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Premier League football

JustinGee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:59:24 GMT

Why do Sky show so few Premier League football matches. Next Tuesday 03rd March there are four matches, and on Wednesday 04 March there are five matches. Sky aren't showing any of these... WHY NOT?

Re: Premier League football

SKY1992bf — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:03:52 GMT

@JustinGee because they don't have the rights to them , next weeks games are part of the packages won by tnt sports in the last rights auction

sky show at least 215 every season until end of 28/29 season compared to 52 over the same period for tnt sports

Re: Premier League football

oj01 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:56:16 GMT

@JustinGee wrote:
Why do Sky show so few Premier League football matches. Next Tuesday 03rd March there are four matches, and on Wednesday 04 March there are five matches. Sky aren't showing any of these... WHY NOT?

Every midweek match this week is live on TNT.

Sky are showing more games this season than ever before.

Re: Premier League football

TimmyBGood — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:18:13 GMT

@JustinGee wrote:

Sky aren't showing any of these... WHY NOT?

The PL specifically chose not to permit one provider to have all the matches, and structured the packages so that each successful bidder has periodic exclusivity in order to drive subscription sales on that platform in return for purchasing broadcast rights (for a total of 6.7 billion pounds up until 2028/29)

Sky Sports has been awarded live rights packages B, C, D and E, covering a minimum of 215 live matches per season, which will include more than 140 matches played at weekends, evening matches on Fridays and Mondays, and full coverage of three midweek match rounds. For the first time, Sky Sports will also broadcast all 10 matches on the final day of each season.

TNT Sports has been awarded live rights package A, covering 52 live matches per season, including exclusive coverage of matches played on Saturdays at 12.30pm and full coverage of two midweek match rounds.

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/3807882

Almost as if everyone involved wanted to get as much money as possible, isn't it?

Re: Premier League football

caesarome — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:10:33 GMT

@JustinGee

You seem to be under the miscomprehension that Sky has the rights to each and every televised game, they do not as they share the rights with TNT as such TNT have the rights to those games as they did a few week ago. You will have seen that over the Christmas and ne year period Sky had the rights to these games and they usually have the rights to most of the games towards the end of the season.

Re: Premier League football

JustinGee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:20:13 GMT

Thank you. You've been most helpful. 🤗

Re: Premier League football

Movieman007 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:48:45 GMT

you still get a great selection of prem league games with Sky BUT the Premier League also want to make more money offering smaller packages AND also reduce Key Customer risk

so they offer smaller packages with less popular games

for example Amazon Prime Stream is some of the less popular games. so for it gives them a little value add for their customer base and is affordable and it also makes it affordable for sky because they don't have to pay for less popular games because they're bundled with the bigger games.

Re: Premier League football

caesarome — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:33:49 GMT

@Movieman007

Amazon no longer have the rights to show any games which is why Sky have games over the Christmas period as these traditionally have been the games that Amazon had plus others throughout the month of December.

Re: Premier League football

ozsat — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:57:45 GMT

Amazon - like this week on TNT Sports - had all ten fixtures for one week - twice.

Amazon lost those rights to TNT Sports. So this week ALL TEN fixtures are live on TNT Sports.

Re: Premier League football

Richardr1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:49:00 GMT

@ozsat wrote:
Amazon - like this week on TNT Sports - had all ten fixtures for one week - twice.

Amazon lost those rights to TNT Sports. So this week ALL TEN fixtures are live on TNT Sports.

It was the other way around - TNT always had these rights. The two midweeks that Amazon had were the two December midweeks that are now with Sky, mid December and the midweek after Christmas.

Re: Premier League football

TimmyBGood — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:55:14 GMT

The 2019-22 bundles when it was Sky, BT and Amazon were these:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44396151

Re: Premier League football

TimmyBGood — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:38:45 GMT

@Ivdevian wrote:

I’d keep an eye on the schedule in case anything changes.

As the original post referred to matches which happened a month ago, scheduling changes are now reasonably unlikely.