The so-called record-deal: TV rights stagnate, but the Premier League remain ahead of the pack
IMAGO | Sky Sports presenter Kelly Cates and experts Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.
The Premier League has sold domestic broadcasters 35 per cent more matches from 2025/26, but on a per match basis the league will get just 60 per cent of its peak TV deal.
Sky will see its output increase by 70 per cent to 215 live EPL games per year, assuring the broadcaster of dominance in the British market.
Why it matters: The EPL has the biggest domestic football TV deal in the world, but after rapid gains in the last decade, the rights value will have been stagnant for a generation.
The perspective: Despite the plateau the EPL maintains the revenue gap with European leagues. But what of all those lofty prophesies from American investors into European football about ever increasing rights values?
6 December 2023 - 6:00 PM
Analysis by Off The Pitch shows that the Premier League’s new record domestic TV deal will see the EPL receive less than half of their peak earnings on a per game basis, when adjusted for inflation.
However the EPL is expecting significant uplift in its international broadcast deal, with industry sources telling Off The Pitch that they expect it to surpass £6 billion for the period 2025-28.
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