After its three-year broadcasting rights deal with OneFootball, the Swiss Football League (SFL) has opened its new streaming service to anyone outside Switzerland. The streaming service includes every Swiss Super League and Challenge League match and features your choice of German, French, and Italian commentary, or stadium noise.
It follows the announcement from the Polish league Ekstraklasa that it has launched a direct-to-customer service after OneFootball decided not to renew its rights for the league. After it aired the first matchday of both the Swiss Super League and Challenge League for free, the SFL now charges $2 per game to stream individual matches.
How will the Super League service work?
In 2021, nine European leagues, including the Norway Eliteserien, Danish Superliga, and Polish Ekstraklasa banded together to combine their rights. The leagues were frustrated with their inability to gain global exposure through non-domestic deals. They signed a broadcasting deal with OneFootball to broadcast their matches for free in certain territories.
Now, only three years later, Denmark, Poland, and Switzerland have exited the combined effort. The Ekstraklasa and Swiss Super League have made their streaming services, while the Danish Superliga doesn’t have an American partner to broadcast its games.
The SFL recently rolled out their over-the-top streaming service with the start of their games. All 228 Super League and 180 Challenge League matches are available on SFL’s new website (tv.sfl.ch). The platform broadcasts matches without any advertisements.
The channel is unavailable in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, and Liechtenstein.
The website also includes video replays for all of its matches, something OneFootball notably didn’t have. After creating an account, you access a ‘no spoiler’ mode, where the website hides scores after the game finishes. The stream also boasts a 1080-pixel resolution.
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Author : Deolu Akingbade
Publish date : 2024-07-22 17:49:01
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