Sports broadcasting contracts in Brazil
Among the sports broadcasters in Brazil are the subscription channels ESPN, SporTV, and BandSports; the pay-per-view channels Premiere FC, Combate and Nosso Futebol; and the subscription video streaming services HBO Max, Star+, DAZN and Eleven Sports.
Association Football (Soccer)
National Championships
- Rede Globo
- SporTV
- Premiere
- Band
- TNT Sports (via HBO Max or TNT/Space due to the end of the channel)
- DAZN Brasil
- Eleven Sports Brasil
- Nosso Futebol
- TV Brasil
Globo broadcasts games of the First Division (Série A) only, on Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoon. The games are regionally divided. Globo has the rights to broadcast all games.
SporTV broadcasts games from both First and Second Division (Série B). On the first division, SporTV can only broadcast games from: Atlético-GO, Atlético-MG, Botafogo, Bragantino, Corinthians, Flamengo, Fluminense, Goiás, Grêmio, São Paulo, Sport and Vasco. On the second division, SporTV has the rights to broadcast all games, but the channel reserves some games for its sister PPV channel, Premiere.[1]
Premiere (Globo's PPV channel) has the rights to broadcast games from both First and Second Division. On the first division, Premiere can broadcast games from all teams, except Athletico-PR at home (19 games). On the second division, Premiere has the rights to broadcast all games.
TNT Sports (HBO Max), rights to broadcast games from Athletico playing at home (19 games). and CazéTV (channels on YouTube and Twitch) also got the rights for the Athletico home games, available only for Youtube members and Twitch subscribers of the channel.
Band broadcasts the Second Division (Série B) only, having the rights of four games per week. Two games with national broadcast and other two regionally broadcast.
DAZN and Nosso Futebol broadcasts most part of the games from the Third Division (Série C). Canal GOAT (Channels on Youtube, Facebook and Onefootball) shares the rights and broadcasts two games per week.[2]
Eleven Sports (app) and TV Brasil share the rights for most part of the games from the Fourth Division (Série D).
State championships
Globo, SporTV and Premiere also broadcast the major part of the pre-season state championships. In 2020, Globo and FERJ had a disagreement, due to broadcasting rights for Flamengo's games. FERJ deactivated their contract with Globo, allowing teams to choose whether or not broadcast their games on the TV channel. Flamengo and multiple teams chose to broadcast their remaining games on their respective channels on YouTube. The final game was broadcast by SBT after negotiations between the channel and Flamengo and Fluminense FC.[3]
Copa do Brasil (Brazil Cup)
Globo, SporTV and Premiere broadcast all the Copa do Brasil games.
FA Cup (England)
EFL Cup (England)
La Liga (Spain)
Eredivisie (Netherlands)
Bundesliga (Germany)
- SporTV
- Onefootball (App)
- TV Cultura
- CazéTV (Youtube and Twitch)
- Canal GOAT (YouTube and Facebook)
- Nosso Futebol
Onefootball broadcasts all Bundesliga matches. SporTV, pay-per-view channel Nosso Futebol, and GOAT channels on YouTube and Facebook broadcast two games per week, CazéTV's channels on YouTube and Twitch broadcast one game per week.
2. Bundesliga (Germany)
- Onefootball (App)
Ligue 1 (France)
Primeira Liga (Portugal)
Super League Greece 1
Scottish Premiership (Scotland)
Jupiler Pro League(Belgium)
Süper Lig (Turkey)
Swiss Super League (Switzerland)
- Onefootball (App)
Fortuna Liga (Czech Republic)
- Onefootball (App)
Superligaen (Denmark)
- Onefootball (App)
Kazakh Premier League (Kazakhstan)
- Eleven Sports
- Onefootball (App)
Besta deild karla (Iceland)
- Onefootball (App)
UEFA Champions League
- SBT
- TNT Sports (via TNT/Space)
- HBO Max
UEFA Europa League
UEFA Super Cup
- SBT
- TNT Sports (via TNT/Space)
UEFA European Championship
SporTV will broadcast 26 of 51 games of UEFA Euro 2024, Globo will broadcast one match of each playoff phase.
Copa Libertadores
Copa Sudamericana
LPF (Argentina)
Primera División (Uruguay)
Liga Pro (Ecuador)
Liga MX (Mexico)
MLS (United States)
- MLS Season Pass through the app Apple TV
The streaming service Apple TV+ broadcasts six matches per week without additional cost.
