Sports broadcasting contracts in Italy
There are several sports broadcasting contracts in Italy.
Due to an anti-siphoning law known as 8/99, the following sport events must be broadcast for free, even partially, delayed or highlighted:
- The Winter and Summer Olympics
- Every game played by the Italy national football team
- FIFA World Cup final (live compulsory)
- UEFA European Championship final (live compulsory)
- Semi-finals and final of UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, if at least an Italian team is involved.
- All Six Nations matches involving Italy
- Semi-finals and finals of the FIBA World Championship, Waterpolo World Championship, Volleyball World Championship and Rugby World Cup if Italy is involved
- F1 Italian Grand Prix and MotoGP Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
- The Giro d'Italia
- The final and semi-finals of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup if Italy are involved
- World Cycling Championship
Due to their length, Olympics and Giro may be broadcast partially for free.
Football
National teams
- Italy national football team: RAI and YouTube (all men's U21, men's U19, men's U17, women's and futsal teams matches live)
- Germany national football team: YouTube and Mediaset (all men's U21, men's U20 and women's teams matches, live)
- Japan national football team: Sky Sport and YouTube (all men's U23, men's U20 and women's teams matches, live)
FIFA
- 2026 FIFA World Cup: RAI (Italy matches live if involved) and FIFA+ (all matches live)
- 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup: RAI (Italy matches live if involved) and FIFA+ (all matches live)
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: RAI
- 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: RAI (Italy matches live if involved) and FIFA+ (all matches live)
- 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: RAI (Italy matches live if involved) and FIFA+ (all matches live)
- 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: RAI (Italy matches live if involved) and FIFA+ (all matches live)
UEFA
- UEFA Euro 2024: RAI and Sky Sport
- European Qualifiers 2023-24:
- European World Cup qualifiers 2025–26: RAI (all Italy matches live)
- UEFA Nations League:
- UEFA Women's Euro 2025:
- 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship: RAI
- 2023 UEFA European Under-19 Championship: RAI (Italy matches live) and UEFA TV (non-Italy matches live)
- 2023 UEFA European Under-17 Championship: RAI (Italy matches live) and UEFA TV (non-Italy matches live)
- 2023 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: RAI (Italy matches live) and UEFA TV (non-Italy matches live)
- 2023 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: RAI (Italy matches live) and UEFA TV (non-Italy matches live)
CONMEBOL
World
Italy
- Serie A (2023/24)
- Coppa Italia Frecciarossa 2023/24): Mediaset (all matches live from first round onwards)
- Supercoppa Italiana 2023: Mediaset
- Serie BKT 2023/24):
- Serie C:
- ELEVEN (all Regular Season, Play-Off and Play-Out matches live only OTT in a pay-per-view basis) (2022/23)
- RAI (one match per Regular Season matchday and one match per Play-Off round live FTA until 2025)
- Coppa Italia Serie C (2022/23):
- Supercoppa di Serie C (2023):
- Campionato Primavera 1 TIMvision Trofeo Giacinto Facchetti (2022/23 and 2023/24): Sportitalia (all Regular Season, Final Six and Play-Out matches live)
- Primavera TIMvision Cup (2022/23 and 2023/24): Sportitalia (all matches live)
- Supercoppa Primavera TIMvision (2022/23 and 2023/24): Sportitalia (all matches live)
- Serie A TimVision (2022/23)
- TIMVISION (all matches live only OTT)
- Cairo Communication (one match per matchweek live FTA)
- Coppa Italia Ferrovie dello Stato (2022/23)
- TIMVISION (all matches live only OTT)
- Cairo Communication (semi-finals and finals FTA live)
- Supercoppa Italiana femminile (from 2023): Mediaset
- Serie B Femminile (2022/23): ELEVEN (all matches live only OTT)
Europe
- UEFA Champions League 2023/24):
- Sky Sport (121 matches live from play-off round onwards) (until 2026-27)
- Mediaset (one game per matchday on Tuesday from play-off round to semi-finals and final live FTA, 104 matches live from play-off until quarter-finals live only OTT on a pay-per-view basis)
- Amazon Prime Video (one game per matchday on Wednesday live from play-off round to semi-finals) (until 2026-27)
- UEFA Europa League 2023/24):
- Sky Sport (all matches live from group stage onwards)
- DAZN (all matches live from group stage onwards only OTT)
- TV8 (one game per matchday live, possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)
- RAI (one game per matchday live, all match live from group stage onwards)
- UEFA Europa Conference League 2023/24):
