Dazn targets rights for Champions League in latest football move involving Saudi Arabia

Global rights available for first time for 2027-31 cycleDazn hoping to follow up on Club World Cup successDazn is preparing to bid for global broadcasting rights for Champions League games from 2027 in another significant move into football by Saudi Arabia.Saudi’s Surj Sports Investment bought a 10% stake in Dazn for $1bn (£746.94m) in February, two months after the streaming platform agreed to pay the same sum to Fifa for exclusive global rights for the Club World Cup. Dazn claimed an audience of 2.7 billion for the Club World Cup, a figure understood to relate to total views rather than individual viewers, and social media engagement of 10bn using the same metric. Encouraged by these figures, Dazn wants global rights for the Champions League, the main innovation in Uefa’s Champions League tender process for the 2027-31 cycle, which was launched this month. Continue reading...

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