Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has been named as the brand new streaming service for the Girls’s Tremendous League and Girls’s Championship.
The Girls’s Skilled Sport have confirmed the fixtures for the 2024/25 season for the highest two tiers. Sky Sports activities and the BBC are the present rights holders for the WSL and can broadcast 66 of the 132 fixtures between them.
Sky and Now TV will present 44 video games all through the WSL marketing campaign, a rise on the 35 matches within the earlier TV deal. The BBC will air 22 reside video games and a minimum of 18 of these will likely be on BBC One or BBC Two, whereas all of them will likely be accessible on iPlayer.
In earlier seasons, the non-broadcast WSL fixtures and choose Championship matches have been proven on the FA’s streaming platform, the FA Participant. Nevertheless, from the beginning of the brand new marketing campaign, this may transition to YouTube with video games set to be streamed globally on every division’s respective channels – Barclays WSL and Barclays WC.
The channels may even home common non-match content material, together with highlights, interviews and entertaining shoulder content material. The FA Participant will proceed to host Adobe Girls’s FA Cup fixtures and content material.
Nikki Doucet – CEO of the WSL and Championship – stated: “It’s a landmark second for us with our transition to YouTube as our streaming service. The FA Participant has been a massively vital a part of the expansion of girls’s soccer lately, and the free-to-air attain it has afforded our groups has been essential in our improvement.
“Coupled with the high-quality protection offered by our broadcast companions Sky Sports activities and the BBC, watching the ladies’s skilled recreation right here within the UK has by no means been simpler. As we proceed our journey into the NewCo, YouTube will provide much more supporters, each present and future, the chance to get pleasure from our wonderful leagues at a click on of a button.”
The Girls’s Championship begins on the weekend of seven/8 September and Newcastle United’s go to to the London Metropolis Lionesses will likely be proven on YouTube. Matchday 2 on 14/15 September will see Bristol Metropolis host Birmingham Metropolis, with the match additionally chosen for broadcast on YouTube.
The WSL will then start on the weekend of 21/22 September, with Aston Villa’s go to to Chelsea chosen for broadcast on the BBC, though the precise date and time of that fixture continues to be to be decided. On 22 September, Arsenal host Manchester Metropolis of their opening recreation which will likely be proven on Sky Sports activities because the 12:30pm kick-off.
Matchday 2 sees Chelsea journey to face Crystal Palace on the Friday night time in a night conflict proven on Sky Sports activities. BBC Two will then broadcast Man Metropolis’s recreation towards Brighton on 29 September, as soon as once more within the noon slot.
