BBC Sport have secured a brand new five-year contract to broadcast the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL), extending its protection by way of the 2029-2030 season.
Underneath this settlement, BBC will air 21 top-tier WSL video games every season. Starting with the 2025-26 season, 14 of those video games will probably be unique to BBC tv, whereas seven extra will probably be out there throughout BBC iPlayer and different digital platforms.
Along with tv protection, some WSL matches will probably be accessible by way of BBC Radio 5 Reside, BBC Sounds, and numerous native BBC radio stations.
Highlights, objectives, and clips from each WSL fixture will probably be supplied on the BBC Sport web site, app, and social media channels.
This broadcast deal ensures that Sky Sports activities will even proceed to televise WSL matches.
Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport, stated: “It’s nice to see the WSL rising and rising and I’m delighted that the BBC is carrying on as a accomplice on that journey.
One other 5 years of WSL on the BBC! 🙌
We’re excited to announce that reside Girls’s Tremendous League video games will stay on BBC TV and iPlayer till at the least 2030. ✍️#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/ta6qZOw0GK
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) October 30, 2024
“We stay the most-used sports activities broadcaster within the UK, offering unparalleled cross-platform protection, so it’s sensible to have the ability to proceed bringing the WSL to audiences as a part of our free-to-air portfolio.”
Nikki Doucet, Chief Govt of Girls’s Skilled Leagues Restricted (WPLL), shared her enthusiasm, including: “Agreeing the subsequent cycle of broadcast rights was a precedence for us, and we’re very lucky to have two premium broadcast companions in Sky Sports activities and the BBC who imagine sooner or later and worth of ladies’s soccer as a lot as we do.
“The expansion of the sport is plain, and this deal is one other step in the appropriate path and constructive information for the followers, the gamers, and the golf equipment.”
Underneath the phrases of the deal, Sky can have unique rights to broadcast 78 WSL matches.
Moreover, 34 matches will probably be out there on WPLL’s official YouTube channel.
Sky’s settlement additionally contains the choice to broadcast matches from the Girls’s Championship and Girls’s League Cup, increasing their protection of ladies’s soccer in England.