Sports broadcasting contracts in Australia

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This article refers to the sports broadcasting contracts in Australia. For a list of other country's broadcasting rights, see Sports television broadcast contracts.

Certain sporting events are protected by Australia's Anti-siphoning laws which means free-to-air television broadcasters have the chance to bid on protected events before pay television.

Video Sports broadcasting contracts in Australia

Athletics

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics: TBA (2017)
• IAAF Diamond League: Eurosport (-2015)
• CrossFit Games: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• Australian Athletics Tour: No announcement about 2015 onwards.

Maps Sports broadcasting contracts in Australia

Australian rules football

• Australian Football League:
  • Seven Network: (2017-2022) 3-4 matches per round live nationally. Friday night (1 match), Saturday night (1 match) and Sunday afternoon (3.20pm eastern time zone slot match). Further 11 games on public holidays / eve. Between 5-6 Thursday night games. Local teams replace broadcast into local markets every week of the season in SA, WA, QLD & NSW. 3 games each season in SA & WA featuring a local team broadcast on delayed basis.
    • Finals Series: Every match live nationally including the Grand Final.
  • Fox Footy: (2017-2022) Every match per round, live nationally.
    • Finals Series: Every match live nationally except the Grand Final.
• Australian Football League: Pre-season NAB Challenge
  • Fox Footy: (2017-2022)
    • Exclusive broadcast of all NAB Challenge matches.
• AFL Women's:
  • Fox Footy: Every Match Live except the Grand Final
  • Seven Network: One Saturday Night Game Live and Grand Final Exclusively Live
• Brownlow Medal:
  • Seven Network: (2017-2022) Exclusive coverage.

State Leagues

• Victorian Football League: Seven Network (2017-TBA)
  • 1 live game each Saturday or Sunday afternoon, most finals and Grand Final live.
• South Australian National Football League: Seven Network (2017-2020)
• West Australian Football League: Seven Network (2015-2017)
• North East Australian Football League: NITV and Fox Footy
• Queensland Australian Football League: Fox Footy

Others

• E. J. Whitten Legends Game: Seven Network (2016-2020)

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Baseball

• Major League Baseball: ESPN
  • Postseason - ESPN (Live & delayed rights)
  • World Series: ESPN
• College baseball: ESPN
• Little League World Series: ESPN
• World Baseball Classic: ESPN
• Women's Baseball World Cup: ESPN
• World Cup of Softball: ESPN
• Australian Baseball League: Abl.tv, YouTube

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Basketball

• National Basketball League:
  • Fox Sports (2015/16-2019/20) All matches live including Semi Finals, and Grand Finals.
  • SBS (2016/17-2019/20) 2 matches live every Saturday night and Sunday Afternoon including Semifinal, and Grand Final.
  • ABC (2017/18) 1 match replay every Friday night.
• Women's National Basketball League:
  • Fox Sports (2017/18-2019/20) One match live including Semi Finals, and Grand Finals.
  • WNBL.com.au (via YouTube)
• National Basketball Association: ESPN (2016/17) Up to 188 regular-season games including five Boxing Day games back-to-back; up to 53 playoff games including the entirety of the Eastern and Western Conference Finals and every game of the NBA Finals; NBA All-Star, including the BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge, State Farm All-Star Saturday Night and the NBA All-Star Game; and 20 NBA Summer League games.
• Women's National Basketball Association: ESPN (2016-2025)

International

• Australian Boomers matches: Fox Sports
• Australian Opals matches: Fox Sports
• FIBA Asia Cup: Fox Sports
• FIBA Asia Women's Cup: Fox Sports
• FIBA EuroBasket: Eurosport
• FIBA Basketball World Cup: TBA (2019)
• FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup: TBA (2018)

Other

• NCAA:
  • ESPN (until 2023/24)
  • Fox Sports: 21 Pac-12 games annually.
• NBA Summer League: ESPN
• NBA G League: ESPN
• The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
• Euroleague Basketball: Eurosport

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Combat Sports

• Boxing: Fox Sports, ESPN, Eurosport, beIN Sports, Main Event
• Ultimate Fighting Championship: Fox Sports (Fight Night), Main Event (PPV)
• BRACE: Australasia's Mixed Martial Arts Event: UFC.TV (PPV)
• Bellator MMA: Spike

