News: Soccer on TV: 2016-17 Season

English league championship and League cup: BeIN Sports
English FA cup: Fox Sports

 

Really, the relevant information in this thread would be which leagues have changed US networks this year. Doesn't appear that any league of major significance has so far, although the usual secondary European league suspects (Dutch, Portuguese, Russian) always seem to be year-to-year.

 

Just some additions/corrections for you...

- Coppa Italia no longer belongs to beINSport as they did not show a single match last season. Rights were bought by GOL-TV starting with the semifinal stage. Yet to be seen if those rights go into 2016-17.

- Copa del Rey (it should obviously read "beINSport") but wanted to add that the Final is not included in the contract and is sold separately. ESPN has the rights to the Final.

- Coupe de France & Coupe de la Ligue belong to beINSport.

- DfB Pokal - ESPN

- Scottish Premier League - Fox Sports

- Europa League - Fox Sports

- (being picky here) but Fox Soccer Plus coverage of Copa Libertaores was NOT in English

- NASL: OneWorldSport, beINSport & ESPN (espn3)

- Swiss Super League - beINSports (but not confirmed for 2016-17)


SA
www.soccertvblog.com

 

Nasl is also on cbs sports network for their summer season.

 

I'll help with some Spanish commentary. FYI, almost all of these are SD except Libertadores, Sudamericana, and LigaMX/CopaMX.

Argentina: TyC International (USA): Most games are live but Boca and River are not part of this package. The only Boca or River games shown or Copa Argentina. On-screen guide on DTV is almost always off by 1 hour so my advice is to look to the on-line guide, factor your local time compared to the time in Buenos Aires, and then set your DVR to record manually.

Brazil: GolTV for English and Spanish. Sometimes as little as 2 games per week and sometimes many games per week. PFC is a Bra Portuguese option but only SD and not cheap. This is on DTV but maybe on Dish as well.

Chile: TV Chile. Two games each weekend (one on Saturday and one on Sunday, with each game repeating late at night/early in the morning)

Copa Libertadores: Fox Deportes (some games live and some delayed--all delayed games will be edited 2-10 minutes) but the addition of Fox Soccer Plus was a huge improvement with almost every game from the tournament appearing live except maybe 5-8 if memory serves me correct.

Copa Sudamericana: Fox Deportes (some games live and some delayed--all delayed games will be edited 2-10 minutes). Hopefully Fox Soccer Plus will be used for this tournament as well.

Colombia: NTEL (channel 416 on DirecTV and also on Dish but I don't know the channel)--usually 6 games each weekend with 3 on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.

Ecuador: Ecuvisa and Ecuador TV. Rights for different teams are split. These channels are very inconsistent. Sometimes games will be shown for many weeks in a row and then there will be a gap where nothing is shown for weeks. Nothing is airing now even though the league is going.

Mexico: Univision Networks, Telemundo/NBC Universo, Azteca America (which are sometimes licensed to ESPN Deportes---how this works now is not very clear since games will appear sometimes and then games won't appear). If you live in a bad weather environment, I recommend always recording via a national feed so you don't get weather maps and scrolling news about 2 inches of rain on your screen.

Peru: Peru Magico. Seems to show almost every game if not every game.

Uruguay: GolTV. Usually 2 games each week: Nacional and Penarol.

Venezuela: GolTV usually shows 2 games each week.

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras air on TVCN and Telecentro but I don't know which leagues air on which channels. Sometimes the same game is shown on both. Neither updates the on-screen guide in any consistent fashion and both are horrible with web presence (e.g., TVCN last updated their FB listing about a year ago). Good luck if you want to follow these leagues.

Bolivia was on NGSN. Maybe if NGSN reappears then so will this league.

Paraguay as far as I can tell is the only league never to be shown in the USA.

 

I'm not sure what the terms are on their Football League deal, but I assume The Championship and League Cup will be back on beIN. The "EFL" site still lists beIN for the US and Canada: http://www.efl.com/global/overseas.aspx

 

The Rugby Channel also has Pro12 rights and will show a few live matches per week.

 

CBSports and GolTV also have rights to NASL matches, no?

 

GolTV I think is the "home" broadcaster for Miami FC just like One World Sports is the "home" broadcaster for Cosmos, even though these are national rather than local broadcasters. CBS Sports, along with BeIN and espn3 has is not tied to any particular team.

 

Any word on whether the Rugby Championship (ex-Tri Nations cup) will be available somewhere? First match kicks off on Aug 20 with Australia v New Zealand.

 

Swiss Super League is showing up on EverSport, although not sure if it will be geoblocked here in U.S.

 

Yes

 

USL matches are on local Fox Sports affiliates. Over the weekend Fox Sports Southwest had Vancouver Whitecaps 2 vs San Antonio. Can anyone verify if USL is on other affiliates? Just searched on Directv and it seems San Antonio are the only teams games on any affiliate. I guess FSSW is their home channel. This coming Sat they play LA Galaxy 2

 

Anything on next week's Champions League matches?

 

beINSport picked up the 2nd leg of the Monaco v Fenerbahce match on Wednesday, August 3rd.

That's all I see at the moment.

SA
www.soccertvblog.com

 

laola1.tv has been showing about 3 champion leagues qualifiers per day and 8-10 europa league qualifiers. Watched Sheriff Tiraspol-Hapoel Be'er Sheva yesterday. Perfect stream (perfect as in smooth... this particular stream wasn't HD but many are, but it was very acceptable even if not in HD), no ads, no stuttering.

Today, they're showing F91 Dudelange v. FK Qarabag, Dinamo Zagreb v. Sardar Skopje and Hafnarfjordur v. Dundalk, all for the Champions League. Kapaz v. Admira Wacker Modling for Europa League, and a friendly between FC Zbrojovka and St. Pauli. Nine Europa League games are on their schedule for tomorrow.

 

For those with iptv services (along with laola.tv) there are 13 matches available Thursday from the Europa League!

http://soccertvblog.com/uefa-el-tv/

SA

 

I noticed that Univision networks once again will carry the CONCACAF Champions League (the opening week of 2-4 August as 8 matches.....Univision Deportes (UDN) is showing 6 of them live, plus one on delay, while the remaining game is on delay on Galavision). However, as of today, there are no listings of Fox Sports cable networks carrying any of these matches, nor listings on the streaming side (via Fox Soccer 2 Go). The listings of the matches on the foxsports.com site only lists UDN as far as media coverage.

Does anyone have any information regarding English language coverage of this competition? Has Fox just not updated next months listings yet, or have they dropped coverage?

I have written CONCACAF regarding this issue, and will hopefully have some answer eventually.

 

http://worldsoccertalk.com/2016/07/26/la-liga-tv-schedule-challenges-premier-league/

The Spanish League's fixture will have less overlapping matches and later times (no late morning and early afternoon).

 

Sucks for serie a fans like myself. Bein will always give La Liga the air time.