Eurosport 2 is a French sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1, which is a division of the

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its international sports unit, it operates two main channels— Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territories, ...

Network and a unit of

Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with Di ...

. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ. The Eurosport 2 channel had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019, an increase in size of one million.

Launch

Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005. It is currently available in 50 million homes and 47 countries, broadcasting in 18 different languages

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

, French,

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

, Hungarian,

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...

, Serbian, Turkish,

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places * Czech, ...

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

and

Danish Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A national or citizen of Denmark, also called a "Dane," see Demographics of Denmark * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish a ...

. On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 2 in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Programming

Eurosport 2 considers itself "the new generation sports channel", and is dedicated to team sports and in particular 'alternative' and niche sports including European basketball, National Lacrosse League,

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AFL AFL may refer to: Sports * American Football League (AFL), a name shared by several separate and unrelated professional American football leagues: ** American Football League (1926) (a.k.a. "AFL I"), first rival of the National Football Leagu ...

Aussie Rules, surfing and the Handball Champions League, amongst others. On 2 July 2010, the

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announced that Eurosport 2 would show matches that the NFL Network broadcast in the

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on a tape delay for the rest of the season, as well as coverage of

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. The deal also includes rights for the entire 2011 season to be broadcast on the channel.

Eurosport 2 HD

Eurosport 2 HD, a high-definition version of the channel is also available. In central and northern Europe, it carries some exclusive programming such as

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football from

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wrestling shows and live Australian Rules Football matches, which are not available on other versions due to local networks holding the rights.

Eurosport DK

Eurosport DK was a Danish television channel owned by

Discovery Networks Northern Europe Discovery Networks Northern Europe was a branch of Discovery, Inc. It was responsible for overseeing Discovery International channels in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Ki ...

. The channel replaced

Canal 8 Sport CANAL8 Sport was a Danish television channel owned by TV4 Group and C More Entertainment. The channel was announced on July 3, 2012. The channel replaced Canal+ Sport 1 in Denmark. The reason for this is that after Canal+ lost the rights to the ...

and Eurosport 2 in Denmark on 1 July 2015. On 28 May 2015,

announced that they would merge

and Eurosport 2 into Eurosport DK in Denmark, broadcasting football from

Danish Superliga The Danish Superliga ( da, Superligaen, ) is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each ye ...

, the

, Major League Soccer, Capital One Cup,

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, Tennis from

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WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ...

and 3 Grand Slams, Cycling from

UCI World Tour The UCI WorldTour (2009–2010: ''UCI World Ranking'') is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an ann ...

Winter sport Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold are ...

, Motorsports. On 15 February 2016, the channel was replaced by Eurosport 2.

Eurosport Norway

Eurosport Norway is a Norwegian television channel that replaced Eurosport 2 since 3 September 2015.SDS Discoverys pressemelding 24. august 2015
Ny norsk sportskanal på lufta 3. september
. Besøkt 30. september 2015. . It is owned by Discovery Networks Norway and broadcasts Norwegian

eliteserien Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotio ...

and other Eurosport programming.

English Language Bundesliga commentators

Availability

Terrestrial

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(Latvia): Channel 51

Satellite

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(Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden): * Alma TV (Russia): Channel 61 *

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(Bulgaria): Channel 145 * Antik Sat (Czech Republic): Channel 43 * Big Bang TV (Russia): * Bulsatcom (Bulgaria): Channel 19 *

Canal+ Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...

: Channel 64 *

Canal+ Caraïbes Canal+ Caraïbes is a direct broadcasting satellite service serving the French Overseas Departments of the Caribbean, as well as French Guiana. The service was launched on 1 August 1998, under the name CanalSatellite Caraibes. It is wholly owned ...

(Overseas France): Channel 125 *

DigitAlb DigitAlb is an Albanian media, digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana, Albania. The TV platform began terrestrial broadcasts in July 2004, and satellite broadcasts by the end of that year. At the same time, DigitAlb beg ...

(Albania): Channel *

Digiturk Digiturk is a Turkish satellite television provider founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They provide both national television channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is als ...

(Turkey): Channel 72 * Direct One (Hungary): Channel 123 * D-Smart (Turkey): Channel 76 *

Focus Sat Focus Sat is a direct broadcast satellite television platform owned by M7 Group (Canal+ Luxembourg S.a.r.l.), a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, in Romania. At the beginning, Focus Sat Romania was owned by the majority shareholder Focus Sat Limited ...

(Czech Republic): Channel 68 * Fotelka (Czech Republic): Channel 102 * Home 3 (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) * MEO (Portugl): Channel 38 * Movistar Plus+ (Spain): Channel 67 (SD) * M:Sat TV (Serbia): Channel 40 * NOS (Portugl): Channel 131 * Nova (Greece): Channel 113 * Neosat (Bulgaria): *

Orange Polska Orange Polska (formerly Telekomunikacja Polska) is a Polish telecommunications provider established in December 1991. It is a public company traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with a controlling stake owned by Orange S.A., the latter controlli ...

(Poland): Channel 112 * Otau TV (Russia): *

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(Poland): Channel 114 * Polsat Box (Poland): Channel 15 *

Sky The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from outer space. In the field of astronomy, ...

