat]

Hi. I have just started my University in America and am desperately wanting to watch the EPL. Could anyone please help me out? I live in a dorm and thus i cant get the Cable connected in my room(University policy). So it has to be Online tv or something. I read somewhere that there are free online sites where you can watch the games? is that true?if so, how is the quality of the games? I dont even mind paying for the whole season. I just want to be able to watch a good quality game. Thats all. Could anyone please help me out?

[sarabella]

Hi. I have just started my University in America and am desperately wanting to watch the EPL. Could anyone please help me out? I live in a dorm and thus i cant get the Cable connected in my room(University policy). So it has to be Online tv or something. I read somewhere that there are free online sites where you can watch the games? is that true?if so, how is the quality of the games? I dont even mind paying for the whole season. I just want to be able to watch a good quality game. Thats all. Could anyone please help me out?
Threads merged.

Please look before starting a new thread. This one was just two or three threads down from yours. All the information you need should be in here.

Thanks.

[prymetyme]

the man u newcastle game was great, the quality is amazing especially since its free. I cant complain at all because I went from not being able to watch any matchs and now watching virtually all that i can watch. Its great and when you put it on full screen the quality is still good. If anyone hasnt tried this I suggest they get on it. Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread and help out. :)

[Republic of Mancunia]

I've been getting a few people PM'ing me asking about the tv stations goal tv 1 and goal tv 2 as they keep disappearing and re-apperaing from PPLive.

The channels are currently on PPStream which is similar to PPLive and can be downloaded here. (http://www.ppstream.com/bin/ppstreamsetup.exe ) I watched Ajax Vs. Feyernoord and Dunfermilne Vs. Celtic on here yesterday and it was pretty good overall.

[USsoccerman]

I've been getting a few people PM'ing me asking about the tv stations goal tv 1 and goal tv 2 as they keep disappearing and re-apperaing from PPLive.

The channels are currently on PPStream which is similar to PPLive and can be downloaded here. (http://www.ppstream.com/bin/ppstreamsetup.exe ) I watched Ajax Vs. Feyernoord and Dunfermilne Vs. Celtic on here yesterday and it was pretty good overall.Republic of Mancunia can you help me out here, I just downloaded PPStream and I'm lost, the media player is up and running but since I don't know the language I don't know how do anything?

[zeilyas]

this is a very good german streaming site: http://www.streamcity.dl.am

have fun

[soccerfreek421]

Republic of Mancunia can you help me out here, I just downloaded PPStream and I'm lost, the media player is up and running but since I don't know the language I don't know how do anything?

Yea, I'm with you there. I have no idea what I'm doing.

[soccerfreek421]

this is a very good german streaming site: http://www.streamcity.dl.am

have fun


How did you get this to work??? I am completely lost

[hankleberry]

Ok, whenever someone posts this question on here I always respond and I don't know why, I just can't help myself but I swear, this is the last time!!Just like the 0-point said, there are many sites out there, some are free, some you have to pay for but here's a few pointers.

Firstly, the free methods.

Search for programs called PPLive, Coolstreaming and Sopcast and download them. They are all p2p programs, kind of like torrent sharing and the more people connected to a stream the better the stream will be providing your internet connection is fast enough. I'd say 512Kb is the bare minimum you could get anything like a decent stream with but anything at or over 1mb should work perfectly.

Coolstreaming and PPLive are the 2 you'll want for premiership games, SOPcast is probably only any good if you want Italian games.

PPLive is probably the best of the 3 pieces of software, once you've launced it, a small silver icon will appear at the bottom right hand corner of your monitor in the taskbar, right click on it and select the 4th option down, this will now run the program in English rather than the default language of Cantonese. Right-click again and go to channel list, select a channel and you can watch it. To find out what's on PPLive go to http://www5.pplive.com/english/programlist.shtml or http://www.pplive.it/ (second option tells you the actual shows that are on instead of just a list of channels) and click play to watch or to http://en.coolstreaming.it/forum/ to find out which games are going to be on that day.

