Viaplay and the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) have agreed a four-year partnership that makes Viaplay the exclusive home of a wide range of popular football rights in Sweden. From 2025, Viaplay will show approximately 800 live matches spanning the women's national team, the men's and women's Swedish Cup, and national youth teams and national futsal teams for both women and men. Viaplay recently kicked off its coverage of OBOS Damallsvenskan, Sweden's top women's football league, and will stream at least 60 matches of Sweden's men's national team from this autumn as well as the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.
The agreement includes all Sweden's qualifiers for the UEFA Women's EURO and FIFA Women's World Cup, along with international friendly matches. Fans can also enjoy each round of the men's and women's Swedish Cup; all matches played by the women's U-23, U-19 and U-17 and men's U-21, U-19 and U-17 national sides; and all Sweden's qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup, UEFA Futsal EURO and UEFA Women's Futsal EURO and international friendly futsal matches.
Viaplay's extensive coverage will include world-class studios, highlights and support programming. Selected matches will be broadcast live on TV6.
Anders Jensen, NENT Group President and CEO: "Viaplay is now the home of Swedish national team football. Fans can follow both the successful women's side and the new generation of men's super-talents on our world-class streaming platform. The Swedish Cup - 7 different winners in the past 10 men's editions - adds many exciting games with the country's biggest clubs. This is a fantastic complement to our international rights portfolio, and we're excited to work with SvFF to bring Sweden closer to its favourite stars."
Håkan Sjöstrand, SvFF General Secretary: "We are very happy to reach this agreement with Viaplay, which strongly confirms the increasing interest in our women's national team - and of course in women's football in general. We see great advantages and opportunities in gathering all coverage of our national teams, and the Swedish Cup, on such a distinguished platform as Viaplay - which will be the case from 2025 and onwards."
In Sweden, Viaplay also shows live football from the Premier League, Bundesliga, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's leading women's football leagues, EFL Championship and FA Cup, Eredivisie, Superliga, Scottish Premiership, CAF Champions League, Copa América and more.
In March, NENT Group announced (https://www.nentgroup.com/news/news-releases/nent-group-proposes-rebrand-viaplay-group-2004161) a proposal to rebrand as Viaplay Group, subject to approval at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 18 May.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Nordic Entertainment Group AB (publ) (NENT Group)'s Viaplay streaming service is available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the US and the Netherlands. Viaplay will launch in the UK in 2022, followed by Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the end of 2023. We operate streaming services, TV channels, radio stations and production companies, and our purpose is to tell stories, touch lives and expand worlds. Headquartered in Stockholm with a global perspective, NENT Group is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (`NENT B'). NENT Group has proposed to rebrand as Viaplay Group, subject to approval at its Annual General Meeting on 18 May.
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