The Premier League is preparing a mammoth deal

The premier league in this field is now looking forward to even greater revenues from television rights. The English Football League is in the coming days to begin negotiations over domestic rights from 2025-26 onwards, increasing both the packages offered to TV networks and the length of the deal.

According to unconfirmed reports in the British press, the Premier League intends to put a fourth network, DAZN, in the game for its television rights, in addition to the existing ones with which it has a current broadcasting contract, namely Sky Sports, TNT Sports ( the former BT Sports) and Amazon Prime. It is likely that the four contenders will battle it out for five packages rather than seven, as is the case now, as it appears to be “cutting” the small total of 20 matches currently held by Amazon Prime.

The goal of the governing bodies of the world’s most commercial football league is to conclude a mammoth deal, more lucrative than the current three-year deal that expires next season (summer 2025) and is worth almost 6 billion euros in total. This will be achieved, the Premier League hopes, both by extending the agreement from three to four years and by providing more matches by splitting each week’s matches over four days, from Friday to Monday, as is the case for example. in the Spanish league, and with games early on Saturday. However, the prospect of a late Sunday night match, as in the Mediterranean countries, was abandoned.

So the price per game broadcast may be going down, but increasing their total number to over 200 per season will certainly also mean an increase in the final revenue from the contracts signed by the Premier League, respectively pointing the way and in other major European leagues.

This effort by the English league, however, goes against the prevailing view of saturation in England, as far as television broadcasts are concerned. Analysts predict that suitors of TV packages will not be willing to offer a bundle of money, given the changing TV preferences of many viewers, for economic reasons among others.

Source: Daily