There are also many football forums that will list all the games on PPLive together with links, these sites are easy to search for, 3 of them being at www.freefootball.uk.tt , www.football4less.com and www.freefooty.org as well as http://en.coolstreaming.it/forum/ with football4less being a particular favorite of mine. You can also find out what's going to be on CoolStreaming and SOPcast, with links in the forums on these sites. In addition to these they will also give you links to streams that do not require software including an Israeli TV station called Livesports.

Livesports is to be found at www.livesports.co.il register, respond to the email they send you by clicking the long link in the middle (it won't make much sense unless you speak hebrew), wait 24-48 hours and you should be able to log-in, view the schedules and watch games, alternatively the Livesports links can also be found in the forums listed above as well as many others without the need to register directly.

That's probably enough to get you started and will give you tonnes of football but in case you want a little more you will have to pay. There are many pay-sites out there, 3 of which I have tried and more that I have looked into. Some are good, some are bad, some are excellent, some are scams so be careful!! but I don't really want to talk about them in case I'm accused of spamming.


I'd like to request that this post be pinned.

Thanks for the great info! Repped.

[Republic of Mancunia]

Thanks hankleberry, I'm a little flattered hehe although I must say that some of that info is now out of date as the technology moves on with new pieces of software being released all the time as well as certain ones not working anymore.

Still, www.football4less.com and www.footballstreaming.info (when it works :rolleyes: ) should get most people going and able to watch something as they pretty much explain everything on those sites with "how to" guides etc.

www.asiaplate.com can sometimes be useful too.

[Chris Coleman]

Hey i'm new, can you please help? i also want to see live games of Fulham FC on pc.. any recomendations on FREE sites please? thanks

[soccerfreek421]

TVAnts works awsome. I'm watching Celtic get killed by Man U right now. Chelsea gets good coverage and so does Arsenal. By the way, I just started using it yesterday so there is probably more, I just can't find it.

[Chris Coleman]

ok thanks, is it free and whats the exact address??

[soccerfreek421]

http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm

That's is a match schedule, where you can find the games and such, and also some links to other streaming networks.

[Republic of Mancunia]

ok thanks, is it free and whats the exact address??

Hey, TvAnts is a piece of software that shows streaming tv channels, mainly of asian origin which occasionally shows live football. There are many similar programs, with new ones popping up all the time that do a similar thing. It could be a good idea to have more than one of these programs on your PC if you want to watch alot of stuff as certain programs will stream some channels and some won't.

Seriously, the best thing you could do is to sign up to either football4less or footballstreaminginfo (they're both free) to gain access to the forums so you can find out what channel (and on which program) your team is going to be shown on come matchday. The schedules do tend to be a little sketchy though and you'll often find tonnes of people logged in to the forums at or around kick-off time and generally people will let everyone else know if they discover a link to a particular game.

Here's football4less's guide to Tvants.

http://www.football4less.com/streams/tvants.html

Edit:And as the poster above me said, don't forget asiaplate.....just thought you might need one of the other two for the benefit of their "user guides" more than anything.

[Chris Coleman]

Hey, TvAnts is a piece of software that shows streaming tv channels, mainly of asian origin which occasionally shows live football. There are many similar programs, with new ones popping up all the time that do a similar thing. It could be a good idea to have more than one of these programs on your PC if you want to watch alot of stuff as certain programs will stream some channels and some won't.

Seriously, the best thing you could do is to sign up to either football4less or footballstreaminginfo (they're both free) to gain access to the forums so you can find out what channel (and on which program) your team is going to be shown on come matchday. The schedules do tend to be a little sketchy though and you'll often find tonnes of people logged in to the forums at or around kick-off time and generally people will let everyone else know if they discover a link to a particular game.

Here's football4less's guide to Tvants.

http://www.football4less.com/streams/tvants.html

Edit:And as the poster above me said, don't forget asiaplate.....just thought you might need one of the other two for the benefit of their "user guides" more than anything.
what doi need to download to be able to see this stuff?

[Republic of Mancunia]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.