DAZN gets exclusive rights to the 2025 Fifa Club World Cup

DAZN will be the exclusive global broadcaster of the 2025 Club World Cup. The deal was announced on 4 November on the eve of the draw for the new Fifa-sponsored event scheduled to take place next summer in the United States. All 63 matches in the tournament, which involves 32 of the world's top clubs, will be broadcast free of charge via live streaming globally, in multiple languages. The world's leading sports entertainment platform will be able to sublicense the free-to-air rights to other linear TVs in the various markets. The partnership debuts with the draw that DAZN will broadcast live globally and free-to-air from Miami on Thursday 5 December 2024 (7pm Italian time).

The FIFA Club World Cup will kick off on Sunday 15 June 2025 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, bringing together the 32 best clubs from around the world to play matches at 12 venues in the United States over a 29-day period, culminating with the final at MetLife Stadium in New York, New Jersey on Sunday 13 July 2025.

"FIFA, in partnership with DAZN," emphasised FIFA President Gianni Infantino, "will bring the best of club football free to the world, which means that every single football fan will be able to watch the best players from the 32 best clubs compete in the new FIFA Club World Cup to become the first official 'FIFA Club World Champions'. It is a new merit-based and inclusive tournament that will represent the pinnacle of global club football, capturing the imagination of players and fans around the world. Thanks to this agreement, billions of football fans around the world will now be able to watch the most accessible club football tournament ever for free. Football unites the world'.

The agreement for the exclusive global broadcast rights to the FIFA 2025 FIFA Club World Cup marks the beginning of a broader partnership between DAZN and FIFA that includes the integration on the DAZN platform of FIFA+, the library of football's most iconic moments and full replays of FIFA matches, as well as live events. DAZN already has a portfolio of content viewed by over 300 million viewers in more than 200 markets. "This groundbreaking agreement with FIFA is an important milestone in our journey to become the ultimate entertainment platform of choice for sports fans everywhere," said Shay Segev, DAZN's Chief Executive Officer. We are delighted to have acquired the exclusive rights to this new chapter in global club football, which marks the beginning of our long-term partnership with FIFA and solidifies our role as football's platform of choice. DAZN is the only sports streaming platform that has a true global reach, with world-leading technology and a unique focus on delivering the best digital experience to all sports fans."

For Italy, Inter and Juventus will take part in the event. The other European clubs are: Atlético de Madrid, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Porto, Real Madrid and Salzburg. For Africa: Al Ahly (Egypt), Espérance Sportive de Tunisie, Mamelodi Sundowns FC (South Africa), Wydad AC (Morocco). For Asia: Al Ain FC (UAE), Al Hilal (KSA), Ulsan HD (KOR), Urawa Red Diamonds (JPN). Finally, for North and Central America: Monterrey (MEX), Pachuca (MEX), Club León (MEX), Inter Miami and Seattle Sounders (USA)