CazeTV, the Brazilian sports streaming channel founded by YouTuber Casemiro Miguel, has added yet another major soccer competition to its bulging sports rights portfolio.
Through a sublicensing deal with the Disney-owned ESPN broadcaster in Brazil, CazeTV will show one game per week from English men's soccer's top-tier Premier League via its YouTube channel.
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The announcement regarding this significant rights acquisition was made yesterday, during CazeTV's coverage of the opening match from the 2026 FIFA World Cup national teams soccer tournament (for which CazeTV is also a broadcast partner).
ESPN holds Premier League rights in Brazil through the 2027-28 campaign, with a three-season deal to that effect having been unveiled in February, 2025.
Prominent Brazilian players attached to the league's 20 clubs include the likes of Gabriel (a title-winner with Arsenal in 2025-26), Brentford's Igor Thiago, Richarlison at Tottenham Hotspur, Rayan at Bournemouth, and Liverpool's Alisson.
This deal follows on, in terms of CazeTV's coverage of European soccer, from the channel unveiling a major rights agreement covering Spain's LaLiga, in mid-May.
That deal covers the 2026-27 to 2031-32 cycle, and will see CazeTV’s YouTube channel become the league’s main rightsholder in Brazil.
It also airs Italy's Serie A and Germany's Bundesliga.
First launched in 2022, CazeTV covered action from the men’s 2022 FIFA World Cup, before securing rights to all 104 matches from this year's FIFA World Cup – being held across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
It snapped up domestic rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2027, which will be held in Brazil, to provide exclusive live coverage of all 64 matches to its wide-reaching audience on third-party digital platforms.
Most recently, the channel diversified its portfolio by securing a rights deal with the International Olympic Committee to air the Olympic Games through 2028.
This is also not the first Disney-CazeTV tie-up in June – earlier this week, the Disney+ OTT platform was confirmed as being set to provide coverage of the FIFA World Cup, through the renewal of a distribution agreement with CazeTV.
The extended agreement maintains CazeTV’s presence within ESPN's offering on Disney+.