- Sky Sport (all matches live from group stage onwards)
- DAZN (all matches live from group stage onwards only OTT)
- TV8 (one game per matchday live, possibility of broadcasting all semi-finals due to law 8/99 if at least an Italian team is involved)
- RAI (one game per matchday live, all match live from group stage onwards)
- UEFA Super Cup (2023): Amazon Prime Video
- UEFA Youth League (2023/24): Sky Sport
- UEFA Women's Champions League (until 2025):
- Premier League (until 2025): Sky Sport (7 matches per matchday live)
- FA (2023/24): DAZN
- EFL: (2023/24): DAZN
- LFP (Spain) (2023/24)
- La Liga: DAZN
- Segunda División:
- DAZN (play-offs matches only, live)
- Copa del Rey (until 2024-25): Telelombardia
- DFL (until 2025): Sky Sport
- DFB-Pokal: YouTube
- LFP (France) (2023/24): Sky Sport
- Coupe de France
- Eredivisie :
- Scottish Professional Football League: Mediaset
- Scottish Cup
- Primeira Liga: YouTube
- Greek Superleague
- Greek Cup: Mola
- Russian Premier League: YouTube (subscription required for live coverage) (until 2022)
- Russian Super Cup (from 2022): Fanatiz
- 3. Liga: YouTube (two matches per matchday live)
- Regionalliga: OneFootball
- Barça TV: Sportitalia
- City TV: Sportitalia
Americas
- CONMEBOL (until 2026): Mola
- CONCACAF Champions League: OneFootball
- Colombian Primera A: Fanatiz
- Liga MX: OneFootball
- Peruvian Primera División: Fanatiz
- Primera Division Argentina (until 2027): Sportitalia (4 matches per matchday live), Mola
- Liga Primera de Nicaragua: Fanatiz
- Copa de la Liga Profesional (until 2027): Sportitalia (4 matches per matchday live)
- Copa Argentina: Fanatiz
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: Sportitalia, OneFootball (2023), Mola
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: Fanatiz
- Major League Soccer (until 2032): Apple TV+ (all matches live)
- National Women's Soccer League: DAZN[1]
- USL Championship: OneFootball
Asia
- AFC Champions League: OneFootball and Sky Sport
- J-League: OneFootball and Sky Sport
- Chinese Super League: Sportitalia
- A-League: DAZN (two matches per matchday live)
- Qatar Stars League: Sportitalia
- Saudi Professional League: Sky Sport
LA7 (One match per matchday live)
American football
- NFL:
- DAZN (at least four matches per week, NFL RedZone, NFL Network, all Play-Offs matches, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl live, Thanksgiving match and SB must be also broadcast on a free operator) (2023/24)
- DAZN (NFL GAME PASS all games per season) (2033)
- NCAA:
- ESPN Player (all Regular Season, Bowl Games and College Football Playoff matches live)
- Helbiz Live (2023/2024)
Baseball
- MLB:
- ESPN Player (all Regular Season matches, All-Star Game, Postseason and World Series matches live)
- Sky Sport (until 2026) (7 Regular Season matches per week live, All-Star Game, selected Postseason games and all World Series games live)
- KBO League (until 2024): ESPN Player
Basketball
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup: ELEVEN (all matches live)
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup Qualifiers: ELEVEN (all matches live)
- 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup: ELEVEN (all matches live)
- EuroBasket 2022: Sky Sport and ELEVEN (all matches live)
- EuroBasket Women (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- 2022 FIBA AmeriCup: ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Women's AmeriCup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Asia Cup: (2022 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Women's Asia Cup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- AfroBasket (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- AfroBasket Women (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup (2023 and 2025): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- FIBA Intercontinental Cup: DAZN
- NBA (2022/23): Sky Sport (12 Regular Season games per week, all NBA All-Star Weekend events, selected Playoffs games and all NBA Finals games live)
- NBL: Live Now
- Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (2022/23 and 2023/24): Sky Sport and ELEVEN
- 7DAYS EuroCup: (2022/23 and 2023/24): Sky Sport and ELEVEN
- Basketball Champions League (from 2022/23): ELEVEN (all matches live)
- Serie A UnipolSai (until 2025):
- PosteMobile Final Eight Coppa Italia (2024 and 2025): ELEVEN and Eurosport (all matches live)
- LBA Supercoppa (2023 and 2024): ELEVEN and Eurosport (all matches live)
- Lega Basket Femminile:
Combat sports
Boxing
- Matchroom Boxing (until 2026): DAZN
- Golden Boy Promotions: DAZN
- Premier Boxing Champions: FITE TV and DAZN
- Top Rank: Mola
- Frank Warren Boxing: Mola
- Boxxer: Mola
- Dream Boxing (until October 2025): DAZN (all fights live)
Kickboxing
