The DFL have announced the new national TV rights for the upcoming 2025-26 season and will last until the 2028-29 season.
If you are not in Germany (which Is likely) this will not impact your watching experience at all. Currently, if you are in the US, ESPN is your provider, Canada is DAZN while if you are in the UK you have been cursed with Sky Sports but their deal expires at the end of the season, so hopeful it will be the end of their poor coverage.
Anyway,
The new national deal will bring in €1.121 billion per season for all 36 Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga clubs. This amount, on top of the international rights amounts to €4.484 billion. This means that Germany has the second highest TV rights deal after the Premier League.
When it comes to where the coverage is, Sky Germany will have the majority of the coverage having every 2.Bundesliga game as well as every Bundesliga game from Friday evening to Saturday’s TopSpiel. DAZN will keep their Sunday games, but the biggest talking point from the new rights deal is the move of the Konferenz programme from Sky to DAZN.
The Konferenz covers every Bundesliga game on Saturday afternoon and will update you with every goal, red card and development. It has been on Sky ever since the Bundesliga moved to its predecessor Premiere TV.
ARD and ZDF maintain their rights for free to air highlights of the Bundesliga on Saturday evenings. ARD airs the highlights first on their Sportschau programme while ZDF will show them later, on Aktuelle Sportstudio which will include the highlights from the 6:30 pm kick-off. Elsewhere, the Saturday night game in the 2.Bundesliga moves from Sport1 to RTL.
GGFN | Jack Meenan
