Sports broadcasting contracts in Italy

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This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in Italy. For a list of broadcasting rights in other countries, see Sports television broadcast 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 Italian 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[]

FIFA[]

UEFA[]

CONMEBOL[]

CAF[]

  • 2023 Africa Cup of Nations: TBA

Clubs[]

World[]

Italy[]

  • Serie A (until )
    • DAZN (266 matches live, 114 matches live only OTT)
    • Sky Sport (114 matches live)
    • RAI and Mediaset (highlights)
  • Serie B (until ):
    • Sky Sport (all matches live)
    • DAZN and (all matches live only OTT)
  • Serie C:
    • Eleven Sports (2021/22 and 2022/23) (all Regular Season, Play-Off and Play-Out matches live only OTT in a pay-per-view basis)
    • RAI (2021–22) (50 matches live)
    • Sky Sport (2021–22) (8 matches per Regular Season matchday live, all play-off and play-out matches, except those broadcast by RAI, live)
  • Coppa Italia (until ): Mediaset (all matches live from first round onwards)
  • Supercoppa Italiana (until ): Mediaset
  • Serie A femminile (2021/22 and 2022/23)

Europe[]

Americas[]

Africa[]

Asia[]

American football[]

  • NFL:
    • DAZN (at least four matches per week, NFL RedZone, NFL Network, all Play-Offs matches, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl live) (until 2023/24)
    • Amazon Prime Video (until 2033) (all Thursday Night Football matches live)
    • RAI (2021/22) (one Thanksgiving game and Super Bowl live FTA)
  • NCAA: ESPN Player (all Regular Season, Bowl Games and College Football Playoff matches live)

Baseball[]

Basketball[]

Combat sports[]

Boxing[]

MMA[]

Wrestling[]

Cycling[]

Fencing[]

Field hockey[]

  • Hockey Series: RAI (finals tournaments only)

Futsal[]

World[]

Europe[]

Golf[]

Horse racing[]

Multi-discipline events[]

Motor Racing[]

Rugby Union[]

Sailing[]

Winter Sports[]

Alpine Skiing[]

Cross-Country Skiing & Nordic Combined[]

Ski Jumping & Ski Flying[]

Biathlon[]

Freestyle Skiing[]

  • FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup: Eurosport (until 2026)

Snowboarding[]

Luge[]

Figure Skating[]

  • ISU World Figure Skating Championships (until 2023): RAI, Eurosport
  • ISU European Figure Skating Championships (until 2023): RAI, Eurosport
  • ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: RAI, Eurosport

Tennis[]

Volleyball[]

References[]

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