Football Finance

May 9 – EFL clubs have voted through a record new five-year TV coverage deal with Sky Sports worth £935 million. 
The new agreement will run from the 2024/25 season until the 2028/29 season and will include the broadcast of 1,059 matches a season in total – a record number.
The deal will be worth just under £1 billion and represents a 50% increase in the value of the current rights agreement.

By Paul Nicholson
November 12 – A row has broken out over English Football League TV rights with 15 tier two Championship clubs claiming the rights should be worth more, claiming a bigger share of the TV deal and threatening to breakaway from the EFL unless they receive the money.
Clubs leading the way with the threatened breakaway include Leeds United (owned by Andrea Radrizzani), Aston Villa and Derby County. Read more …

Sky is to stream midweek Championship games after agreeing a new five-year domestic rights deal worth £600m with the EFL.

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The EFL plans to make all matches from 2024-25 available for broadcast and streaming – which could see an end to the Saturday 3pm “blackout” in its competitions.

The English Football League, which operates the three divisions below the top-tier Premier League, has decided against exercising an option to extend a domestic live rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky and will launch a tender process later this month.