Concacaf, soccer's governing body across North and Central America, and the Caribbean, has extended its exclusive media rights deal in Canada with the Canadian Soccer Media & Entertainment (CSME) body.
The firm, known up until recently as Canada Soccer Business (acting as a privately-owned partner of Canada Soccer), retains its position as the exclusive Canadian rightsholder for Concacaf's array of top-tier international and club soccer properties.
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It will also continue to license these rights out to the OneSoccer streaming service (owned by Timeless but strongly associated with Canada Soccer), with the platform retaining its position as the sole Canadian home of top-tier Concacaf action.
The deal – a one-year renewal – covers both men's and women's competitions, including the women's Concacaf W Championship and Concacaf W Champions Cup, as well as the group stage and quarter-finals of the men's Concacaf Nations League and Champions Cup. The agreement also covers additional youth competitions.
Victor Montagliani, president of Concacaf, has said: "With the World Cup fast approaching this summer, our confederation stands at the center of the global game, and valued partners like CSME and OneSoccer play an important role in helping us showcase our premier men’s and women’s competitions while connecting more fans across Canada to the excitement and passion of our sport.”
James Johnson, CSME's group chief executive, added: "Concacaf is a valued partner in that journey, and together we are ensuring Canadian fans have access to the competitions that matter most at a defining moment for the sport. By strategically aligning these rights within our broader media portfolio, we can amplify their impact and help Canadian soccer achieve the mainstream cut-through it deserves.”
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By GlobalDataFor CSME, this deal comes a matter of days after the division agreed a new long-term commercial partnership with the Canada Soccer governing body, running through 2037.
The new deal cements a new revenue-sharing model that will shape soccer investment in the country through the next decade.
In the past, revenue had not been shared. Instead, the former Canada Soccer Business paid Canada Soccer a set amount each year, around $3 million to $4 million, with the rest used by CSB to help fund the growing top-tier Canadian Premier League (CPL).
These new revenue-sharing terms, however, are backstopped by a minimum annual sum that is guaranteed, and the agreement also comes with two additional lump sum payments from CSME to Canada Soccer through the term.
For Concacaf, meanwhile, the last few days have seen German sports-focused broadcaster Sportdigital bolster its burgeoning sports rights portfolio through the addition of the Champions Cup.
Sportdigital will showcase as many as 15 games from the remainder of the 51-game knockout tournament, exclusively on the Sportdigital1+ pay-TV channel. This will begin with the first two knockout round games, which have been revealed as both installments of the two-legged tie between Canada’s Vancouver Whitecaps of Major League Soccer and Costa Rica’s CS Cartaginés of the country’s Primera Division.
That matchup, taking place on February 19 and 26, is notable due to the presence of former Bayern Munich and German national team icon Thomas Müller, who departed the German top-flight Bundesliga for the Whitecaps in 2025.
