From the start of the 2025-26 season, English soccer's Women's FA Cup knockout tournament will be covered live domestically (and in Ireland) by a combination of TNT Sports and Channel 4 through the end of 2027-28.
For the next three seasons, pay-TV broadcaster TNT Sports will cover 19 matches annually from the cup competition, starting with one in the first round and one in the second, while free-to-air commercial network Channel 4 will cover six games per campaign (one game per round).
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The showpiece final at the end of each season will be shown live by both broadcasters, it has been announced today by the Football Association (FA) governing body.
During the current cycle, running from 2021 through 2024-25 (the competition's final this season is on Sunday), the Women's FA Cup has been shown live by the BBC, the UK's public-service broadcaster, through a deal unveiled in May 2019. Through that tie-up, the BBC shows both semi-finals and the tournament final live, while it also holds highlights and digital clips rights.
For TNT Sports (owned by Warner Bros. Discovery), this links up with the broadcaster's four-season deal covering the men's FA Cup, also from 2025-26 onwards, while it also covers the men's FA Youth Cup.
In terms of Channel 4's soccer rights portfolio, meanwhile, mid-April saw the broadcaster snap up rights to the men's 2025 UEFA U21 European Championship national team event (it also aired the 2023 edition of that tournament). The broadcaster will showcase all England games during the tournament, taking place between June 11 and 28 in Slovakia.
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By GlobalDataMark Bullingham, the FA's chief executive, commented: "We have two broadcast partners who are deeply committed to growing the competition and taking it to new audiences over the next three seasons."
The final of the 2024-25 Women's FA Cup – title sponsored by Adobe – will see Manchester United take on defending holders Chelsea (also the winners of this season's Women's Super League).
The WSL is being shown live this season – and then through 2029-30 – by a combination of TNT Sports' pay-TV rival Sky, and the BBC. A five-year extension to that effect was unveiled last October, with a total reported value of around $84 million.
