UEFA Women's Champions League: global call for tenders for 2025-2030 TV rights on 25/01/2024

UEFA will launch a global call for tenders for the broadcasting rights to the UEFA Women's Champions League over the 2025-2030 cycle (five seasons) on 25/01/2024, announced the body on 18/01/2024. The deadline for submitting bids is 29/02/2024.

DAZN currently holds the global broadcasting rights (excluding the MENA zone and China) for the competition over the 2021-2025 cycle (four seasons). The OTT sports platform has entered into a partnership with YouTube (Google/Alphabet) for its free broadcast across all the territories covered.

On the basis of this agreement, all matches in the competition were available live and on-demand on DAZN and free of charge on DAZN's YouTube channel for the first two seasons (2021-2023). For the following two seasons (2023-2025), the initial agreement provided for all 61 matches in the competition to be broadcast live on DAZN and for 19 of them to be available free of charge on the YouTube channel. Now DAZN will broadcast most of the matches free of charge on its platform and YouTube channel for the 2023-24 financial year.

"UEFA has not fully determined…