(UK & Ireland): Channel 411 *

Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo and Sky TG24. As of 2018, following an ag ...

(Italy): 211 * Telly (Czech Republic): Channel 30 * Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 72 * Telemach (Slovenia): *

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(Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 181 *

(Croatia): Channel 121 *

(North Macedonia): Channel 171 *

(Serbia): Channel 171 * T-Home (Hungary): Channel 49 *

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(Ukraine): *

Vivacom Vivacom ( bg, Виваком) is the largest telecommunications company in Bulgaria and a former state-owned incumbent operator. The company is headquartered in the capital city Sofia and employs around 5,900 people, owning a mature distribution ne ...

(Bulgaria): Channel 215 (SD) * yes (Russia): Channel 62

Cable

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(Netherlands): Channel 137 (HD) *

Com Hem Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerke ...

(Sweden): Channel 103 *

DELTA Delta commonly refers to: * Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet * River delta, at a river mouth * D ( NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta") * Delta Air Lines, US * Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 Delta may also ...

(Netherlands): Channel 151 (SD) * Global Destiny (Philippines): Channel 36 * Digi TV (Hungary): Channel 37 * Hot (Israel): Channel 59 * Kabel Deutschland (Germany): Channel 373 * Kabel Noord (Netherlands): Channel 301 (HD) *

(Latvia): Channel 402 * Nacional'nye kabel'nye seti (Russia): Channel 56 *

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(Switzerland): Channel 81 *

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(France): Channel 152 * RCS&RDS (Romania): Channel 30 *

Serbia Broadband Serbia Broadband (branded as SBB; full legal name: ''Serbia Broadband - Srpske kablovske mreže d.o.o.'') is a cable television and broadband internet service provider in Serbia. The SBB company operates as part of the United Group, leading media ...

: Channel 268 and Channel 137 (HD) *

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(Flanders): Channel 211 * T-Home (Hungary): Channel 38 * T-Home Digital (Hungary): Channel S38 * UPC Digital (Hungary): Channel 46 *

UPC Poland UPC Polska ( en, UPC Poland) is Iliad's telecommunications operation in Poland. It is one of the largest provider of broadband internet, digital television, telephony and mobile services (as an MVNO based on Play's network) in Poland. It was founde ...

(Poland): Channel 564 *

: Channel 566 and Channel 567 (HD) *

UPC Romania UPC Romania was a telecommunications company in Romania, which provided cable television, broadband internet and fixed telephony to approximately 1 million customers. On July 31, 2019, Vodafone acquired the company and it was merged into Vodafone ...

: Channel 211 *

Virgin Media Ireland Virgin Media Ireland is Liberty Global's telecommunications operation in Ireland. It is the largest digital cable television provider within the country. As of 31 December 2014, the company offers broadband internet, digital television and d ...

: Channel 425 and Channel 426 (HD) *

Virgin Media Virgin Media is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, England. It is owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 joint ventu ...

(UK): Channel 522 (HD) * Vodafone TV (Spain): Channel 251 (HD) * WightFibre (UK): Channel 88 *

Ziggo Ziggo Holding B.V. () is the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, providing digital cable television, Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers. History The company is the result of the merger between ...

(Netherlands): Channel 411 (HD) * ZON TV (Portugal): Channel 28 (no coverage in

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) * ArtMotion (Kosovo): Channel 81 *

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(Kosovo) Channel 217 *

(Albania) * Kujtesa (Kosovo) Channel 145

IPTV

* Belgacom TV (Belgium): Channel 74 (Dutch) and Channel 85 (French) *

BT TV BT TV is a subscription IPTV service offered by BT; a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group, and was originally launched as BT Vision in December 2006. As of the end of June 2019, BT TV had 1.9 million customers ...

(United Kingdom): Channel 413 and Channel 436 (HD) *

eir Vision Eircom Limited, trading as Eir ( ; stylised eir), is a large fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland. The now privatised company, which is currently incorporated in Jersey, traces its origins to the Ireland's former ...

(Ireland): Channel 414 and Channel 428 (HD) *

KPN KPN (in full Koninklijke KPN N.V., also Royal KPN N.V.) is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company. KPN originated from a government-run postal, telegraph and telephone service and is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. History Un ...

(Netherlands): Channel 36 (HD) * MEO (Portugal): Channel 38 * MojaTV (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 35 * Movistar+ (Spain): Channel 62 (HD, SD) * On Telecoms (Greece): Channel 47 *

Open IPTV Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd is a Serbian state-owned telecommunications operator. It was founded in May 1997 as a joint-stock company, by spinning off the telecommunications business from PTT Srbija (present-day „ Pošta Srbije"). In April 201 ...

(Serbia): Channel 562 * Orange TV (Spain): Channel 101 (HD) *

Tele2 Tele2 AB is a Swedish telecommunications operator headquartered in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tele2 also has a 25% share in T-Mobile Netherland ...

(Netherlands): Channel 208 (SD) * T-Home (Hungary): Channel *

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(Netherlands): Channel 132 (HD) * Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 86 * Vodafone Tv Net Voz (Portugal): Channel 27 * iNES (Romania): Channel

Online

* eurosport.com (

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and wider region)
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(Italy)

External links

Official Site

Danish Presentation

References

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