The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the wide-ranging alliance of the continent’s public service broadcasters, has expanded its coverage rights for the 2026 and 2030 editions of the elite FIFA World Cup soccer tournament.
This latest agreement secures tournament coverage free-to-air in the markets of Azerbaijan (İctimai), Iceland (RÚV), and Malta (PBS), across linear TV, digital broadcast, and radio.
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Coverage will be supplemented by content from Eurovision News Network, the EBU’s international news exchange platform, which will provide ancillary content and shoulder programming across the tournaments.
In terms of the 2026 World Cup, Iceland is still in with a chance of qualification for the tournament, and Azerbaijan could still secure a play-off berth, although Malta has been eliminated from qualification contention.
The 2026 tournament will be held across the US, Mexico, and Canada, while in 2030 it will be staged jointly by Morocco, Portugal, and Spain, with matches also to take place in South America.
With this agreement in place, the EBU adds to its previous tie-up with FIFA for the rights to the 2026 and 2030 World Cups, which covered TV and radio broadcasters in Bulgaria (BNT, BNR), Czechia (Cesky Rozhlas, Ceska Televize), Croatia (HRT), and Hungary (Duna, MTVA), as well as Israel’s Public Broadcasting Corporation (2026 only).
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By GlobalDataThe EBU had previously secured broadcast rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023.