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Cricket

International

• Test Cricket in Australia: Nine Network (2013/14-2017/18), TBA (2018/19-2021/22)
• One-day International Cricket in Australia: Nine Network (2013/14-2017/18), TBA (2018/19-2021/22)
• Twenty20 International Cricket in Australia: Nine Network (2013/14-2017/18), TBA (2018/19-2021/22)
• Overseas Test cricket :
  • Fox Sports covers most international series, all that involve Australia, except the 2019 Ashes in England
  • Nine Network covering The Ashes in England (2019)
• Overseas One-day International Cricket:
  • Fox Sports covers most games, all that involve Australia.
  • Nine Network covering the Australian cricket team in England against England (2019)
• Cricket World Cup: TBA (2019)
• ICC World Twenty20: TBA (2020)
• ICC Women's World Twenty20: TBA
• ICC Champions Trophy: Fox Sports (2017)

Domestic/Club

• Sheffield Shield: Cricket Australia TV
• Matador BBQs One-Day Cup: Nine Network (2013-2017), TBA (2018-2022)
• Big Bash League: Network Ten (2013/14-2017/18), TBA (2018/19-2021/22), Optus Sport
• Women's Big Bash League: TBA (2018/19-2021/22)
• Indian Premier League: CricketGateway.com (2016)
• Regional Super50: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• Caribbean Premier League: Fox Sports

Exhibition/Other

• Allan Border Medal: 9Go!
• ICC Awards: Fox Sports

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Cycling

• Australian National Road Race Championships - SBS (Live)
• Tour Down Under - Nine Network (Every stage live)
• Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race - Seven Network (Men's and women's race live)
• Herald Sun Tour - SBS (Highlights of prologue and first three stages, Stage 4 live)
• Paris-Nice - SBS (Every stage live)
• Milan-San Remo - Eurosport (Live)
• Tour of Flanders - SBS (Live)
• Paris-Roubaix - SBS (Live), Eurosport (Live)
• Amstel Gold Race - SBS (Live), Eurosport (Live)
• Liège-Bastogne-Liège - SBS (Live), Eurosport (Live)
• Eschborn-Frankfurt - Rund um den Finanzplatz - SBS (Live)
• Giro d'Italia - Eurosport (Every stage live)
• Tour of California - SBS (Every stage live)
• Critérium du Dauphiné - SBS (Every stage live)
• Tour de France - SBS (until 2023)
• Vuelta a España - SBS (Every stage live), Eurosport (Every stage live)
• Giro di Lombardia - Eurosport (Live)
• UCI Road World Championships - SBS (Men's time trial and road race live)
• Cape Epic - SBS
• UCI Mountain Bike World Championships - SBS
• Australian National Track Championships - SBS

Extensive coverage of other tours available on Eurosport.

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eSports

• FIFA Ultimate Team Championship Series: ESPN
• FACEIT X Games Rocket League Invitational: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• EVO Street Fighter V World Championship: ESPN
• Injustice 2: ESPN

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Extreme Sports

• X Games: ESPN

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Field Hockey

• Hockey World Cup: TBA (2018)
• Hockey World League: TBA (2017)
• Australia Kookaburras matches: Fox Sports
• Australia Hockeyroos matches: Fox Sports

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Gaelic Games

• Gaelic Athletic Association:
  • 7mate: Live coverage of 45 matches from Football and Hurling Championships (2014, dropped in 2015)
  • beIN Sports: (As of 2016)
• International Rules Series in Australia: Seven Network (VIC, SA), 7mate (NSW, QLD, WA)
• International Rules Series in the Republic of Ireland: 7mate

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Golf

• Australian Masters: TBA (2017-2018)
• Australian Open: Seven Network
• Australian PGA Championship: Seven Network
• U.S. Masters: 7mate, Fox Sports (2014-2017)
• U.S. Open: Fox Sports (2015-2018)
• British Open: Fox Sports (until 2017)
• U.S. PGA Championship: Fox Sports (2015-2018)
• U.S. LPGA Championship: Fox Sports (2015-2018)
• PGA Tour: Fox Sports (2015-2018), ABC (Highlight)
• World Golf Championships: Fox Sports
• Ryder Cup: Fox Sports (2014, 2016, 2018)
• Presidents Cup: Fox Sports
• European Tour: Fox Sports (2015-2018)
• EurAsia Cup: Fox Sports (2016, 2018)
• OneAsia Tour: Fox Sports (2015-2018)
• Women's Australian Open: ABC

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Gridiron football

• National Football League:
  • ESPN: (until 2020/21) Up to three live games per week including Thursday, Sunday and Monday Night Football, NFL RedZone, and all playoffs.
  • Seven Network / 7mate: (2014/15-2018/19) Three live games per week includes Sunday Night Football and all playoffs.
• Pro Bowl: Seven Network (2015-2019), ESPN (until 2021)
• Super Bowl: Seven Network (2015-2019) ESPN (until 2021)
• NCAA:
  • ESPN Australia
  • Fox Sports: 13 Pac-12 games annually.
• Canadian Football League: ESPN

