Bundesliga: DAZN recovers rights via sub-license from Eurosport for the 2020-21 season

The OTT platform DAZN will recover the broadcasting rights to 45 matches per season organised by the DFL, including 40 Bundesliga matches, for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, via sub-license from Discovery, Eurosport's parent company, for the 2020-21 season, on 26/08/2020.

DAZN had previously broadcast these matches (40 Bundesliga matches per season on Friday evening, Sunday 13:30 or Monday evening, plus the DFL-Supercup and the Bundesliga/2.Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga/3.Liga playoffs) during the 2019-20 season following a previous agreement signed on 18/07/2019.

Eurosport had unilaterally terminated its contract with the DFL during the suspension of the German championship due to the Covid-19 pandemic (between 14/03 and 16/05/2020). A German court of arbitration then invalidated this termination on 13/08/2020.

"In a sport arbitration hearing before the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), a tribunal has declared the notice of termination of the current usage rights contract given by Eurosport at the end of April, due to the temporary suspension of play due to the Covid-19 pandemic…