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[]

World Cup Qualifying: Sky Sport, Spark Sport
- AFC: Sky Sport
- CAF: CAF YouTube Channel
- CONCACAF: beIN Sports
- CONMEBOL: Spark Sport
- OFC: TBA
- UEFA: Sky Sport
European Championship qualifying: Sky Sport
Other International Matches: Sky Sport, beIN Sports

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
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)

Futsal[]

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.

Badminton[]

BWF: OVO Mobile (2019–2021)^[3]

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.
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
  - England and Wales Cricket Board
    - Home internationals
    - The Hundred
    - Vitality Blast
    - Royal London One-Day Cup final
  - New Zealand cricket team in Bangladesh in 2021–22.
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[]

Tour de France: Sky Sport

eSports[]

Extreme Sports[]

X Games: ESPN

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[]

National Hockey League: ESPN

Lacrosse[]

Major League Lacrosse: ESPN

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: 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)
:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)
Suncorp Super Netball:
- Sky Sport (live coverage of all games)

Poker[]

World Series of Poker: ESPN

Rowing[]

World Rowing Championships: Sky Sport
Rowing World Cup: Sky Sport

Rugby league[]

National Rugby League:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of Warriors games
New South Wales Cup:
- Sky Sport: All Warriors home games live, plus any games available from Fox Sports
NZRL National Premiership
- Sky Sport
State of Origin:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage
Super League:
- Sky Sport
Rugby League Challenge Cup:
- Sky Sport
Four Nations:
- Sky Sport: Live Coverage
- Prime: Delayed coverage of selected games

Rugby union[]

Rugby World Cup: TVNZ & Spark Sport (2019)
The Rugby Championship:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of All Blacks tests
Super Rugby:
- Sky Sport: live coverage of all games
- Prime: Delayed coverage of one game per weekend on Saturday Night. They also show highlights of all games and one full game.
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:
- Sky Sport: Live coverage of all games
- Prime: Live and delayed coverage of selected games.
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.

[1] "Champions League and La Liga headline Sky NZ's co-branded BeIN channel - SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 2020-01-24.

[2] "beIN acquires MLS rights in Asia-Pacific to 2022". SportBusiness. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-01-28.

[3] "OVO Australia Broadcast Deal Announced". BWF. Retrieved 2019-04-07.

[4] Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

[5] Kreft, Brad. "Sky TV acquires rights to ASB Classic and Heineken Open". Throng.

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