NRK and TV2, two of Norway’s public-service broadcasters, have snapped up two packages of rights masking the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League (UWCL) golf equipment event for the subsequent rights cycle.
By way of 2029-30, NRK and TV2 will every present one sport per spherical of the UWCL, with the deal masking 5 seasons.
In complete, NRK will cowl seven matches from every marketing campaign, with TV2 set to indicate six. The channels will cowl the assorted Norwegian groups set to compete, in addition to video games from the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the ultimate itself (to be aired by NRK).
The 2025-26 season will see each Brann and Valarenga from Norway compete in the UWCL, and, as well as, that prestigious fixture will happen within the Norwegian capital of Oslo, at Ullevaal Stadium.
This tie-up has been introduced following a wider UWCL tie-up with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) having been unveiled in Might, entailing linear, digital, and radio protection of the soccer competitors for the subsequent cycle.
The EBU-UEFA deal covers 24 territories, with that quantity – apart from Norway – additionally together with the UK, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden. In complete, 26 EBU members will cowl UWCL motion – some members of that record are as follows:
AMPTV (Armenia), ORF (Austria), RTBF/VRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia), ČT (Czechia), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), ZDF (Germany), MTVA (Hungary), RUV (Iceland), RTÉ (Eire), PBS (Malta), NOS (Netherlands), NRK/TV 2 (Norway), RTP (Portugal), RTS (Serbia), STVR (Slovakia), RTVE (Spain), SRG SSR (Switzerland), TRT (Türkiye), and UA:PBC (Ukraine)
The EBU has formally unveiled the tie-up right now, with Stefan-Eric Wildemann, the top of soccer, basketball, and digital acquisitions for EBU Sport, saying: “Free-to-air entry stays one of the highly effective instruments for rising the ladies’s sport, and this deal ensures much more followers can comply with the motion because the competitors enters an thrilling new period.”
This comes the day after the ultimate of the UEFA Ladies’s European Championships, which EBU members additionally held rights to.
Along with linear protection, the Eurovision Sport over-the-top platform run by the EBU may also present protection, together with “highlights on a weekly foundation in chosen territories.”
Espen Olsen Langfeldt, NRK’s sports activities editor, has particularly commented, in the meantime: “Now we have many Norwegian profiles in girls’s soccer who play for the most important golf equipment in Europe, and we’ve got Norwegian golf equipment which can be additionally making a reputation for themselves internationally. With this settlement, all of Norway can comply with them for a number of years, and the icing on the cake would be the last at Ullevaal Stadium subsequent yr.”
The principle physique of UWCL rights via 2029-30, nonetheless, at the moment are held by media large Disney, with that heavyweight’s Disney+ over-the-top streaming service set to cowl all 75 UWCL fixtures every season throughout the continent.
The UWCL European media rights tender, opened in December 2024, was managed by company Two Circles, which in June 2024 was appointed because the unique media gross sales company and sponsorship company for the UWCL throughout the 2025-2030 cycle.
Disney takes over from world sports activities OTT service DAZN, which has held the rights because the 2021-22 season.
The UWCL will change codecs for the 2025-26 marketing campaign, transferring to a league part with 18 sides, adopted by a playoff spherical, growing the variety of video games on provide.
The 2025-26 league part begins on October 7.
