How much do sports cost in Europe?

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1. That all depends. I think as in most countries there isn’t one single company that holds the rights for everything in the Netherlands.

2. Serie A, the top Italian football league, is shown on DAZN, together with the Spanish league, Europa League and other minor football competitions for 30 euros monthly.

   Then there’s Sky Sport with all the three European Cups competitions, Formula 1 races, tennis tournaments and basketball games, all for 45 euros (31 euros in the first 18 months) monthly.

   Sky Calcio, instead, includes national football leagues from Italy, England, Germany and France for 30 euros (in the first 18 months at 20 euros) monthly.

3. we pay something over 200 CZK (around 10 EUR) for a cable with 10+ sports channels. Almost everything I want to watch is covered by national tv sport channel anyway.

4. You can usually stream tv stations for free on their websites afaik

5. This is figures for streaming
   77 USD per month for Premier League, La Liga, Seria A, Champions Leauge, biking, Chess, Track and Field, eSports, Martial Arts, Motorsports, Winter sports, Poker and Swimming and Norwegian Håndball, Basketball and Ice hockey.
   27 USD per month for Ligue 1, Horse riding and futsal
   Approx 42 USD for Bundesliga, NHL, UFC, Ski cross snowboarding and ski jumping + Sky Bet Championship.
   19 USD for Olympics, Eliteserien Allsvenskan, PGA Tour, Australian Open, WRC,ATP Tour, Giro D Italia, La Vuelta, UCI Track Champions League.
   These figures will change in the Next year when Premier League changes from Tv2 Play to Viaplay and Eliteserien Changes from Discovery+ to TV2 Play

6. It’s included in almost every cable provider, which again means you’d pay anywhere from 20 to 50 euros for internet (100/200/500Mbps) and TV with 300+ channels

7. Sky Sports is £18/month, but you’d also need a Sky package to go with it, so you’re realistically looking at at least £41 a month.

   BT Sport can be got for an additional £15 a month on top of a BT TV and internet package. Alternatively you can pay £40 a month for BT Sport and Sky Sports combined.

   Occasionally some sports are shown live on Amazon Prime as part of the standard cost.

8. It’s pretty hard to figure out, since a lot of the time you subscribe to a streaming service that has multiple sports, some of you watch and some that you don’t. I pay about 40€ in total monthly to watch WRC and F1, and then a month or two of some other streaming services every once in a while to watch some big sporting events, like 24 hours of Le Mans or the major tennis tournaments.

   Anything else I’d like to watch is free on TV. Like CL finals, IIHF WC, football world cup, olympics of course, et cetera. And every once in a while I might accidentally find a free stream of an NBA or NHL game online.

9. Viaplay *(Premier League, NHL, F1, cross-country skiing etc)* : 339 SEK/32€ per month

   Cmore *(Champions League, Swedish Hockey League etc)* : 199 SEK/19€ per month

   Then there is also Discovery+, which owns the rights to the Swedish football league. I couldn’t find what it costs but everyone I’ve spoken too thinks it’s really bad and incredibly overpriced.

10. A decade ago or so most sports aired free. Now you can see most stuff with a few bucks a month.