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Horse-racing

• Kentucky Derby: ESPN
• Preakness Stakes: ESPN
• Belmont Stakes: ESPN
• Melbourne Cup: Seven Network
• Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: Seven Network
• Royal Ascot: Seven Network (2014-unknown)
• All metropolitan, country and international race meetings: Sky Racing
• All Victorians race meetings: Racing.com

Ice Hockey

• World Cup of Hockey: ESPN
• National Hockey League: Fox Sports
• Australian Ice Hockey League: Fox Sports (Highlights)

Ironman(Surf lifesaving)

• Australian Club Championship: Seven Network
• Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman Series Nine Network (2014-2019)
• Coolangatta Gold
• Summer of Surf Series (Fox Sports)
• Ocean Thunder(Professional Surfboat Series)

Lacrosse

• National Lacrosse League: ESPN

Motorsports

• Virgin Australia Supercars Championship:
  • Network Ten (2015-2020) Six events live plus highlight packages of all remaining race weekends.
  • Fox Sports (2015-2020) All practice, qualifying, top ten shootout and races live.
• FIA Formula One:
  • Network Ten (2015-2019) Live coverage of the Australian GP plus highlights of all other races.
  • Fox Sports (2015-2019) All practice, qualifying, and races live.
• Motorcycle Grand Prix (MotoGP):
  • Network Ten (2017-2018) Main races live. Live coverage of Moto3, Moto2, qualifying and the race held at Phillip Island.
  • Fox Sports (2017-2018) Main races live including Moto2 & Moto3 categories and all practice, and qualifying practices.
• NASCAR:
  • NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Fox Sports
  • NASCAR Xfinity Series: Fox Sports
  • NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Fox Sports
• IndyCar Series: ESPN
• Indy Lights: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• AMA Motocross Championship: ESPN
• AMA Supercross Championship: ESPN
• FIA World Rally Championship: Fox Sports, Nine Network
• Australian Rally Championship: Nine Network (Highlights)
• Australian Superbike Championship: 7mate (Highlights)
• Superbike World Championship: Fox Sports (2017-2019), SBS (Highights)
• FIA Formula E Championship: Fox Sports
• FIA World Endurance Championship: Fox Sports, Eurosport (2017-2020)
• 24 Hours of Le Mans: Fox Sports, Eurosport (2017-2020)
• Bathurst 12 Hour: Seven Network / 7mate

Multi-discipline events

• Commonwealth Games: Seven Network (2018)
• Summer Olympics: Seven Network (2016, 2020), TBA (2024)
• Winter Olympics: Seven Network (2018), TBA (2022)
• Paralympic Games: Seven Network (2016, 2020), TBA (2024)
• European Games: TBA (2019)
• Pacific Games: TBA (2019)

Netball

• Suncorp Super Netball:
  • Nine Network (2017-2021): Two games live per round in prime-time and the other two games delayed.
• INF Netball World Cup: Nine Network (2019)
• Constellation Cup:
  • Nine Network (2017-2021)
• SANZEA Netball Quad Series:
  • Nine Network (2017-2021)
• Fast5 Netball World Series
  • Nine Network (2016-2020)

Poker

• World Series of Poker: ESPN

Rugby league

• National Rugby League:
  • Nine Network (2013-2017): Three games per round. Thursday night (1 match), Friday night (1 match) and Sunday afternoon (1 match). In 2017, one additional game per round on Saturday night for the last 5 rounds of the season.
  • Nine Network (2018-2022) Three games per round. Thursday night (1 match), Friday night (1 match) and Sunday afternoon (1 match). 1 additional game per round on Saturday night for the last 5 rounds of the season.
    • Finals series: Every game of the finals series including the Grand Final.
  • Fox Sports (2013-2017) Five games per round, live nationally. From 2016, all games live nationally, including all Finals Series games live except the Grand Final.
  • Fox League 502 (2017-2022) Every game per round, live nationally.
    • Finals Series: Every game live nationally except the Grand Final, which airs replay coverage.
• National Youth Competition:
  • Nine Network: (Grand Final Only)
  • Fox League: Two games per week live. In 2017 HOLDEN CUP On Friday afternoon game in round two 3:45pm, Friday afternoon in round 16 3:45pm, and Friday afternoon in round 19 3:45pm
• State of Origin:
  • Nine Network (2013-2017):
  • Nine Network (2018-2022):
  • Fox League: Replay coverage.
• Queensland Cup: Nine Network (2013-2017)
• New South Wales Cup: Fox League
• Super League: Fox League
• Challenge Cup: Fox League
• Rugby League World Cup: Seven Network (2017)
• Four Nations: Nine Network, Fox League
• Other Tests: Nine Network, Fox League

