Broadcaster extends South American club soccer TV deal to Oceania and MENA. Qatar-based broadcaster BeIN Sports has added additional markets in the Oceania and MENA regions to its rights agreement for club soccer’s Copa Libertadores. The four-year deal, which takes BeIN coverage through to the end of the 2022 season, was brokered by FC Diez Media, a joint venture between DAZN Group and IMG, and will include 24 Middle Eastern territories. Those newly revealed territories add to last week announcement that the pay-TV service secured exclusive rights to South America's biggest club competition in the US and Canada. That four-year deal also included exclusive rights to the Copa Sudamericana, the second-tier soccer tournament. BeIN will broadcast all 262 matches each year from both competitions live across linear and digital channels with minimal crossover, marking the first time the company will broadcast the competition in North America and Oceania countries. As with the company’s North America deal, subscribers will be have access to live matches via the network’s English and Spanish channels, as well as BeIN Sports Connect, the broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform. Martin Aurenche, BeIN’s Vice President of sports content, said: “For our subscribers in the Middle East and North Africa, and Australia and New Zealand, these rights will become the centrepiece of our South American football coverage.”
BeIN Sports has extended its deal to broadcast the Copa Libertadores by adding the Middle Eastern and MENA regions to its existing agreement. The Qatar-based company, which had already secured the exclusive rights to show the competition in the US and Canada, has signed a four-year deal with the new regions.