NWSL (United States)
- DAZN[5]
- Canal GOAT (Youtube, Facebook and Onefootball)
USL (United States)
- Star+ (League One)
- Eleven Sports (League Two)
FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
SporTV broadcasts all games. Globo broadcasts all games of Brazil.
Copa América
- TBA
Copa Libertadores Femenina
- TV Globo
- BandSports
- SporTV
- BandSports
- Paramount+
- Pluto TV
- Canal GOAT(YouTube, Facebook and Onefootball)
Saudi Pro League (Saudi Arabia)
- Band
- BandSports
- Canal GOAT (YouTube, Facebook and Onefootball)
King Cup (Saudi Arabia)
K League 1 (South Korea)
- Onefootball (App)
Chinese Super League (China)
- Onefootball (App)
A-League (Australia)
- Onefootball (App)
AFC Champions League
FIFA Club World Cup
FIFA World Cup
FIFA Women's World Cup
- Rede Globo
- SporTV
- CazéTV (Youtube and Twitch)
Brazilian national team games
Athletics
Diamond League
Marathons
Some important World Marathon Majors, such as the New York City, London, Berlin and Tokyo marathons, and other major competitions like the Paris and Sydney marathons, among others, are split between these two channels.
Saint Silvester Road Race
World Athletics Series
Some major competitions like the World Athletics Championships are transmitted by this channel.
Baseball
MLB
ESPN only broadcasts games that are originally broadcast by the american ESPN.
LMB
Basketball
College Basketball (USA)
NBA
ESPN mostly broadcasts games originally broadcast by the american ESPN. Prime Video usually broadcasts games aired on TNT in the US, but using the graphic package of the NBA International League Pass. The same applies to Band in terms of graphic package, but the station only has the rights to broadcast games on Sunday and Thursday nights.[6] The NBA Brazil channel on YouTube started to occasionally broadcast games after a partnership with Budweiser.[7]
FIBA Basketball World Cup
WNBA
Basketball Africa League
EuroLeague
Beach Soccer
Globo broadcasts beach soccer games on a segment inside Esporte Espetacular (Spetacular Sport), a classic Sunday morning sports show. SporTV broadcasts the major part of the games, including the World Cup and Band Sports usually broadcasts the South American Cup.
Cricket
Cycling
Road cycling
- ESPN Brasil (major events, including the Grand Tour)
- Rai Italia (only the Giro d'Italia)
Rai Italia broadcasts their signal in their international feed, which includes Brazil.
Track cycling
- SporTV (only major competitions, such as the World Championships)
College Sports
- Star+ airs NCAA in the following sports: American Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Lacrosse and Volleyball
Combat Sports
Boxing
- ESPN Brasil
- Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
Judo
- Judo Grand Slam and Judo World Masters: SporTV, NSports through "Canal Olímpico do Brasil" and Combate
Kickboxing
- King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- WGP Kickboxing: Combate
Mixed Martial Arts
- Bellator MMA: ESPN Brasil
- Bushido MMA: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
- Invicta Fighting Championships: Combate
- Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki: Combate
- One Championship: Combate
- Professional Fighters League: Combate
- Rizin Fighting Federation: Combate
- UFC: *UFC Fight Pass
Futsal
FIFA Futsal World Cup
Globo broadcasts the final of the World Cup on a segment inside Esporte Espetacular if Brazil is participating. SporTV (Globo's sports channel) broadcasts the whole tournament.
LNF
SporTV broadcasts the major part of the games, TV Brasil covers the small part of the games and Globo broadcasts the final of the tournament on a segment inside Esporte Espetacular.
Golf
- ESPN Brasil (important events, including the major championships)
Gridiron Football
College Football (USA)
NFL
- NFL Game Pass through DAZN
- ESPN Brasil
- Star+
- RedeTV!