Rugby union

• Rugby World Cup: TBA (2019)
• The Rugby Championship:
  • Network Ten (2016-2020): Wallabies games
  • Fox Sports (2016-2020): Every game
• Bledisloe Cup:
  • Fox Sports (2016-2020)
  • Network Ten (2016-2020)
• Wallabies Rugby Internationals:
  • Network Ten (2016-2020): Home internationals
  • Fox Sports (2016-2020): Live nationally
• Wallabies Spring Tour:
  • SBS: Home internationals
  • beIN Sports: All Matches Exclusively Live
• All Blacks Internationals:
  • Fox Sports
  • beIN Sports: Spring Tour
• Super Rugby:
  • Fox Sports: Every match live (2016-2020)
  • Network Ten: One delayed match every Sunday morning, and delayed coverage of finals matches which involve Australian teams (2016-2020)
• National Rugby Championship: Fox Sports (2016-2020)
• Shute Shield: 7TWO (2015-)
• Currie Cup: Fox Sports (2016-2020)
• Heineken Cup: beIN Sports
• Mitre 10 Cup : Fox Sports (2016-2020)
• Six Nations Championship: beIN Sports (Live), ESPN (Delay)
• English Premiership: Fox Sports
• Top 12 de la URBA: ESPN (WatchESPN)
• Pro14: beIN Sports
• European Challenge Cup: beIN Sports
• Anglo-Welsh Cup: Fox Sports
• England home internationals: beIN Sports

Sailing

• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race: Seven Network (until 2021)
• America's Cup: Fox Sports (2017)

Association Football

Leagues

• A-League:
  • Fox Sports (2017/18-2022/23): Live coverage of every game.
  • Network Ten (2017/18-2018/19): One live Saturday night game a week, plus all finals games live
• W-League: Fox Sports (2017/18-2022/23)

SBS (2017/18): Two live games per week including Friday night and Sunday afternoon games (on Viceland)

• English Premier League:
  • Optus Sport (2016/17-2018/19): Live coverage of every match
  • SBS (2016/17-2018/19): One live match on Saturday (first pick), one match during the week in the event of a mid-week round and one match on the final day.
  • Foxtel (2016/17-): Delayed coverage of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur's games
• English Football League Championship: beIN Sports (2017/18-2021/22)
• English Football League One:beIN Sports (2017/18-2021/22)
• English Football League Two: beIN Sports (2017/18-2021/22)
• Spanish La Liga: beIN Sports
• French Ligue 1: beIN Sports
• German Bundesliga : beIN Sports (2011/12-2019/20),
• Italian Serie A: Rai Italia, beIN Sports
• Major League Soccer: ESPN, beIN Sports (2015-2018)
• Argentine Primera División: beIN Sports
• Brazilian League and São Paulo Championship: beIN Sports
• Scottish Premier League: beIN Sports
• Superleague Greece: Antenna Pacific

Domestic Cups

• FFA Cup: Fox Sports (2017-2022) Live coverage of at least 10 matches from the Round of 32 onwards, including all Quarter Finals, both Semi Finals and the Final.
• English FA Cup: ESPN (2012/13-2017/18)
• English League Cup: beIN Sports (2017/18-2021/22)
• FA Community Shield: ESPN
• Copa del Rey: SBS (2016) Live coverage of the final.
• Coppa Italia: SBS (2016) Live coverage of the final.
• DFB-Pokal: beIN Sports
• DFL-Supercup: beIN Sports
• Trophée des Champions: beIN Sports
• Scottish Cup: beIN Sports
• Scottish League Cup: beIN Sports
• Greek Cup: Antenna Pacific
• Copa do Brasil: beIN Sports
• Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: ESPN

International Club Competitions

• AFC Champions League: Fox Sports featuring All Australian teams only.
• Copa América Centenario: SBS (2016) Live coverage of the four quarter finals, two semi-finals, and final.
• UEFA Champions League:
  • SBS: (2015/16-2017/18) One live match on Wednesdays and a weekly one hour highlights show on Thursday nights.
  • beIN Sports: (2015/16-2017/18) All games live.
• UEFA Europa League:
  • beIN Sports (2015/16-2017/18)
• OFC Champions League: NITV
• CONMEBOL Libertadores:
• CONMEBOL Sudamericana:
• FIFA Club World Cup: Fox Sports

