List of Scottish Professional Football League broadcasters
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Scottish Professional Football League The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is the national men's association football league in Scotland. The league was formed in June 2013 following a merger between the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League. As ...
(SPFL), the top four levels of competition of football in Scotland.


History

The SPFL was formed in 2013 by a merger of the
Scottish Premier League The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was the top level league competition for professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football' ...
(SPL) and
Scottish Football League The Scottish Football League (SFL) was a league featuring professional and semi-professional football clubs mostly from Scotland.One club, Berwick Rangers, is based in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is located approximately 4 km south ...
(SFL). The league inherited media rights arrangements made by the SPL and SFL with Sky Sports and BT Sport. The domestic rights deal was amended in 2014, following the relegation of Edinburgh clubs Hearts and Hibernian to the Scottish Championship. In 2013, SPFL sold its international broadcast rights in a £20 million, 10-year deal with sports content distributor MP & Silva. As part of this arrangement, in November 2013 a Chinese network PPLive TV agreed to show 58 live SPFL games a season. A deal was agreed in July 2015 for up to 55 SPFL matches to be shown on "mainstream" Chinese television in the following three seasons, as part of the longer-term arrangement made in November 2013. The agreement with MP & Silva was rescinded in August 2018, as it had defaulted on its payments. In 2018, it was announced that Sky Sports will take over exclusive live rights for the Premiership from the
2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...
season.


Broadcasters


International


Club online streams

Due to broadcasting restrictions, clubs cannot show games live in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. However, during social distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic clubs in the Premiership will be able to broadcast games in the UK and Ireland, as long as they're not already scheduled to be broadcast by Sky Sports.


References

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