Sky has introduced a historic five-year partnership with the Ladies’s Skilled League, securing the rights to indicate almost 90 per cent of all Ladies’s Tremendous League matches from the 2025/26 season.
Sky will broadcast 118 matches from the WSL each season, up greater than thrice the variety of video games presently, with 78 fixtures proven solely. With over 75 per cent of first picks plus all matches from the closing weekend unique to Sky, girls’s soccer followers are assured extra of the perfect matches week in, week out from England’s prime flight.
Dana Sturdy, Group CEO, Sky, stated: “This is an incredibly exciting and significant moment for women’s sport. The longer-term partnership reflects our commitment to women’s football and provides the platform for us to keep working with the WPLL to bring in more fans, grow the game and create the most entertaining and competitive women’s football league in the world.
“As the house of sport, Sky is already by far the most important investor in girls’s sport within the UK and Eire, and this new partnership additional demonstrates our backing of elite feminine athletes. We sit up for telling their tales and provoking the following technology of followers.”
The brand new partnership additionally provides Sky the choice to indicate matches from the Ladies’s Championship and Ladies’s League Cup, together with the ultimate. This brings each competitions onto Sky platforms for the primary time.
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In 2023, Sky Sports activities broadcast over 70 per cent of all dwell televised girls’s sport. Ladies’s soccer may be loved alongside England Cricket, The Hundred, US Open tennis, WTA Tour, girls’s golf majors, England Netball, F1 Academy, WPL Cricket, girls’s boxing, Ladies’s Tremendous League (rugby league) and extra.
Soccer followers can get pleasure from this big improve of fixtures from the ladies’s sport from subsequent season concurrently Sky’s document cope with the Premier League kicks in, together with no less than 215 matches – a rise of 70 per cent on solely dwell video games.
With over 1,000 EFL matches every season alongside the most important video games from the SPFL and SWPL, Sky is the unrivalled house of home soccer and is ready to supply supporters of each crew throughout these leagues extra alternative to observe their membership than ever earlier than with larger selection and worth inside their subscription. With the introduction of Sky Sports activities+ earlier this yr, prospects now have entry to 50 per cent extra sport, at no additional price.
Sky Sports activities will proceed to commit advertising and marketing spend, manufacturing finances and promotion throughout its market-leading platforms to extend viewing and fandom for the ladies’s sport. That features devoted social media content material throughout Sky Sports activities’ WSL TikTok and Snapchat accounts to increase the WSL’s attain to much more followers.
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Free match highlights from each WSL sport this season can be watched throughout Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms, together with the web site, app and YouTube channels.
Watch Everton vs Chelsea within the WSL dwell on Sky Sports activities Soccer on Sunday from 6.30pm; kick-off 6.45pm
