The BBC will show a minimum 18 matches a season live across its main channels as part of the broadcast dealThe BBC will show the Women’s Super League on network free-to-air TV for the first time in a “landmark” three-year broadcast deal.From next season, WSL games will be shown live across the BBC and Sky in the deal worth £7m-£8m per season.Remaining matches not selected for broadcast by the BBC or Sky will be shown live on FA Player.The BBC will broadcast 22 live matches, with a minimum of 18 shown on BBC One or BBC Two.Sky Sports will provide coverage of up to 44 matches screened across the Main Event, Premier League and Sky Sports Football channels.The agreements with both broadcasters will run until the summer of 2024.The Football Association’s Kelly Simmons expects the deal will give the WSL a massive audience boost.”It is one of the biggest deals commercially, definitely for women’s football in terms of a domestic deal, and up there for women’s sport,” she said.”We have benchmarks for what we think are the most successful, high-profile women’s sport leagues in the world like the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) and the NWSL (National Women’s Soccer League), and they are low hundreds of thousands in terms of an average peak per week. “We anticipate this would significantly be above that.”England and Manchester City captain Steph Houghton told BBC Sport it was an “amazing step forward” for women’s football and the players can’t wait to “show the world… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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BBC to screen WSL on TV next season in ‘landmark’ broadcast deal