- King of Kings (until October 2025): DAZN (all fights live)
MMA
- Bellator MMA (until 31 December 2024): MOLA TV
- Bushido MMA (until October 2025): DAZN (all fights live)
- UFC: DAZN
- ONE Championship: ELEVEN
Wrestling
- WWE (until 30 June 2023):
- Discovery+ (all WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown episodes live, all WWE NXT, WWE Afterburn and WWE Bottom Line episodes)
- WWE Network: (all WWE Pay-per-view events live)
- AEW:
- Sky Sport (all AEW Dynamite and AEW Rampage episodes, all AEW Pay-per-view events live) (until 31 December 2023)
Cycling
- Tour de France (until 2025): RAI, Eurosport
- Giro d'Italia: (until 2025): RAI, Eurosport
- Vuelta a España: Eurosport (until 2023)
- UCI Road World Championships: RAI (until 2024)
- UCI World Tour:
Fencing
Field hockey
- Hockey Series: RAI (finals tournaments only)
Futsal
World
Europe
- UEFA Men's Futsal Euro: TBA (2022)
- UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship: RAI
- UEFA Women's Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv
- UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv
Golf
- 2023 Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
- The Masters: Sky Sport
- U.S. Open: Sky Sport
- The Open Championship: Sky Sport
- PGA Championship: Sky Sport
- PGA Tour (until 2033): Eurosport (all tournaments live)
- DP World Tour (until 2025): Sky Sport (all tournaments live)
- World Golf Championship: Sky Sport (all tournaments live)
Horse racing
Multi-discipline events
- Olympic Games:
- Eurosport (until 2032) (all events live)
- RAI: (360 hours of Paris 2024 events, 250 hours of Milano-Cortina 2026 events, at leat 200 hours of LA 2028 events, at least 100 hours of 2030 Winter Olympics events and at least 200 hours of Brisbane 2032 events live FTA)
- Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: RAI (all events live)
- European Games (2023): TBA
- World University Games: Eurosport
- European Championships: RAI
Motor Racing
- Formula 1 (until 2027):
- FIA Formula 2 Championship (until 2027): Sky Sport (Free Practices, Qualifying and all Races live)
- FIA Formula 3 Championship (until 2027): Sky Sport (Free Practices, Qualifying and all Races live)
- Porsche Mobil 1 Super Cup (until 2027): Sky Sport (Free Practices, Qualifying and all Races live)
- MotoGP-Moto2-Moto3-MotoE (until 2025):
- Superbike World Championship (until 2025):
- Supersport World Championship (until 2025):
- Sky Sport (free practices, qualifying and all races live)
- Supersport 300 World Championship (until 2025)
- Sky Sport (free practices, qualifying and all races live)
- British Superbike Championship (until 2027): Eurosport (all races live)
- FIM Motocross World Championship (2022): Eurosport, RAI (only Italian races live)
- FIM Speedway World Championship (until 2031): Eurosport (all races live)
- FIA World Endurance Championship (until 2025): Eurosport (Qualifying and all races live)
- FIA World Touring Car Cup (until 2030): Eurosport (Qualifying and all races live)
- FIA World Rally Championship:
- Sky Sport
- WRC+ (all stages of all Rallies live on a pay-per-view basis)
- Indycar Series: Sky Sport (until 2024)
- NASCAR (2023): MOLA TV
- Formula E (2022/23):
- DTM: TBA
- Super GT: Nismo TV (YouTube)
Rugby Union
- Rugby World Cup 2023: RAI and Sky Sport
- Guinness Six Nations (until 2025): Sky Sport (all matches live)
- The Rugby Championship: Sky Sport (all matches live)
- Autumn Nations Series: Sky Sport (all test matches live)
- European Rugby Champions Cup (from 2022/23): Sky Sport
- European Rugby Challenge Cup (from 2022/23): Sky Sport, Eleven Sports
- United Rugby Championship 2022/23: Eurosport (all matches live)
- Mitre 10 Cup: Sky Sport
- Super Rugby Aotearoa: Sky Sport
- Super Rugby AU: Sky Sport
- Premiership Rugby: MOLA TV
Sailing
- America's Cup: -
- Volvo Ocean Race: -
- Louis Vuitton Pacific Series: -
- Clipper Round the World Yacht Race: -
- Barcolana regatta: -
- SailGP: ELEVEN (all events live)
Winter Sports
Alpine Skiing
- FIS Alpine Ski World Cup:
- FIS Alpine World Ski Championships:
- RAI (2023)
- Eurosport (2023 and 2025)
Cross-Country Skiing & Nordic Combined
- FIS Cross-Country World Cup:
- Eurosport (until 2026)
- RAI
- FIS Nordic Combined World Cup: Eurosport (until 2021)
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships:
- Eurosport (2023 and 2025)
Ski Jumping & Ski Flying
- FIS Ski Jumping World Cup:
- Eurosport (until 2026)
- RAI
- FIS Ski Flying World Championships: Eurosport and RAI (until 2024)
Biathlon
- IBU Biathlon World Cup: Eurosport (until 2026)
- IBU World Championships: Eurosport (until 2026)
- IBU Cup: Eurosport (until 2026)
- Biathlon Junior World Championships: Eurosport (until 2026)
- Biathlon European Championships: Eurosport (until 2026)
- Summer Biathlon World Championships: Eurosport (until 2026)
