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FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has ...
was first broadcast on
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in
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the
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. 715.2 million individuals watched the final match of the 2006 tournament (representing 11 percent of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers.


Europe


Albania


Andorra


Armenia


Austria


Azerbaijan


Belarus


Belgium and Luxembourg


Bosnia and Herzegovina


Bulgaria

Burundi


Croatia


Cyprus


Czech Republic


Denmark


Estonia


Finland


France


Germany


Georgia


Greece


Hungary


Iceland


Ireland


Italy and San Marino


Kosovo (Serbia)


Latvia


Liechtenstein and Switzerland


Lithuania


Luxemborg


Malta


Moldova


Montenegro


Netherlands


North Macedonia


Norway


Poland


Portugal


Romania


Russia


Serbia


Slovakia


Slovenia


Spain


Sweden


Turkey


Ukraine


United Kingdom

Over 100 nations have provided wall-to-wall coverage since the communications satellite launchings allowed for worldwide coverage beginning in
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. European coverage of the World Cup has been extensive since
1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
(though with the World Cup held in
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in
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
, much of the Euro coverage that year was tape-delayed). Broadcasts of the qualification for the World Cup Finals for England is currently held by ITV (terrestrial, home and away matches) with Sky holding rights for home and away matches for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These were previously held by the BBC but BBC have highlights of each home nation in their respective nation so BBC Scotland show Scotland highlights, BBC Wales show Wales highlights and BBC Northern Ireland show NI highlights. However, coverage of the World Cup Finals is on a government mandated 'protected' list meaning it must be shown on free-to-air terrestrial television ( BBC, ITV,
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,
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) as opposed to satellite or cable television. Although only one broadcaster is required, the two biggest terrestrial operators, the BBC and ITV, have always made a joint bid for coverage with broadcast of the
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matches (particularly England) alternating between the broadcasters up to the later stages of the tournament. This is believed to prevent an extremely expensive bidding war for coverage between the two networks, with the current agreement running until the 2022 tournament. In addition, when matches involved Scotland or Northern Ireland the BBC or ITV franchise holder in that area (Scottish TV, Grampian, Border or Ulster / UTV) would provide their own commentary team and presenters for those games. Notes *In the 2006 World Cup, ITV showed two of England's three group games, with the BBC showing one. However, the BBC would then have shown England through to the final, had they made it; this would have been on an exclusive basis for the round of 16 and the quarter finals (the latter being the round where England were actually eliminated), with coverage of the semi-final and final being shared with ITV. The same method was used for the 2010 World Cup, where ITV showed the first two England games, and the BBC would have shown the next two, with England's semi final shared on both channels and the Final as well, but with England eliminated in the second round, the BBC instead had the first choice of the two quarter finals, and ITV the choice of a semi final and the third place match, with both channels showing the Final. * For the 2014 World Cup the BBC showed England's first match against Italy with ITV showing the other 2 matches against Uruguay and Costa Rica. BBC had first choice for the 2nd round while ITV had first choice quarter final so if England got to the Quarters, which they didn't, the match would have been exclusively live on ITV. * For the 2018 World Cup the BBC showed England's first 2 games against Tunisia and Panama respectively with ITV showing the one remaining group stage match against Belgium. The BBC carried the quarterfinal with Sweden. ITV aired the semi-final against Croatia and the third-place play-off with Belgium. * ITV have had several sponsors over the years. For the 1990 World Cup, in one of the first sponsorship deals in British TV history, coverage was sponsored by
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. Coverage of the 1994 World Cup was sponsored by electronics company
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, whilst car company
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sponsored the 1998 World Cup. This was the first year actual idents were shown, as opposed to just the company logo, and featured comical exchanges between players dubbed over in suitable accents.
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sponsored their coverage of the 2002 World Cup, and would also go on to sponsor their coverage of the
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. For the 2006 World Cup, there were two sponsors for the first time –
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and
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. The latter would, like Travelex, go on to sponsor the
2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 2 ...
along with
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. In 2010,
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and
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were the sponsors, with Hyundai having a ''Car World Cup'' tournament, which was eventually won by Spain. The former's stings were narrated by
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. The 2014 World Cup had three sponsors for the first time,
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, Carling and Santander. Carling would have a brief spell of sponsoring England matches on ITV, replacing Continental Tyres before being replaced by
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. 2018 also had three, with
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, adopting their international campaign,
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, with a series of idents about a confident man getting 'England Champions 2018' tattooed onto him, and
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, sponsors of England's Qualifiers and Friendlies, with puns on famous England players performed by customers. The 2022 tournament on ITV will be sponsored by KFC and
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.


Former nations


Czechoslovakia


East Germany


Soviet Union


West Germany


Yugoslavia


Asia


Afghanistan


Bahrain


Bangladesh


Bhutan


Brunei


Cambodia


China PR


East Timor


Hong Kong


India


Indonesia


Iran


Japan


Kazakhstan


Kyrgyzstan


Laos


Macau


Malaysia


Maldives


Myanmar


Nepal


Pakistan


Philippines


Saudi Arabia


Singapore


Sri Lanka


South Korea


Taiwan


Tajikistan


Thailand


Uzbekistan


Vietnam


Oceania


Australia


New Zealand


Africa


Whole of Africa


Algeria


Angola


Botswana


Benin & Burkina Faso


Burundi


Cape Verde


Egypt


Equatorial Guinea


Ghana


Guinea-Bissau


Libya


Mali


Morocco


Mozambique


Namibia


Niger


São Tomé and Príncipe


Senegal


South Africa


Togo


Tunisia


North America


Canada


English-language television

Notes * CTV and TSN used their own announcers for all Canadian games during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. For all other matches they used the English World Feed.


