{"id":686341,"date":"2026-05-22T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:45:08","slug":"paramount-remains-the-home-of-australian-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686341\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount+ Remains The Home Of Australian Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) today announced a three-year extension of their media rights partnership, keeping Paramount+ as the exclusive streaming home of Australian football.<\/p>\n<p>A-League viewing on Paramount+ is at record levels in the 2025\/26 season, up 55% since the 2021\/22 season. Across Paramount+ and Network 10, the A-League season has already reached 4 million Australians on streaming and broadcast TV ahead of the Final Series.<\/p>\n<p>Under the renewed agreement, every Isuzu UTE A-League Men&#8217;s match and every Ninja A-League Women&#8217;s match will be available live on Paramount+, making it the only place to watch all the action as it happens.<\/p>\n<p>Network 10 will complement this with free-to-air access, broadcasting one men&#8217;s match per week and ten women&#8217;s matches per season, including the Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p>Every Ninja A-League Women&#8217;s match will also stream live and free on 10 Streaming. Marquee men&#8217;s games will air on 10&#8217;s primary channel.<\/p>\n<p>Fans on Paramount+ will also have access to minis, highlights and replays of every match. Network 10 will host Football Tonight, their pre-game show ahead of every free-to-air match, while the A-Leagues&#8217; popular Total A-Leagues and DubZone shows will be available on 10 Streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Cush, Director of Sport, Paramount Australia and New Zealand, said:<br \/>\n&#8220;We are incredibly proud to continue our partnership with the Australian Professional Leagues and to build on the strong foundation we have established together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe A-Leagues&#8217; future in this country is bright, and we are determined to play our part in expanding its reach, growing its audience and giving football the platform it deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Rosich, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Professional Leagues, said: &#8220;After an extensive open market process that showcased the demand and value of the A-Leagues, we are really pleased to renew our partnership with Paramount+ and Network 10, the home of Australian football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process confirmed that Paramount+ and Network 10 provide us with not just a strong commercial outcome, but the greatest free-to-air exposure of any alternative offering, with Paramount+ delivering the reach and affordability that football fans deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ is the only place to watch every game live. The platform&#8217;s football offering includes:<\/p>\n<p> \tAll CommBank Matildas and key CommBank Socceroos matches<br \/>\n \tEvery Isuzu UTE A-League Men&#8217;s and Ninja A-League Women&#8217;s match<br \/>\n \tThe AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027<br \/>\n \tThe FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup Brazil 2027<br \/>\n \tThe Winter Festival of Football in July, featuring an extraordinary lineup of matches across three iconic tournaments, headlined by the prestigious Sydney Super Cup<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ subscription plans start from $7.99 per month or $70.99 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026\/27 Isuzu UTE A-League and Ninja A-League seasons will kick off on 16 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Virtual Australia, OzTAM, Regional TAM, Cumulative Reach 2025-26 season (Men and Women\u2019s) to May including Paramount+ incremental unique viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the Australian Professional Leagues (APL) today announced a three-year extension of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-686341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}