Sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand
This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in New Zealand. For a list of other countries' broadcasting rights, see Sports television broadcast contracts.
Association football
Football
From 2019 until 2023, the match aired on Sky Sport is also available on beIN Sports platforms due to Sky-beIN four-year partnership contract.[1]
Leagues
- A-League Men: Sky Sport
- A-League Women: Sky Sport
- J-League: YouTube (one match per week via COPA90)
- K-League: YouTube (one match per week via COPA90)
- English Premier League: Spark Sport
- English Football Leagues: beIN Sports
- FA Women's Super League: Spark Sport
- La Liga: beIN Sports
- La Liga 2: YouTube (regular season) & beIN Sports (play-offs)
- Serie A: beIN Sports
- Ligue 1: beIN Sports
- New Zealand National League: Sky Sport
- New Zealand Northern League, Central League, Southern League: New Zealand Football YouTube Channel
- Bundesliga: beIN Sports
- Belgian First Division: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Scottish Premiership: beIN Sports
- Major League Soccer: ESPN, beIN Sports[2]
- Argentine Primera División: Fanatiz
- Campeonato Brasileiro: Fanatiz
- Indian Super League: Onefootball
Domestic cups
- English FA Cup: Sky Sport
- FA Community Shield: Sky Sport
- EFL Cup: beIN Sports
- Belgian Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Belgian Super Cup: ESPN (only on Watch ESPN)
- Scottish Challenge Cup: beIN Sports
- Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: ESPN
- FFA Cup: Sky Sport
- Chatham Cup: Sky Sport (final only), New Zealand Football YouTube Channel
- Kate Sheppard Cup: Sky Sport (final only), New Zealand Football YouTube Channel
International club competitions
- UEFA Champions League: Spark Sport (through 2024)
- UEFA Europa League: Spark Sport (through 2024)
- UEFA Europa Conference League: Spark Sport (through 2024)
- UEFA Super Cup: Spark Sport (through 2024)
- UEFA Women's Champions League: DAZN and YouTube
- UEFA Youth League: UEFA.tv
- OFC Champions League: TBA
- CONMEBOL Libertadores: beIN Sports (through 2022)
- CONMEBOL Sudamericana: beIN Sports (through 2022)
- CONMEBOL Recopa: beIN Sports (through 2022)
- CONCACAF Champions League: CONCACAF YouTube Channel
- CONCACAF League: CONCACAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Champions League: CAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Confederation Cup: CAF YouTube Channel
- CAF Super Cup: CAF YouTube Channel
- AFC Champions League: TBA
- FIFA Club World Cup: Sky Sport (2021 and 2022)
- International Champions Cup: beIN Sports
- Florida Cup: beIN Sports
International matches
International tournaments
- FIFA World Cups (2021 - 2023)
- Men's:
- Men's Football World Cup: Sky Sport, TVNZ (Selected matches only)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: Sky Sport
- FIFA U-17 World Cup: Sky Sport
- Women's:
- Women's Football World Cup: Sky Sport, TVNZ (Selected matches only)
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
- FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Sky Sport
- Men's:
- UEFA
- UEFA Euro 2024: TBA
- UEFA Nations League: Spark Sport
- 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship: UEFA.tv
- 2019 UEFA European Under-19 Championship: UEFA.tv
- 2019 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: UEFA.tv
- 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship: YouTube
- 2019 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: YouTube
- Copa America 2024: TBA
- CONCACAF Gold Cup 2023: TBA
- Asian Cup 2023: Sky Sport
- African Cup of Nations 2023: beIN Sports
- WAFU Nations Cup: ESPN
- Toulon Tournament: ESPN
Beach Soccer
- FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: Sky Sport (2019 and 2021)
International tournaments
- FIFA Futsal World Cup: Sky Sport
- UEFA Futsal Euro: TBA
- UEFA Under-19 Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv
- UEFA Women's Futsal Euro: UEFA.tv (final four only)
International club competitions
- UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv (final four only)
Athletics
- IAAF Golden League:
- Sky Sport: Highlights, plus some live coverage.
- Grenada Invitational: ESPN
Australian rules football
- Australian Football League
- Sky Sport: One live game per week, plus weekly highlights.
Baseball
- Major League Baseball (Regular season, Playoffs and World Series): ESPN.
- College baseball: ESPN
- Little League World Series: ESPN
- World Baseball Classic: ESPN
- USA Softball International Cup: ESPN
Basketball
- National Basketball League: Sky Sport
- National Basketball League (Australia):
- Sky Sport has one game every Thursday night; live coverage of Semifinal, and Grand Final.
- National Basketball Association: ESPN, NBA TV International
- Women's National Basketball Association: ESPN
- College basketball: ESPN
- NBA Summer League: ESPN
- NBA G League: ESPN
- The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
Cricket
- New Zealand Cricket - Home Domestic and International Cricket:
- Spark Sport (2020-2025)
- Home internationals involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams
- Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash
- The Ford Trophy final
- TVNZ (2020-2025): Live coverage of the first T20 International of a home series involving the New Zealand men's and women's cricket teams. Live coverage of most matches from the Super Smash domestic competitions.
- Spark Sport (2020-2025)
- Overseas cricket:
- Sky Sport:
- International fixtures - Cricket Australia, BCCI (India), Cricket South Africa, Cricket West Indies and Pakistan Cricket Board.
