Foot & Soccer Soccer Match Reports, Football News 
March 11 – Australian broadcaster SBS Sports activities has simply secured the free-to-air rights for the 2025 Main League Soccer (MLS) season. Underneath this settlement SBS will air a featured match below the banner of Sunday Night time Soccer each Monday morning.
This enterprise will mark the primary time Australian soccer viewers may have entry to dwell, free-to-air MLS matches providing publicity to a number of the greatest names in international soccer, together with Lionel Messi (Inter Miami), Luis Suárez (Inter Miami), Marco Reus (LA Galaxy) and Hugo Lloris (LAFC).
The league additionally options six Australians, together with Socceroos Kye Rowles (DC United) and Patrick Yazbek (Nashville SC), including native curiosity to the rising worldwide competitors.
The MLS deal reinforces SBS’s standing as Australia’s residence of soccer because it builds pleasure for FIFA World Cup 2026, which will likely be broadcast completely on SBS.
“We’re delighted to incorporate the premier North American membership competitors in our international soccer providing as we rely right down to the FIFA World Cup 2026,” mentioned SBS director of sport Ken Shipp. “That is the primary time Australian viewers may have the possibility to observe MLS matches dwell and free, and it’ll function a fantastic appetiser for the World Cup.”
The time-zone alignment between North America and Australia makes MLS’s Sunday Night time Soccer a pure match for SBS’s Monday morning soccer schedule, complementing the broadcaster’s expansive soccer slate.
For MLS, this deal avoids the paywall that AppleTV at present has with the league permitting viewers to keep away from the charges related to MLS Season Go.
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