The trio of men's UEFA pan-European club soccer competitions will be broadcast in Belgium during the next cycle by the Disney+ streaming service, it has been reported.
The deal, widely reported across Belgian media, will see media and entertainment heavyweight Disney hold exclusive rights to air the top-tier Champions League (UCL), second-tier Europa League, and third-tier Conference League for the four-season 2027-31 cycle across the country.
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It has been reported that Disney+ will need to find a free-to-air (FTA) broadcast partner for any home games of Belgian sides in those competitions – these fixtures are listed as protected events under Belgian legislation, meaning they must be covered FTA domestically.
A duo of Belgian teams – Club Brugge and Union Saint-Gilloise – competed in the 2025-26 UCL season, with Club Brugge making it out of the initial group stage before losing over two legs to Spanish heavyweights Atletico Madrid.
The ongoing 2025-26 UCL is being aired in Belgium by a combination of VTM (Dutch-language FTA), RTL (French-language FTA), as well as the Telenet and Proximus telecoms firms – both on a pay-TV basis.
The Europa League and the Conference League, meanwhile, are covered in that market by VRT and RTBF (both FTA), as well as Telenet on an exclusive Dutch-language basis, and pay-TV's BeTV.
UEFA, through its partner agency Relevent Sports (which now has a dedicated Relevent Football Partners arm for its UEFA dealings), began its tender process for these rights in Belgium in early March, with a deadline for submissions of April 21.
At the same time, separate processes also went live in Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Central America, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Slovakia, South America (excepting Brazil), Sweden, and Switzerland.
Rights to these competitions have already been allocated in the 'Big Five' European markets of the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France, late last year.
Those covered four seasons (2027-28 to 2030-31) and were the first tender processes to be managed by US agency Relevent, which replaced UEFA’s longstanding sales partner Team Marketing in that position in late 2024.
Aside from the key quintet of European markets listed above, UEFA and Relevent have also selected one or more preferred bidders in Albania, Kosovo, and Japan, as well as for in-ship and in-flight rights (those rights have been held since the category was brought in by the Sport24 service).
For Disney+, meanwhile, that service already holds rights across Europe – including in Belgium – to the UEFA Women's Champions League, with that deal running between 2025 and 2030.
It is covering all 75 UWCL games each season, while also producing shoulder content.
