CBS Sports, the Paramount-owned US sports network, has secured exclusive English-language rights to air all women’s competitions organized by Concacaf, soccer’s governing body across North and Central America, and the Caribbean.
The deal, which runs through the 2029-30 season, will see streaming platform Paramount+ provide coverage live coverage of all matches from the governing body’s four women’s competitions, with select matches co-airing on the linear CBS Sports Network and CBS Sports Golazo Network.
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The competitions covered by the rights deal include the W Gold Cup, W Nations League, and W Championship national teams tournaments, as well as the W Champions Cup, the region’s club soccer property launched during the 2024-25 season, through the duration of the contract.
Concacaf general secretary Philippe Moggio said: “With the launch of a revamped Concacaf W ecosystem in 2024 – now featuring three major centralized senior national team competitions as well as an annual elite club tournament – our Member Associations and their teams have unprecedented opportunities to compete at the highest level, while their fans can closely follow and enjoy every step of the journey.”
Coverage will start with the W Championship qualifiers, which begin on February 27, with the eight-team Championship, scheduled to run between November and December, used to determine which nations qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 and the 2028 Summer Olympics.
The four editions (2026-27, 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30) of the W Champions Cup will determine qualification for the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup in 2027 and 2029, as well as the inaugural FIFA Women’s Club World Cup in 2028.
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By GlobalDataThe inaugural edition of the W Nations League in 2028 will feature a group stage in February and April, followed by the finals in November that year.
Finally, the second edition of the W Gold Cup is scheduled for the northern hemisphere summer of 2029.
As part of the deal, CBS Sports will provide highlights and editorial coverage across all competitions on CBS Sports Golazo Network, CBS Sports Network, CBSSports.com, and the CBS Sports app, as well as across the @WGolazo social media handles.
The deal follows Concacaf striking a similar deal last May with TelevisaUnivision, the US Spanish-language media giant, covering Spanish-language rights to the governing body’s full range of women’s competitions through 2030.
The rights build on CBS Sports’ previous deals with Concacaf, struck in 2021, which covered exclusive English-language rights to national teams' properties, including qualifiers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, the men’s Nations League, and the Women’s Nations League.
That followed the broadcaster’s coverage of nearly 80 Concacaf men’s World Cup qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
Other soccer properties CBS holds the rights for include the UEFA Women’s Champions League, Italy’s Serie A and Serie A Femminile, the English Football League and Carabao Cup, the United Soccer League, the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup, and the Scottish Professional Football League.
