List of Scottish Professional Football League broadcasters

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This is a list of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL), the top four levels of competition of football in Scotland.

History[]

The SPFL was formed in 2013 by a merger of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) and Scottish Football League (SFL).^[1] The league inherited media rights arrangements made by the SPL and SFL with Sky Sports and BT Sport.^[1] The domestic rights deal was amended in 2014, following the relegation of Edinburgh clubs Hearts and Hibernian to the Scottish Championship.^[2]

In 2013, SPFL sold its international broadcast rights in a £20 million, 10-year deal with sports content distributor MP & Silva. As part of this arrangement, in November 2013 a Chinese network PPLive TV agreed to show 58 live SPFL games a season.^[3] A deal was agreed in July 2015 for up to 55 SPFL matches to be shown on "mainstream" Chinese television in the following three seasons, as part of the longer-term arrangement made in November 2013.^[4] The agreement with MP & Silva was rescinded in August 2018, as it had defaulted on its payments.^[5]

In 2018, it was announced that Sky Sports will take over exclusive live rights for the Premiership from the 2020–21 season.^[6]

Broadcasters[]

Country/region	Broadcaster	Language	Summary
United Kingdom	Sky Sports	English	48 live Premiership matches per season from 2020 to 2025 and the play-off final, Saturday-night goal highlights on Sky Sports News.[7][8]
	BBC Sport Scotland		Saturday-night Scottish Premiership Highlights of matches from that day. Extended Sunday-night Scottish Premiership Highlights with full weekend review, 20 live Friday-night Scottish Championship matches & the Scottish Premiership Play-Off Quarter-Final & Semi-Final. Friday night magazine programme A View from the Terrace. Online and Social Media Highlights also.
	STV		Goal Clips during the Sports section of their STV News at Six programme.
	BBC Alba	Gaelic	38 delayed matches on Saturday evenings and live Championship and League One Playoff Matches.
Worldwide	YouTube	English (N/A)	6-10 minute highlights of all Premiership Matches as well as Championship, Leagues One and Two goals available without commentary/narration via the SPFL Youtube Channel.

International[]

Country/region	Broadcaster
Albania	Tring Sport
Australia	beIN Sports
Brunei
Cambodia
Hong Kong
Laos
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
Thailand
Armenia	Setanta Sports
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Ukraine
Austria	Sport1
Belgium	Eleven Sports
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Arena Sport
Croatia
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Serbia
Slovenia
Brazil	ESPN
Canada	OneFootball[9]
France
Spain
Caribbean	ESPN
China	Zhibo.tv
Czech Republic	Premier Sport
Slovakia
Denmark	NENT
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Germany	Sport1
Greece	Cosmote Sport
Hungary	Arena4
Indian subcontinent	Voot
Ireland	Sky Sports
Israel	Sport 5
Italy	OneFootball
Japan	DAZN
Latin America	ESPN
Liechtenstein	Sport1
Luxembourg	Eleven Sports, Sport1
Netherlands	Ziggo Sport
Philippines	Premier Football
Poland	Polsat Sport
Portugal	Eleven Sports
Romania	Look Sport
Russia	Match TV
Sub-Saharan Africa	ESPN
Switzerland	OneFootball, Sport1,
Turkey	S Sport
United States	CBS Sports Network / Paramount+[10]
Puerto Rico

Club online streams[]

Due to broadcasting restrictions, clubs cannot show games live in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. However, during social distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic clubs in the Premiership will be able to broadcast games in the UK and Ireland, as long as they're not already scheduled to be broadcast by Sky Sports.

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