{"id":258941,"date":"2025-10-29T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258941\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:35:07","slug":"fifa-dazn-team-for-global-soccer-streamer-ahead-of-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258941\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA &#038; DAZN Team For Global Soccer Streamer Ahead Of World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fifa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fifa\" data-tag=\"fifa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA<\/a> World Cup 2026 right around the corner, soccer\u2019s governing body has teamed with streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dazn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dazn\" data-tag=\"dazn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN<\/a> to relaunch FIFA+, the streaming service that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/04\/soccer-body-fifa-kicks-off-global-streaming-service-fifa-plus-fulwell-73-series-live-matches-ronaldinho-doc-1235000534\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first debuted back in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFIFA and DAZN are calling the new-look FIFA+ the \u2018Global Home of Football,\u2019 offering live and on-demand top-tier leagues, highlights and exclusive behind-the-scenes access from more than 100 men\u2019s and women\u2019s national teams and club leagues. A multichannel news service in multiple languages will also be offered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHowever, the service will not provide live World Cup coverage, as this is already sub-licensed around the world. Billions are expected to tune into the tournament, which is being held in the U.S., Canada and Mexico over summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFIFA+ on DAZN will be available free around the world when it launches next year. The two organizations teamed earlier this year for the Club World Cup in the U.S., which Mattias Grafstr\u00f6m, FIFA Secretary General, called \u201crecord breaking.\u201d They claimed drew a combined global audience of 2.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIn a short period of time, the partnership between FIFA and DAZN has proven to be a remarkably successful one,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShay Segev, group CEO of DAZN called the launch \u201cgame-changing step forward,\u201d adding, \u201cOur new global football platform marks a significant milestone in our successful partnership with FIFA, and is an exceptional addition to DAZN\u2019s extensive portfolio of premium football content. From next year, millions of fans around the world will be able to enjoy even more top-tier football content for free on FIFA+ on DAZN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDAZN has been among the most aggressive sports rights investors for several years now, and has supercharged its ambitions since selling a minority stake to Surj Sports Investment, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSaudi leader and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was on hand for the FIFA+ contract signing, alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino and DAZN founder Len Blavatnik, who has invested billions into the streamer over the past decade, despite it posting hefty losses. DAZN <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/dazn-acquires-foxtel-news-corp-rupert-murdoch-1236240585\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired<\/a> Australian pay-TV service Foxtel in a $2.2B deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Companies House filing in October showed it lost $936M in 2024, down from $1.4B the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the FIFA World Cup 2026 right around the corner, soccer\u2019s governing body has teamed with streamer DAZN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[37769,7183,8363,403,99],"class_list":["post-258941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-dazn","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}