UK pay-TV giant Sky Sports has renewed its broadcast partnership with digital-focused six-a-side soccer competition Baller League, which began its second season on October 27.
The dominant broadcaster will continue to show every Baller League fixture throughout the season on both its linear channels and its OTT platform Now TV.
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Additionally, Sky Sports will also now, for the first time, air live watch-alongs for Baller League fixtures on its Sky Sports Football YouTube channel, which boasts over 744,000 subscribers.
Having begun yesterday, the Baller League campaign will continue through 11 regular-season gameweeks, each taking place on a Monday night, running through January 5, 2026, followed by a season-ending Final Four showdown at a date yet to be decided.
The games are staged weekly at London’s Copper Box Arena, featuring six 30-minute matches. and feature several former soccer stars, alongside various media personalities, as team managers.
This includes Deportrio (Micah Richards and Daniel Sturridge), 26ers (John Terry), N5 FC (Jens Lehmann, Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg), and Rukkas FC (Idris Elba).
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By GlobalDataSky Sports already holds a strong suite of UK soccer rights, including the top-flight domestic Premier League, the lower-tier EFL competitions (running from second- to fourth-tier), Scotland’s Premiership, and women’s soccer’s WSL.
In terms of international rights, it also showcases German soccer’s elite Bundesliga.
For Baller League, this agreement comes as the competition rides the wave of a major international expansion push, one that will see it enter the US market in 2026 with its third regional competition (the league began in Germany).
In August, Baller League secured a partnership with sports marketing and media agency Team Marketing, which will look to support Baller League’s sales efforts.