Freestyle Skiing
- FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup: Eurosport (until 2026)
Snowboarding
- FIS Snowboard World Cup:
- Eurosport (until 2026)
- RAI
- FIS Snowboard World Championships: RAI
Luge
Figure Skating
- ISU World Figure Skating Championships (2022 and 2023): RAI, Eurosport
- ISU European Figure Skating Championships (2022 and 2023): RAI, Eurosport
- ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating (2022 and 2023): RAI, Eurosport
Tennis
- Davis Cup (2023 and 2024):
- Sky Sport (all World Group matches live)
- SuperTennis
- RAI (all Italy matches live)
- Bille Jean King Cup: (2023) SuperTennis (all World Group matches live, all Italy matches live)
- The Slam:
- Australian Open (until 2031): Eurosport
- French Open (until 2026): Eurosport
- Wimbledon (until 2026): Sky Sport
- US Open (until 2027): SuperTennis
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (until 2028):
- Sky Sport (all tournaments live)
- SuperTennis (one match a day per tournament FTA delayed) (2023)
- ATP Finals (until 2028):
- ATP World Tour 500 series (2023):
- SuperTennis (all tournaments live) (2023)
- Sky Sport (5 tournaments live on 2023, all tournaments live from 2024 to 2028)
- ATP World Tour 250 series (2023):
- SuperTennis (all tournaments live)
- Sky Sport (8 tournaments live on 2023, all tournaments live from 2024 to 2028)
- NextGen ATP Finals (until 2028):
- SuperTennis (all matches live) (2023)
- Sky Sport (all matches live)
- Laver Cup (until 2030): Eurosport
- United Cup: SuperTennis (all matches live)
- WTA Tour:
- SuperTennis (all WTA1000, WTA500 and WTA250 tournaments live) (2023)
- Sky Sport (all WTA1000, WTA500 and WTA250 tournaments live from 2024 to 2028)
- WTA Finals:
- SuperTennis (all matches live) (2023)
- Sky Sport (all matches live from 2024 to 2028)
Volleyball
- FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship: RAI Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship: RAI Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- 2023 CEV EuroVolley: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- 2023 CEV EuroVolley Women: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League: Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League: Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- CEV Champions League:
- CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- Eurosport (all matches live) (2022–23)
- CEV Women's Champions League
- CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- Eurosport (all matches live) (2022–23)
- CEV Volleyball Cup: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- CEV Women's Volleyball Cup: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- CEV Volleyball Challenge Cup: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- CEV Women's Volleyball Challenge Cup: CEV EuroVolley TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- SuperLega Credem Banca:
- Volleyball World TV (all Regular Season and Play-Off matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- RAI (two matches per Regular Season matchday live, one match of Quarter-Final per game and all Semi-Finals and Finals matches live)
- Del Monte Coppa Italia SuperLega:
- Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- RAI (all Final Four matches live)
- Del Monte Supercoppa SuperLega:
- Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- RAI (all matches live)
- Serie A2 Credem Banca: YouTube (all Regular Season, play-off and play-out matches live)
- Del Monte Coppa Italia A2: YouTube (all matches live)
- Del Monte Supercoppa A2: YouTube (all matches live)
- Serie A3 Credem Banca: Legavolley.tv (all Regular Season, play-off and play-out matches live)
- Del Monte Coppa Italia A3: Legavolley.tv (all Regular Season, play-off and play-out matches live)
- Del Monte Supercoppa A3: Legavolley.tv (all Regular Season, play-off and play-out matches live)
- Serie A1 Femminile:
- Volleyball World TV (all Regular Season and Play-off matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- RAI: (one match per Regular Season matchday live, one match of Quarter-Final per game and all Semi-Finals and Finals matches live) (2022/23)
- Sky Sport: (one per Regular Season matchday live, selected Quarter-Final and Semi-Finals matches and all Finals matches live) (2022/23)
- Coppa Italia A1 Femminile:
- Volleyball World TV (all matches live on a pay-per-view basis)
- RAI (all Final Four matches live) (2023)
- Supercoppa Italiana A1 Femminile (2022): RAI
References
- Lucia, Joe (24 March 2023). "NWSL launches international streaming service with Endeavor, also strikes deal with DAZN". Awful Announcing. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
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