Italy: Sky Italia acquires TV rights to the Europa League and Europa Conference League 2021-2024

The free and pay TV operator Sky Italia has acquired the broadcasting rights to the Europa League and the future Europa Conference League, in Italy, for the 2021-2024 cycle, on 05/02/2021.

Sky Italia already holds the rights to the Europa League for the current cycle (2018-2021) and broadcasts one game per matchday free-to-air (contractual obligation with UEFA) on its DTT channel TV8.

The rights to the Champions League for the 2021-2024 cycle have been allocated in Italy as follows:

• Amazon has acquired the broadcasting rights for the Wednesday evening fixture (16 matches + the UEFA Super Cup) for an estimated €80m per season.
• Mediaset has recovered the Tuesday evening fixture (16 matches), for free-to-air broadcasting, for an estimated €45m per year
• Sky Italia has acquired the rights to all matches (except those on Amazon) for an amount exceeding €100m per season.
• The OTT platform DAZN and the public audiovisual group RAI, also candidates, were not awarded any of the lots.

Sky Italia currently holds the rights to the competition over the 2018-2021 cycle, for an estimated…