Club channel coverage

• Arsenal TV: - Fox Sports (Dedicated programming blocks only; 1 July 2016- )
• AVTV: Eurosport
• Barça TV: Eurosport
• Celtic TV: beIN Sports
• Chelsea TV: - Foxtel (1 July 2016- )
• Citytv: - Fox Sports (Dedicated programming blocks only; 1 July 2016- )
• FCB.tv: beIN Sports
• Inter Channel: Eurosport
• Juventus Channel: - beIN Sports
• LFC TV (Liverpool F.C. TV): - Foxtel (1 July 2016- )
• Milan Channel: beIN Sports
• MUTV: - Foxtel (1 July 2016- )
• Rangers TV: beIN Sports
• Real Madrid TV: FetchTV
• Spurs TV: Fox Sports (Dedicated programming blocks only; 1 July 2016- )

International Matches

• Australian National Men's Team (Socceroos) matches:
  • Network Ten: (2018-2019)
  • Fox Sports: (2017-2022) Live coverage of every Socceroos World Cup Qualifier and international fixture.
• Australian Youth: SBS
• Australian Women's National Teams:
  • SBS
  • Fox Sports: (2017-2022)
• FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA): ESPN
• FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF): beIN Sports
• FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF):
• FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL): beIN Sports and ESPN
• UEFA European Championship qualifying: ESPN
• English Home Internationals: beIN Sports
• Germany Home Internationals: beIN Sports
• Spain Home Internationals: SBS
• Brazil Internationals: ESPN
• Other International Matches: beIN Sports, ESPN, SBS
• A-League All Stars Game: Seven Network

International Tournaments

• AFC Asian Cup: TBA (2019)
• FIFA World Cup:
  • SBS (2018, 2022): 25 Matches Live including the first pick per matchday and all Socceroos' fixtures
  • Optus (2018): All Matches Live
• UEFA European Championship:
  • SBS (2016): 8 matches from the knockout rounds.
  • beIN Sports: All matches live
• FIFA Confederations Cup:
  • SBS (2017): 6 matches including all Socceroos' fixtures.
  • Optus (2017): All Matches Live
• Other FIFA Tournaments: SBS
• International Champions Cup: Nine Network (2016)
• African Cup of Nations: beIN Sports Eurosport (2015)
• Toulon Tournament: ESPN
• Joan Gamper Trophy: ESPN

Other

• National Premier Leagues Victoria: Channel 31 Melbourne
• SBS shows a football fixture as part of their Sunday afternoon football show The World Game. This is often from the UEFA Champions League, but is sometimes a game from one of a number of South American/European or Asian leagues.
• Aurora has a one-hour highlights program showing highlights from Australia's various amateur leagues each week, called the Australian Premier League Highlights Show.

Swimming

• Australian Swimming Championships: Seven Network (2016-2025)
• FINA World Aquatics Championships: Seven Network (2015, 2017)

Ten-pin bowling

• World Tenpin Masters: Fox Sports
• PBA Tour: ESPN

Tennis

• Australian Open Series
  • Australian Open: Seven Network / 7TWO / 7mate (2015-2019)
  • Australian Open Junior Finals: ESPN (2017-2019)
  • Brisbane International: 7TWO (2015-2019)
  • Apia International: 7TWO (2015-2019)
  • Hobart International: ESPN (2017-2019), 7TWO (final highlights)
  • Hopman Cup: 7mate (2015-2019)
  • World Tennis Challenge: ESPN (2017-2019), 7TWO (highlights)
  • Kooyong Classic: 7TWO (2015-2019)
• French Open: Fox Sports (2014-2016)
• Wimbledon: Seven Network / 7TWO (2016-2017) Fox Sports
• U.S. Open: ESPN (2017-2021) / SBS (2017) Live coverage of quarter-finals night sessions, semi-finals and finals.
• Davis Cup: Seven Network (2015-2016) and beIN Sports
• Fed Cup: Seven Network (2015-2016) and beIN Sports
• ATP World Tour (except Australian Tournaments)
  • ATP World Tour Finals: ESPN (2016-2020)
  • ATP World Tour Masters 1000: ESPN (2016-2020)
  • ATP World Tour 500: ESPN (2016-2020)
  • ATP World Tour 250 series: Fox Sports, Eurosport, beIN Sports
• Next Generation ATP Finals: ESPN
• Laver Cup: ESPN
• WTA Tour (except Australian Tournaments)
  • WTA Tour Championships: beIN Sports (2017-2021)
  • WTA Premier tournaments: beIN Sports (2017-2021)
  • WTA International tournaments: beIN Sports (2017-2021)
• Mubadala World Tennis Championship: Fox Sports

Volleyball

• World Series of Beach Volleyball: ESPN

Wrestling

• WWE Series: Fox8

References

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