2026-27 Champions League: final year of the TV rights cycle and the partnership with TEAM Marketing

News Tank Football - Paris - News #452705 - Published on 08/09/26 at 14:00
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Paris Saint-Germain, winners of the 2025-26 Champions League - ©  UEFA Champions League / X

The 2026-27 UEFA Champions League starts with the Club Brugge KV (Jupiler Pro League) - Aston Villa FC (Premier League) and AEK Athens (Greek first division) - LASK (Austrian first division) fixtures, with kick-offs scheduled at 18:45 CET on Tuesday 8 September 2026.

This is the final year of the current rights cycle (2024-2027) for UEFA’s men’s club competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League). This season also marks the end of UEFA’s collaboration with Swiss agency TEAM Marketing, which was responsible for marketing the commercial rights (including media rights) to UEFA’s club competitions during the 2024-2027 cycle, including the Champions League since its creation in 1992.

Relevent Football Partners, a subsidiary of US company Relevent Sports Group, has been…

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Paris Saint-Germain, winners of the 2025-26 Champions League - ©  UEFA Champions League / X

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