US media giant Fox, operator of the Fox Sports group of linear pay-TV networks, has unveiled coverage rights for the 2025 UEFA Women’s European Championship national teams soccer tournament.
Fox has snapped up rights in place of sports broadcaster ESPN, which held rights for the 2022 edition of the Women’s Euros.
The 2025 tournament, set to contain 16 teams, will be held in Switzerland between July 2 and 27 next year.
This gives Fox rights to all the next three editions of the Euros - it is covering the ongoing men’s Euro 2024 and holds rights to the 2028 edition of that quadrennial tournament through a deal announced in November 2021 and estimated by GlobalData as being worth $270 million in total.
Fox confirmed its Euro 2025 coverage during its halftime coverage of a game between the US and Bolivia men’s sides last night (June 23).
Aside from showing the Euros (men’s and women’s editions), Fox also covers soccer properties including the FIFA World Cup (men’s and women’s editions), South America’s Copa America, and the North and Central American Gold Cup.
In terms of media rights in the US to other top-tier women’s soccer, meanwhile, the domestic NWSL is shown by a combination of Amazon, CBS, ESPN, and Scripps.
Earlier this month, Fox agreed a new deal to become the exclusive broadcaster of IndyCar, the country’s elite-tier series of open-wheel motor racing.
The deal will see every race in the 2025 Indycar season, and the qualifying rounds for the annual showpiece Indianapolis 500, broadcast across Fox’s slate of networks, with 19 scheduled domestic broadcast windows the most in the competition’s history.
Deals covering Euro 2025, meanwhile, have so far been struck in Spain, France, and sub-Saharan Africa.
The CAA Eleven agency is working as UEFA’s rights sales partner for its national team competitions during the 2022-28 cycle.
England hosted (and won) the last Women's Euros, in 2022.