The Caribbean Premier Sports Limited (CPSL) organization has snapped up exclusive rights to club competitions run by European soccer’s governing body UEFA.
This entails the Rush Sports, Flow Sports, and Sports Max channels owned by CPSL covering the next three seasons of the top-tier UEFA Champions League (UCL), second-tier Europa League, and third-tier Conference League.
In total, CPSL platforms will be able to cover 545 matches across each of the 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 seasons.
Flow Sports and Sports Max have shared UEFA club rights for the last few cycles.
The tender for these rights was sent live by UEFA and its club competition rights agency Team Marketing on February 26, with a deadline for bids of March 26.
Players from the Caribbean set to take part in UEFA club competitions next season include Aston Villa’s Leon Bailey (Jamaica).
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By GlobalDataIn terms of the international broadcast partner portfolio for UEFA’s trio of men’s club competitions, earlier this month exclusive rights were snapped up by DAZN in New Zealand, while mid-June saw the Megogo streaming service retain rights in Ukraine.
Elsewhere in North America, meanwhile, Paramount continues to hold exclusive English-language rights in the US, with Spanish-language rights held by TelevisaUnivision.
UEFA's club competitions will all operate under a new format this season. The Champions League will comprise 203 matches per season across 19 match weeks, as opposed to the previous 17 match weeks and 137 games.
The Europa League and Conference League will also increase in size this season, with the match total up from 282 to 342.