The English Premier League (EPL) top-tier soccer competition will be covered during the next broadcast cycle in Mexico by a combination of Fox Sports, TNT Sports, and HBO Max, it has been revealed.
This has come after the league’s previous Mexican media rights deal, an agreement with Paramount+, was canceled.
Fox will show 50% of EPL fixtures during 2024-25, which starts on August 16, with the other half to be shown by the HBO Max and TNT Sports services owned by media heavyweight Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal, in total, runs through 2027-28.
The Paramount+ tie-up, across all of Central America and also involving Pluto TV, was originally struck in January 2022, covering the 2022-25 cycle. GlobalData Sport had valued it at $65 million per year.
Before that, Sky Mexico had held rights.
Mexican players currently playing their trade in the Premier League include Raul Jimenez at Fulham and Edson Álvarez at West Ham United.
Max and TNT Sports, meanwhile, will also show action from English soccer’s domestic FA Cup knockout competition for the next four campaigns.
In total, the platform will cover 190 EPL fixtures per season, as well as 40 from the FA Cup.
In terms of recent EPL media rights deals, global sports streaming heavyweight DAZN struck renewals in both Spain and Portugal earlier this week.
Late July saw Saran Media disclose an exclusive agreement across a range of Eastern European and Central Asian territories - a deal that also included the FA Cup.