French-language television


Mexico


United States


English-language television

Finals Notes *The first American coverage of the World Cup consisted only of a previously filmed telecast of the 1966 Final on
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. The Final was aired before their coverage of the Saturday '' Major League Baseball Game of the Week''. NBC used the
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BBC feed and aired it on a two-hour film delay. This was the first time soccer had been shown in the United States as a stand-alone broadcast. Previously, ''
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'' had shown England's Football Association Cup on as long as a two-week delay. *
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's coverage was usually week-old filmed highlights shown on ''
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''. *
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's coverage also contained week-old filmed highlights on ''
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''. *
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had no English language coverage on American television at all.


Other rounds

Notes *In
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, PBS and
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provided the first thorough American television coverage of the FIFA World Cup. ABC aired the first
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telecast of the final. ABC aired commercials during the live action. Meanwhile, PBS aired same day highlights of the top game of the day. *
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marked the first time that the World Cup had extensive live
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coverage in the United States.
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carried most of the weekday matches while
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did weekend games. To be more specific, NBC aired seven matches, including the "Hand of God" quarterfinal, with broadcasters on-site. NBC's theme music for their 1986 coverage was
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's "1980", from his 1979 album ''
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''. It was originally a cue meant for the ill-fated 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics
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. Meanwhile, ESPN aired about 25 matches that year, all with broadcasters calling matches "off tube" (off monitor) from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Broadcasting Centre on 25 John Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. *In
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, the World Cup was covered exclusively by cable television on
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in the United States and had many features about the host country, Italy. *The
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American coverage had many firsts: The first with all of the matches televised, the first with no commercial interruptions during live action, and the first to feature an on-screen score & time box. *In
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, all of the matches were televised in the United States live for the first time. *The
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American coverage had 59 matches live, and 5 rebroadcasts on ABC, with coverage from
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and
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carried live in the American late night
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. *The
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coverage from
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was fully live as well. ** Dave O'Brien joined
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on the primary broadcast team for the
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coverage on ESPN and
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, despite having no experience calling
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matches prior to that year. Because
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, owner of both television outlets, retained control over on-air talent, the appointment of O'Brien as the main play-by-play voice was made over the objections of
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, who wanted
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to continue in that role. Disney stated that their broadcast strategy was intended, in voice and style, to target the vast majority of Americans who do not follow the sport on a regular basis.
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and incorrect addressing of names, misuse of soccer terminology, and lack of insight into tactics and history plagued the telecasts, resulting in heavy criticism from
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soccer fans, many of whom ended up watching the games on
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instead. *The
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coverage from
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introduced
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for 25 matches. *The
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coverage was available on mobile devices and tablets via the
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application, as well as on
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and
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s, live and on-demand, via the ESPN on Xbox Live application. *Starting in
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, coverage is available on connected TVs, mobile devices and tablets via the Fox Sports App.


Spanish-language television

Notes *From 2002 to 2010, José Luis Chilavert joined Pablo Ramirez and Jesus Bracamontes on the booth during the Univision broadcast of the
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match. *Starting in 2018, coverage will be available on connected TVs, mobile devices and tablets via NBC Sports and Telemundo Deportes' En Vivo apps respectively, and on home devices and video game consoles such as the
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, PS4, and
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via the Fox Sports app and
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.


Central America


Costa Rica


El Salvador


Guatemala


Honduras


Nicaragua


Panama


Caribbean


Dominican Republic


South America


Argentina


Belize


Bolivia


Brazil


Chile


Colombia


Ecuador


Paraguay


Peru


Uruguay


Venezuela


English-language World Feed


Notes


See also

*By year: ** 1994 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights **
1998 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights FIFA, through several companies, sold the rights for the broadcast of the 1998 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters. Television broadcasters Notes: # Indonesia screened the tournament simulcast via 6- national free-to-air terrest ...
** 2002 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights **
2006 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights FIFA, through several companies, sold the rights for the broadcast of 2006 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters. Television Broadcasters that were confirmed to be screening some or all of the matches in standard definition are in bold. Br ...
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2010 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights FIFA, through several companies, sold the rights for the broadcast of 2010 FIFA World Cup to the following broadcasters. Television Broadcasters that screened some or all of the matches in high definition are in bold. Broadcasters that screened ...
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2014 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights The broadcasting rights for the 2014 FIFA World Cup were sold directly by FIFA, or through licensed companies or organizations such as the European Broadcasting Union, Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana, African Union of Broadcasting, Int ...
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2018 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights FIFA, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA. It took ...
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2022 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights The 2022 FIFA World Cup was an association football tournament took place in November and December 2022 involved 32 men's national teams from nations affiliated to the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). The tournament was br ...
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2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three ...
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Sports broadcasting contracts in Latin America This is a list of sports events in South America, showing the companies holding broadcasting rights under contract. Companies with rights to a wide range of sports include ESPN. Badminton *ESPN: Thomas Cup & Uber Cup; BWF World Tour Baseball ...
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Sports broadcasting contracts in Spain This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in Spain. For a list of broadcasting rights in other countries, see Sports television broadcast contracts. Football ;National Team *Spain national football team (2018–28): ** TVE (UEFA Nati ...
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Sports broadcasting contracts in the United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, sporting events are broadcast on several national television networks, as well as radio. Many of the sporting events are listed online or in different kind of apps. These apps are mainly designed by sport fans who want to ...
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Sports broadcasting contracts in the United States In the United States, sports are televised on various broadcast networks, national and specialty sports cable channels, and regional sports networks. U.S. sports rights are estimated to be worth a total of $22.42 billion in 2019, about 44 percent o ...


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World Cup broadcasting history in the U.S.

The early days of World Cup broadcasting in the USA brief history of the World Cup, European Championship and Copa America on US TVFIFA World Cup 2022 Broadcast Rights
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