ITV 1 UK Soccer Schedule

 

About ITV 1 UK

ITV 1 is a UK Channel available in England, Southern Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. ITV 1 is owned by the UKs largest commercial broadcaster ITV plc. In addition to ITV 1, you can also tune into it's sister channels ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 and ITV HD.

ITV is the biggest and most popular commercial television channel in the United Kingdom. ITV and its predecessor channels have contended with BBC One for the status of the UK's most watched television channel since the 1950s. However, in line with other terrestrial channels, ITV's audience share has fallen in the era of multi-channel television.

ITV holds joint rights for the FIFA World Cup with the BBC and has shown every World Cup live since 1966, on a shared basis with the BBC. The same arrangement has been in place for many years for coverage of the UEFA European Championship and both broadcasters shared coverage in 2016. ITV has, since 2008, has covered every England international home friendlies and qualifiers for the European Championship and World Cup, the deal was extended to include away friendlies in 2009 and qualifiers from 2010 following the collapse of Setanta Sports, who initially held the rights for those games. This has since been extended until 2022, where ITV will show every England qualifier and friendly building up to tournaments, while highlights of the new UEFA Nations League tournament were also obtained. ITV also cover one other European qualifier per round not involving a home nation on ITV4 as well, as showing highlights of the rest of the games including those of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. ITV also covered the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup exclusively on ITV and ITV4.

ITV has a long-standing association with European club football, broadcasting the UEFA Champions League every year from 1992 through to 2015. The broadcaster has held the rights exclusively from 1992 to 2003, before having shared it with Sky Sports since 2003. From 1997, ITV began the habit of broadcasting additional matches from the competition, at first showing one extra match per week on either the Granada Plus or Carlton Select cable channels before, following the launch of On Digital, it showed every key match through special bespoke channels Champions on 28 and Champions on 99, later ONsport 1 and ONsport 2, as well as on ITV2. This practice continued until 2009, when ITV reduced its output to just one live match per set in the competition. Live coverage ended in 2015 when BT Sport took over as exclusive broadcaster of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, although ITV's involvement with the competition remained through showing highlights of both competitions every matchweek. However ITV lost these rights in 2017 meaning that their coverage of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Super Cup will cease after the 2017/18 season as BT Sport won exclusive rights for live matches, highlights and online clip rights.

Since 2015, ITV's main football host is 5 live Sport presenter Mark Pougatch and his deputy is Jacqui Oatley. Previous presenters of ITV's football coverage include Jim Rosenthal (1983-88), Elton Welsby (1988–92), Matthew Lorenzo (1993–94), Bob Wilson (1994–99), Des Lynam (1999–2004), Gabby Logan (2004–06), Steve Rider (2006–10) and Adrian Chiles (2010–14).

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