BeIN Sports, the major international pay-TV broadcaster, has extended its exclusive deal covering rights to UEFA European club soccer competitions in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and several markets in Asia.
The deal extension runs for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons, and covers the men's and women's Champions League top-tier competitions, as well as the men's second-tier Europa League and third-tier Conference League.
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The exclusive tie-up covers the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen, Iraq, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. In addition, BeIN will cover UEFA club competition action in Indonesia and the Philippines, just not on an exclusive basis.
The deal has been unveiled with only the semi-finals and finals remaining of the 2024-25 UEFA club competitions, and was struck with UC3, the joint venture set up by the UEFA governing body and the European Club Association.
A one-season deal for the trio of UEFA men's club competitions, covering MENA and the Asian countries, was unveiled last October for 2024-25, while BeIN is showing the 2024-25 Women's Champions League in these markets through an agreement announced at the same time.
The Women's Champions League in 2025-26 involves a new competition format starting, while the trio of men's competitions this season all saw more teams and games added.
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By GlobalDataOf the countries listed above, Egypt's Mohammed Salah plays for English champions Liverpool, with Morocco's Ashraf Hakimi at French heavyweights Paris Saint-Germain, and compatriot Brahim Diaz at last season's Champions League winners Real Madrid.
Mohammed Al-Subaie, BeIN MENA's chief executive, has said: "With UEFA’s new competition format living up to its promise and producing huge matches from matchday one, we are delighted that beIN will continue to bring this new era to our subscribers in MENA and Asia. beIN has been home to elite European club football for more than a decade now."
Across MENA and the Asian countries involved in this deal, Qatar-based BeIN is one of the foremost soccer broadcasters, while it is also active across markets such as France and Australia.
In terms of recent activity in these regions, meanwhile, earlier this month the broadcaster unveiled the extension of its deal with the International Tennis Federation to continue showing the men’s Davis Cup and women’s Billie Jean King Cup national team competitions exclusively across MENA (and Australia) through 2026.
Guy-Laurent Epstein, co-managing director at UC3, added: "Fans in 33 countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia will continue to enjoy the new-look UEFA men’s club competitions in addition to the exciting, revamped UEFA Women’s Champions League for the next three years.”
The majority of UEFA club competition media rights deals, especially those covering the men's competitions, run through the three-year 2024-27 cycle, and were therefore completed in the build-up to the current campaign.
