SuperSport, the regional pay-TV heavyweight that spans Sub-Saharan Africa, has renewed its broadcast rights for the LIV Golf League for its 2026 edition.
The service has broadcast LIV Golf action since the tour’s launch in 2022, with the new agreement coming ahead of the tour's first event in South Africa, which will take place from March 19 to 22 at the Club at Steyn City course in Johannesburg.
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Hometown players Louis Oosthuizen, Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, and Charl Schwartzel all compete in LIV Golf for the South Africa-focused Southern Guards GC team, which will be of particular interest to SuperSport viewers.
Indeed, SuperSport already aired a five-part docu-series on the team, which is available on the DStv CatchUp service.
Speaking on the partnership, Rendani Ramovha, the director for sport and content in English and Portuguese-speaking Africa for SuperSport owner Canal+, commented: “This partnership with LIV Golf is a credit not just to the broadcast capabilities of SuperSport in bringing the world’s finest golfers in immaculate broadcast quality to viewers across Africa, but to South African golf as a whole."
Canal+ finalized its acquisition of SuperSport parent MultiChoice in 2025, and since then has added to the brand’s rights portfolio with competitions such as basketball’s NBA and the recent Africa Cup of Nations soccer competition.
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By GlobalDataRamovha added: “As part of our integration into the global Canal+ Group ecosystem, we are committed to leveraging our best-in-class production and technical facilities to showcase the South Africa event to the rest of the world. This will pave the way for developing golf further in Africa.”
SuperSport’s presence in LIV’s global coverage mix indicates that, after its controversial entry into the golf picture four years ago, the project has finally built out a portfolio of major broadcasters for its events.
LIV secured a trio of new broadcast deals in key European markets last month, including TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, Sky Deutschland in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH), and streaming platform Viaplay in the Nordics.
Last year, it struck its most significant rights deal, a multi-year agreement in the US with Fox Sports.
The series also has deals with Coupang Play in South Korea and Movistar Plus+ in Spain, as well as an agreement with international sports streaming DAZN.
The 2026 LIV Golf Season features 14 events across 10 countries and five continents, and began in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from February 4 to 7. It will also include stops in Adelaide, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, the USA, and the UK, among others.
This coming season will feature 57 players, including the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Joaquín Niemann, and Tyrrell Hatton, alongside Masters champions Sergio García, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, and Phil Mickelson competing across 13 teams, alongside five Wild Card entrants.
For its part, Canal+’s Multichoice owns both SuperSport and the DStv pay-TV network, which together hold the vast majority of English-language rights in Sub-Saharan Africa to top-tier sports properties, including English Premier League soccer, American football’s NFL, motor racing’s Formula 1, and all major international cricket tournaments.
Multichoice boasted almost 22 million subscribers as of September 2023, and upon the acquisition, Canal+ stated that it had 31 million subscribers across the continent from its combined businesses.
The 2026 LIV Golf Season features 14 events across 10 countries and five continents, including the league’s first-ever event in South Africa (March 19-22), as well as stops in Adelaide, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, the USA, and the UK, among others.
