{"id":44506,"date":"2022-10-24T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-free-to-air-media-rights-for-28-european-territories-awarded-to-european-broadcasting-union-ebu\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:30:07","slug":"fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-free-to-air-media-rights-for-28-european-territories-awarded-to-european-broadcasting-union-ebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-free-to-air-media-rights-for-28-european-territories-awarded-to-european-broadcasting-union-ebu\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023\u2122 free-to-air media rights for 28 European territories awarded to European Broadcasting Union (EBU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ZURICH, Switzerland, October 24, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>EBU to take rights across 28 European territories; Agreement continues long-lasting partnerships between FIFA (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.FIFA.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.FIFA.com<\/a>) and the EBU; Announcement comes just a week after the draw for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023\u2122<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>FIFA is excited to announce that it has awarded free-to-air FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023\u2122 media rights in 28 European territories* to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).<\/p>\n<p>This agreement continues the long-lasting partnership between FIFA and EBU and will see EBU member broadcasters give more coverage to women\u2019s football than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>The rights include broadcast across TV, digital and radio.<\/p>\n<p>Sarai Bareman, FIFA Chief Women\u2019s Football Officer, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Draw now complete, the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023 is set to be one of the biggest women\u2019s sporting events ever with the tournament shaping up to be another truly game-changing moment for women\u2019s football and for fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlongside FIFA\u2019s ongoing commitment to accelerate the growth and development of the women\u2019s football, free-to-air broadcasters will play an important role in attracting new audiences and growing the women\u2019s game. We look forward to working with the EBU and bringing the tournament and women\u2019s football to new fans in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup Australia &amp; New Zealand 2023 will truly be a tournament of \u201cfirsts\u201d and an incredible celebration of football and sport:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and hosted in the Asia-Pacific Region<\/li>\n<li>The first to feature 32 teams<\/li>\n<li>The first to be co-hosted by two confederations<\/li>\n<li>The first to have 9 host cities and 10 stadiums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tournament will kick off on 20 July 2023 at Eden Park in Auckland\/Ta\u0304maki Makaurau, with 32 teams competing in 64 matches across 9 host cities and 10 stadiums. finishing at Sydney\/Gadigal\u2019s Stadium Australia on 20 August 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*List of territories EBU Members will broadcast in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland (Republic of), Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, North-Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fifa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023tm-freetoair-media-rights-for-28-european-territories-awarded-to-european-broadcasting-union-ebu?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH, Switzerland, October 24, 2022\/APO Group\/ &#8212; EBU to take rights across 28 European territories; Agreement continues long-lasting partnerships between FIFA (www.FIFA.com) and the EBU; Announcement comes just a week after the draw for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023\u2122 FIFA is excited to announce that it has awarded free-to-air FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2023\u2122 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}