NFL Game Pass broadcasts all games. ESPN Brazil broadcasts at least four games on Sunday. Star+ broadcasts at least two games on Sunday, and both ESPN and Star+ broadcast all primetime games despite the original network (CBS, FOX, NBC and ESPN). Star+ also broadcasts NFL RedZone on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Free-to-air channel RedeTV! broadcast one Sunday afternoon game per week and two playoffs games per week including Super Bowl. [8]
USFL
XFL
WNFC
AFL
Handball
- Star+: European Men's Handball Championship; European Women's Handball Championship
Lacrosse
- Star+
Major League Lacrosse
National Lacrosse League
Premier Lacrosse League
Motor Sports
Copa HB20
Dakar Rally
DTM
F1
After 27 years, Globo lost the F1 broadcasting rights to Band. The second, now broadcasts the races on Sundays live and on free-to-air TV. The Free Practices and Qualifying are broadcast on BandSports, Band's sports network only available on cable TV.[10]
F2
F3
FE
IndyCar Series
- Band (Indianapolis 500 only)
- BandSports
- DAZN
Mercedes-Benz Challenge
NASCAR
Porsche Carrera Cup Brasil
Stock Car Light
WRC
MotoGP
Superbike Brasil
Olympic Games
Globo broadcast all the Olympic Games in the modern era so far, with the exception of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2010 Winter Olympics.
SporTV, Globo's sports channel on cable television, broadcast all the games. In the 2016 Summer Olympics, the channel launched 13 HD extra channels on cable to celebrate and broadcast all of the events of the Rio Olympics. The channels were available on most cable providers and anyone with a SporTV subscription already included in their account could access them.[12]
Globoplay, Globo's streaming service, started to broadcast the Olympics in the 2020 Summer Olympics. The service provided users that paid for the "Globoplay + Live Channels" plan with 52 live OBS feeds with no commentary. In a partnership with NHK, Globoplay provided users with 8K special broadcasts in the same games.[13]
Padel
- ESPN Premier Padel and APT Padel Tour.
Rugby
Rugby sevens
- BandSports (only major competitions, such as the World Cup)
- ESPN Brasil (only the World Rugby Sevens Series)
Rugby union
ESPN has the rights to broadcast all the major rugby tournaments. Such as Six Nations and World Cup
Skateboarding
Surfing
- ESPN Brasil (only the WSL)
Table Tennis
Tennis
- ESPN Brasil and Star+ (Australian Open and U.S. Open as well as ATP Finals, ATP Masters 1000, ATP 500, ATP 250, WTA Finals, WTA 1000, WTA 500 and WTA 250)
- SporTV (U.S. Open and Wimbledon)
- BandSports (French Open)
Volleyball
- SporTV airs the FIVB and South American indoor and beach volleyball tournaments, and the Brazilian Men's Volleyball Superliga, Brazilian Women's Volleyball Superliga and Brazilian Beach Volleyball Circuit. Rede Globo broadcasts the Superliga final games on a segment inside Esporte Espetacular.
- NSports also airs Brazilian Men's Volleyball Superliga and Brazilian Women's Volleyball Superliga through "Canal Vôlei Brasil"
- Star+ airs the Italian Volleyball League.
Winter Sports
- SporTV (major events, like World Cups and World Championships, in most sports)
- ESPN Brasil (only major figure skating championships)
World Championships
X Games
- ESPN Brasil (both Summer and Winter)
References
- "Tabela Brasileirão 2020: jogos na Turner (TNT e Space)". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese).
- "Brasileirão Série C | Assistir jogos da Série C ao vivo no DAZN". Podecomparar (in Brazilian Portuguese). 28 October 2020.
- "SBT garante transmissão da final do Campeonato Carioca". Observatório da TV. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- "Premier League está de volta com partidas pela TV e internet; veja como assistir". Canaltech (in Brazilian Portuguese). 17 June 2020.
- Lucia, Joe (24 March 2023). "NWSL launches international streaming service with Endeavor, also strikes deal with DAZN". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- Brasil, UOL. "NBA e Band renovam contrato; emissora transmitirá dois jogos por semana". UOL (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- .com, Youtube. "Watch: Golden State Warriors x Chicago Bulls - LIVE". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- "Como assistir aos jogos da NFL no Brasil". Endzone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese).
- "Brasil Bowl X: Como assistir AO VIVO na TV a decisão da Liga BFA 2019". Torcedores.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 14 December 2019.
- "F1: Band confirma corridas na TV aberta e classificações no Bandsports".
- "Olímpiadas de Tóquio: Onde assistir na internet e na televisão". 24 July 2021.
- "SporTV anuncia programação dos 16 canais em HD para os Jogos do Rio".
- "Globoplay oferece acesso à transmissão de provas das Olimpíadas de Tóquio em 8K".
- "Final Stanley Cup 2020: Tampa Bay Lightning x Dallas Stars". The Playoffs (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 September 2020.