topic No Premier Leage in TV

No Premier Leage

Sam594 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:44:03 GMT

Hello, I've just returned back to the UK, did my research and selected EE so that i could watch Premier /league football games. Iwas told in an EE shop to get broadband + a TnT / Discovery + bundle to access all the games - i've siunce found out you can't and that EPL games are screened on 3 different service providers....Can this even be true? legal? and does anyone have advice about what to do? Thanks!

Re: No Premier Leage

bristolian — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:29:17 GMT

This is an issue of who holds the broadcasting rights for particular sports & competitions. Football is not my sport at all, but from recollection the Premier League is currently split between Sky & TNT, with Sky holding by far the most dominant bulk. The rest of English football I believe is Sky-held.

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_broadcasting_contracts_in_the_United_Kingdom which I've usually found is fairly accurate.

Re: No Premier Leage

zulu17 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:06:42 GMT

Hi @bristolian

The Premier League live TV rights have effectively been divided into typical 5 or 6 packages which broadcasters have been able to bid seperately on. Typically two or three different broadcasters end up winning one or more packages. The last auction was held in December 2023 and covers four seasons from 2025/6 season. Historically the reason the Premier League split the rights up was as a result of the EU Commission agreement with the Premier League from 2005 as reported by the BBC at the time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4444684.stm

So currently Sky has the majority (4 packages of live games) , TNT has one package of live games. So you would need a TNT Sports (or discovery+ Sports) and Sky Sports (or Now Sports) subscriptions or included in a TV package to see all the available Pemier League live games.

The Saturday 3pm Premier League games are normally not broadcast live. here This is a UEFA restriction that the FA have invoked. details at

https://www.uefa.com/about/how-we-work/uefa-administration/marketing/blocked-broadcasting-hours/

Re: No Premier Leage

zulu17 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:31:00 GMT

sorry my explanation should have bee directed to @Sam594