South American soccer’s Conmebol governing body has renewed its broadcast production and distribution agreement with Spanish media rights and production agency Mediapro.
Running through the 2026 calendar year, the deal covers the annual Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana continental club championships, as well as the companion Conmebol Recopa super cup competition between the winners of the two.
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Mediapro broadcasts will be disseminated across Conmebol’s roster of prominent media partners, tailoring content to the likes of media giants Fox, ESPN, and Globo TV to enhance the content offering in different languages.
Once again, production will be centered on Mediapro’s dedicated Conmebol Hub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which facilitates the production of over 314 fixtures each year, and as many as 12 fixtures concurrently.
That facility was opened in 2018, after Mediapro won the Conmebol production and distribution contract for the competitions in September of that year.
In renewing the contract, Conmebol cited Mediapro’s experience in dealing with the competitions, as well as its presence across South America and the existing technical capabilities at the hub, which has also seen it cover the Women’s Copa Libertadores, Copa America of Futsal, and the youth-category Libertadores U-20, in recent years.
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By GlobalDataPrior to that contract, the production standard for South America’s club competitions previously varied from game to game, with Globo and Fox Sports, the rights-holders in the region, sometimes both delivering a production from the same match.
While some fixtures in Brazil, for instance, enjoyed a high standard of host broadcast, others in smaller South American countries (but broadcast back into Brazil and Argentina) suffered from a comparatively low standard.
Earlier in 2025, Conmebol also renewed its long-running media rights partnership with sport and media heavyweight IMG and its FC Diez Media arm.
FC Diez Media will continue to manage the media rights, sponsorship, and overall commercial rights for Conmebol’s slate of continental club competitions for the 2027-2030 period.
This deal covers all Conmebol club competitions, including the Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, Conmebol Recopa, the women’s Copa Libertadores Femenina, the youth category U-20 Libertadores, and tournaments in other disciplines such as the Libertadores’ of beach soccer, futsal, and esports.
FC Diez Media was formed in 2018 as a joint venture between IMG and digital sports media group Perform (it took 100% control in 2020) after IMG secured a wide array of Conembol rights in 2017 to cover the 2019-22 cycle.
IMG retained those same rights for the current 2023-2026 period, and now again from 2027-2030 in this latest renewal.
The initial partnership between the two was reportedly worth as much as $1.4 billion, and that could have increased further after two successful rights cycles.
Conmebol claims that IMG has overseen a growth in revenue generated from the club competitions of 43% from its first cycle to its second, owing not just to the number of media rights deals it has agreed to in that time but also the attraction of new major sponsors such as Coca-Cola, a deal GlobalData Sport analysts estimate to be worth $10 million per year.
