{"id":24983,"date":"2026-06-26T03:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/24983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:35:18","slug":"bbc-secures-more-wimbledon-and-uefa-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/24983\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC secures more Wimbledon and UEFA Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deals with the All England Club and UEFA secure more free live sport via the BBC\u2019s broadcast and streaming outlets.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wimbledon to stay on the BBC until 2033<\/li>\n<li>Coverage of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland men\u2019s football games to remain free-to-air until Euro 2028.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC Sport and The All England Lawn Tennis Club have announced a new agreement that will see the Wimbledon tennis Grand Slam remain free-to-air for audiences across the UK through to and including 2033.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the All England Club let it known they were concerned about the BBC\u2019s i<a href=\"https:\/\/rxtvinfo.com\/2026\/bbc-told-to-revamp-wimbledon-coverage-but-will-traditionalists-turn-off\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"26724\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ncreasingly \u201cstale\u201d coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC says the new deal means viewers and listeners can continue following the action from SW19 each summer across all of its traditional broadcast and streaming outlets, plus social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Licence fee payers have been promised that the BBC\u2019s coverage will include \u201cdeeper storytelling, enhanced analysis, and technology\u201d going forward. Viewers will have a greater choice of match coverage through the BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>Free-to-air coverage of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland men\u2019s football<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the BBC has extended its rights agreement with UEFA for a further two years. It means every Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland senior men\u2019s international football match remains live and free-to-air until June 2028. Free-to-air coverage of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish men\u2019s football had become a hot topic after previous rights were snapped up by Viaplay, which has since exited the UK sports market. The BBC stepped in to offer free-to-air coverage in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new agreement will see the BBC broadcast around 60 live matches across the next two years, including this autumn\u2019s UEFA Nations League fixtures and every European Qualifier to Euro 2028 involving the three nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITV holds the equivalent rights to England games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By: Marc Thornham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deals with the All England Club and UEFA secure more free live sport via the BBC\u2019s broadcast and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6934,6522,54,285],"class_list":["post-24983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-bbc","tag-feed","tag-news","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}