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UEFA Europa League kicks off

SBS will broadcast up to 10 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League games a match week live, delayed and replayed.

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les-murraySBS will kick-off  the UEFA Champions League play-offs with live coverage  from 4.30am AEST on Wednesday 19th August.

SBS will be showing more games than ever before, broadcasting up to 10 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League games a match week live, delayed and replayed across SBS ONE and SBS TWO.

Each matchday SBS will continue to broadcast a live morning match on SBS ONE and a second morning game during non-daylight savings times. Complementary coverage will follow on SBS TWO in prime time each match week when the network broadcasts a new match Wednesday to Friday evenings at 8.30, and replays the UEFA Champions League match of the day each Wednesday at 10.

The network will also broadcast the one-off clash between reigning European club champions, Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk, live from Monaco in the UEFA Super Cup. Catch host Mariana Rudan and SBS chief football analyst, Craig Foster, on Saturday 29 August from 4.30am AEST.

“With the recent launch of SBS TWO, and a comprehensive new agreement with UEFA, SBS is now able to offer more games each match week than ever before,” said SBS Head of Sport, Ken Shipp.

“This means football fans will have a bigger selection of games to watch across SBS ONE and SBS TWO.”

Les Murray and Craig Foster will review the action on the pitch in the UEFA Champions League Hour, Thursdays at 10pm on SBS ONE and replayed Fridays at 7.30pm on SBS TWO each match week.

Audiences can also catch up on all the action in the UEFA Europa League Highlights, UEFA Champions League Magazine program and Les Murray’s Football Feature during the three hours of football programming on Sunday afternoons from 3pm.

For more information, go to www.sbs.com.au/theworldgame.

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  3. Great to see this commitment to football from SBS. These Euopean competition really is the best football you will see anywhere in the world. SBS does have a responsibility to show international sports, and there is no sport more international than football. Baggygreen – I agree that there should be room for more niche sports that you mentioned, but I do not agree that there is too much football on SBS.

  4. Being a personal fan of football I love how both SBS and One are broadcasting more European matches.

    Baggygreen, football is an international sport. Throughout Europe it is one of, if not the, most popular sport played. True there should be more broadcasting of these niche sports, but in terms of popularity, both in Australia and overseas, football is far greater than any of the above you mentioned.

  5. geez baggygreen, thought I noticed some minor sporting event called the ashes on SBS I think? Cricket is hugely exciting when wake up during the broadcast because you know Ricky will be scratching his chin thinking about something important

    isn’t SBS funded in part by advertising – oh that’s what you meant by public okay then.

  7. It is fantastic news. It means football fans get to see matches involving clubs from all over Europe.

    Also well done to Channel Ten for getting live football for their sports channel. There is a live German match on Saturday nights. And apparently there might be some live Italian matches as well.

  8. I am sorry but I dont see this as positive. there is already plenty of soccer (yes thats it name here) on both fta (one has just put the Bundesliga on) and pay. Surely SBS has a responsibility to show ‘international’ sports – isnt that their charter. Hurling, Handball, Volleyball, table tennis are all sports that are hugely popular in other countries. SBS is not a sports channel its a cultural cahnnel and should be covering these types of sports. SBS’s obsession with spending public money on their pet sport (soccer) needs to stop.

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