Media rights deals for UEFA’s Youth, Women and Futsal competitions
UEFA announced today the renewal of a multi-year agreement with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport delivering great promotion and coverage of UEFA’s youth, women and futsal competitions. The new deal runs to 2013 and includes the following UEFA competitions:
· The annual editions of the men’s and women’s youth national team European championships at Under-19 and Under-17 levels;
· UEFA Women’s Champions League final and UEFA European Women’s Championship 2011/13;
· The yearly futsal club competition, UEFA Futsal Cup, and the national team futsal competition, UEFA European Futsal Championship 2011/12.
Extensive live and delayed coverage of the competitions will be broadcast on EUROSPORT and EUROSPORT 2 channels. Currently, EUROSPORT is available in 59 countries, 20 languages and reaches more than 123 million households. EUROSPORT 2 reaches over 50 million households in 47 countries and 16 languages.
Eurosport has been awarded the media rights to the above competitions on a platform-neutral basis, enabling the broadcaster to provide multi-platform coverage on television, the Internet and via mobile. In addition, Eurosport will ensure the host broadcasting of the competitions delivering a high standard and consistent level of production throughout.
Commenting on the renewal of the deal with Eurosport, Guy-Laurent Epstein, Marketing Director of UEFA Events SA, said:
"Football development and promotion are at the heart of UEFA’s core mission. In this respect, we are very happy to renew our partnership with Eurosport. The wide pan-European coverage provided by Eurosport has been a key element for the development and further growth of our youth, women and futsal competitions. We believe that Eurosport will continue to build on the growing interest and further increase the profile of these competitions in Europe by providing great visibility and allowing fans to have access to a variety of UEFA competitions. We very much look forward to continuing this successful partnership.”
· The annual editions of the men’s and women’s youth national team European championships at Under-19 and Under-17 levels;
· UEFA Women’s Champions League final and UEFA European Women’s Championship 2011/13;
· The yearly futsal club competition, UEFA Futsal Cup, and the national team futsal competition, UEFA European Futsal Championship 2011/12.
Extensive live and delayed coverage of the competitions will be broadcast on EUROSPORT and EUROSPORT 2 channels. Currently, EUROSPORT is available in 59 countries, 20 languages and reaches more than 123 million households. EUROSPORT 2 reaches over 50 million households in 47 countries and 16 languages.
Eurosport has been awarded the media rights to the above competitions on a platform-neutral basis, enabling the broadcaster to provide multi-platform coverage on television, the Internet and via mobile. In addition, Eurosport will ensure the host broadcasting of the competitions delivering a high standard and consistent level of production throughout.
Commenting on the renewal of the deal with Eurosport, Guy-Laurent Epstein, Marketing Director of UEFA Events SA, said:
"Football development and promotion are at the heart of UEFA’s core mission. In this respect, we are very happy to renew our partnership with Eurosport. The wide pan-European coverage provided by Eurosport has been a key element for the development and further growth of our youth, women and futsal competitions. We believe that Eurosport will continue to build on the growing interest and further increase the profile of these competitions in Europe by providing great visibility and allowing fans to have access to a variety of UEFA competitions. We very much look forward to continuing this successful partnership.”
