Sky Sports wins rights to EFL till 2024

Sky Sports has strengthened its position as the home of football with a new deal to show live coverage of the EFL until 2024, offering Sky customers more matches and more ways to watch than ever before.

The new agreement means that from the start of the 2019/20 season, Sky Sports Football will show up to 183 matches exclusively live each year in the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One, Sky Bet League Two, Carabao Cup and Checkatrade Trophy - a 26 per cent increase in the number of games on our current deal.

For the first time, Sky Sports will be able to broadcast 80 Sky Bet Championship midweek matches across interactive and digital platforms, taking the total number of potential matches available to Sky Sports customers and EFL fans to over 260, from the current 145 games. The additional midweek games will also be available across the EFL iFollow streaming service.

The agreement includes:

More matches, up to 183 exclusive live games per season

Further 80 midweek Sky Bet Championship games across interactive and digital platforms

15 live matches from the Carabao Cup, including both semi-finals and the Wembley final

Rights to offer live coverage across a range of Sky platforms, including online and on mobile

Culled from Sky Sports

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