American living in London here, trying my hardest to get into Premier League football but it’s…so hard to watch matches?! I don’t “have” a team in particular yet, but I’d like to be able to stream as many matches and teams as possible. Is there a particular streaming service I can buy? I don’t have cable or Roku. If I was in the States I’d get an ESPN package and be done with it, but I can’t find anything similar here that doesn’t seem connected to a satellite dish or some kind of larger cable/internet package. I feel like it must exist because I can see the TV of my neighbors across the way who seem to constantly have some kind of EPL match going. Thanks for the help!
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You need a dodgy box.
Otherwise you have to pay for Sky Sports, TNT Sports/BT and Amazon Prime.
No, sadly.
The closest legal way you can do it is to get a NowTV subscription which will give you access to the matches shown in Sky Sports. You’ll still miss out on those shown by TNT and the occasional round shown by Amazon.
Are you trying to get into football or premier league football ?
Because you could just go to different clubs and watch games live which is a much richer more enjoyable experience.
3pm games on a Saturday are not televised in the UK
I’m not having you on, as daft as it sounds. It is currently impossible, in the UK, to legally watch all games for a UK team you support on tv
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Could you not get ESPN+ and use a VPN?
Iptv you get all the sport channels an ppvs aswel
This is going to be a longish post because its complicated but here goes.
Firstly, forget about any other sports or any other countries, if you compare against other sports/countries/channels it won’t make any sense. Also, parts of how it works doesn’t have much logic to it – so start with a clean state.
Second, everything below this line is how it works officially – there are ‘unofficial’ ways to watch all of the games through other countries.
Lastly, you need deep pockets – footballer’s crazy salaries don’t come cheap.
With that out of the way, here goes.
Main thing to understand is only 200 of the 380 games each season are on TV. The only way to watch the other 180 is to go to the game. No matches are broadcast by the clubs or the PL themselves, they are all on 3 broadcasters: Sky Sports, TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) and Amazon Prime. Each game shown is only on one of the broadcasters so you need all of them if you want to watch all 200 live.
The traditional way to watch is through an expensive pay TV package for Sky sports/TNT – either through Sky (satellite) or Virgin Media (cable). Nowadays, all of them have streaming services. Amazon is quite new and streaming only.
Here’s how the games are split:
+ Firstly, any game on Saturday at 3 pm will not be on TV, this is a rule to protect the traditional football slot and attendances at lower league games.
+ 40 of 200 games are ‘full’ weeks where all 10 games are shown. 2 of these weeks are on Amazon and 2 are on TNT Sports.
+ That leaves 160 games which are split 128 on Sky Sports and 32 on TNT Sports
+ These 160 are spread across the remaining 34 weeks in the season. So that’s roughly 4-5 per match week
So Sky have the most games, and most of the ‘big’ games. If you’re getting one package it should be Sky (through the traditional ways or via its Now TV streaming service). If you have amazon prime already then it’s games are basically ‘free’. There’s no real way to predict which games will be on TV or not or which broadcaster they will be on. The only thing that’s guaranteed is that clashes between the ‘big 6’ will be on TV.
Hope this helps, but happy to answer any questions.