Germany: DAZN and Amazon sign new agreements for the broadcasting of the 2019-20 Bundesliga

The British OTT platform DAZN and the American e-commerce group Amazon have concluded non-exclusive broadcasting agreements for games until the end of the 2019-20 Bundesliga season, on 21/05/2020. The rights to these games were initially acquired by Eurosport over the 2017-2021 period, then sub-licensed to DAZN for the last two seasons of this cycle, before Eurosport unilaterally terminated its contract with the DFL (see below).

DAZN has concluded an agreement for nine 2019-20 Bundsliga end-of-season matches (plus the play-offs between the Bundesliga and the 2.Bundesliga and those between the 2.Bundsliga and the 3.Liga) initially included in the contract with Eurosport. Amazon has only acquired the rights for the next matchday, two games (Hertha BSC - 1.FC Union Berlin, on Friday 22/05/2020 at 20:30 and FC Schalke 04 - FC Augsburg, on Sunday 05/05/2020 at 13:30), which will be broadcast on its Prime Video platform.

DAZN and Amazon co-broadcast the SV Werder Bremen - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1-4) match, counting for Matchday 26 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga, on Monday 18/05/2020 (kick-off…