- Australian domestic competitions: Sheffield Shield, One-Day Cup, Women's National Cricket League, Big Bash League and Women's Big Bash League.
- Indian Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Super50 Cup and Pakistan Super League.
- Prime: Highlights and selected live coverage. Free to air partner, showing what Sky allocates to it.
- Spark Sport
- Sky Sport:
- ICC
- Sky Sport: All major ICC events live.
- Prime: Live coverage of a selection matches involving the New Zealand cricket team. Highlights of other events or matches.
- Spark Sport: Highlights of all major ICC events.
Cycling
eSports
Field hockey
- Men's and Women's Hockey World Cups: Spark Sport
- Men's and Women's Hockey Pro Leagues: Spark Sport
Golf
- Australian Open: Spark Sport (2019-2020)
- The Open Championship: Sky Sport
- Ryder Cup: Sky Sport
- European Tour: Sky Sport
- PGA Tour: Sky Sport
- U.S. Open: Sky Sport
- U.S. Masters: Sky Sport
- New Zealand PGA Championship: TV3
- World Golf Championships : Sky Sport
- World Cup : Sky Sport
- New Zealand Open : Sky Sport
- LPGA Tour : SKY Sport (New Zealand)
- Evian Masters : Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Gridiron football
- National Football League:
- ESPN: NFL Network games, two Sunday afternoon games, Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. All play-off games.
- Sky Sport: One live game every Monday night in HD (where available)
- Spark Sport: NFL Network games, two Sunday afternoon matches, Sunday Night Football, 10 play-offs games, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl.
- Super Bowl: ESPN and Spark Sport
- College football: ESPN
Horse-racing
- All New Zealand domestic race meetings: Trackside
- All international race meetings: Trackside
- Selected thoroughbred and harness meets: Prime
- Melbourne Cup: Trackside, TVNZ
- Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Trackside
Ice Hockey
Lacrosse
Mixed Martial Arts
- Ultimate Fighting Championship: ESPN (Fight Night and PPV preliminaries), Sky Arena and Spark Sport (PPVs)
- ONE Championship: Spark Sport
Motor racing
- FIA Formula One: Spark Sport
- Porsche Supercup: Spark Sport
- Formula 2: Spark Sport
- Formula 3: Spark Sport
- Formula E: Sky Sport (live), Three (highlights)
- IndyCar Series: Sky Sport
- AMA Supercross Championship: ESPN
- Australian Supercars Championship: Sky Sport (Includes support categories)
- Dunlop Super2 Series: Sky Sport (Live with Supercars Championship) Three (Delayed)
- NZ Touring Cars Championship: Three (delayed coverage)
- DTM: Spark Sport (live), Three (highlights)
- WTCC: Three (highlights)
- World Rally Championship: Spark Sport
- World Rallycross Championship: Spark Sport
- MotoGP: Spark Sport
- Superbike World Championship: Sky Sport
- Speedway Grand Prix: Sky Sport (delayed coverage)
- NASCAR: (TBA)
- BTCC:Three (delayed coverage)
- W Series: Sky Sport
Multi-discipline events
- Commonwealth Games: TVNZ (2018); Sky Sport and Prime (2022 and 2026)
- Summer Olympics: Sky Sport and TVNZ (2020)
- Winter Olympics: Sky Sport and Prime
- Paralympics Games: TVNZ
Netball
- ANZ Premiership:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games, elimination final and grand final)
- INF Netball World Cup:
- Sky Sport (2019)
- International Netball:
- Sky Sport (live coverage)
- Beko Netball League:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
- Suncorp Super Netball:
- Spark Sport (live coverage of all games)
Poker
Rugby league
- National Rugby League:
- New South Wales Cup:
- Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
- NZRL National Premiership
- State of Origin:
- Super League:
- Rugby League Challenge Cup:
- Four Nations:
Rugby union
- Rugby World Cup: TVNZ & Spark Sport (2019)
- The Rugby Championship:
- Super Rugby:
- College 1st XV coverage
- Sky Sport Live and delayed coverage and highlights of televised matches during the week.
- Currie Cup: Sky Sport
- European Rugby Champions Cup: Spark Sport
- National Provincial Championship:
- Six Nations Championship: Sky Sport
- Gallagher Premiership: Sky Sport
- Pro14: Sky Sport
- Anglo-Welsh Cup: Sky Sport
Swimming
- FINA World Aquatics Championships: Sky Sport
- ISL: ESPN (Watch ESPN)
Tennis
- Australian Open: Sky Sport
- French Open: Sky Sport
- The Championships, Wimbledon: Sky Sport[4]
- U.S. Open: ESPN
- ATP Finals: ESPN
- ATP Tour Masters 1000: ESPN
- ATP Tour 500: ESPN
- Next Generation ATP Finals: ESPN
- WTA Tour: Spark Sport
- ASB Classic: Sky Sport[5]
- Laver Cup: ESPN
- Davis Cup: Sky Sport
- Fed Cup: Sky Sport
References
- "Champions League and La Liga headline Sky NZ's co-branded BeIN channel - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
- "beIN acquires MLS rights in Asia-Pacific to 2022". SportBusiness. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- "OVO Australia Broadcast Deal Announced". BWF. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
- Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.
- Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.
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