Bein Sports Extends Super League Rights
BeIN Sports, the French pay-television broadcaster, will continue to show live coverage of Super League matches this year.
The rights deal, which was agreed between the English rugby league competition, French club Catalans Dragons and the broadcaster, will cover the 2022 Betfred Super League season.
The agreement initially covers nine of the 13 Dragons home games, with beIN Sports also showing a number of UK-based Super League fixtures, in addition to the play-offs and the Grand Final, which will take place at Old Trafford in Manchester on 24th September.
As a result of the new deal, the Dragons’ 2022 season opener away to St Helens at Totally Wicked Stadium, scheduled for 10th February, will now be broadcast live on beIN Sports.
The game is a repeat of the 2021 Super League Grand Final, which the Dragons lost 12-10 in the team’s first-ever appearance in the title-deciding occasion.
Super League has also confirmed that the tournament’s primary UK live rights-holder, Sky Sports, will broadcast Catalans’ first two home games of the season against Wakefield Trinity on 19th February and Wigan Warriors 12th March.
Super League Chairman, Ken Davy, said, “On the back of a fantastic 2021 season for Catalans Dragons it is great that we can reach an agreement that will see beIN broadcast so many games from France. The fantastic scenes in Perpignan when the Dragons defeated Hull KR in the semi-final to make the 2021 Grand Final will live long in the memory.”
For the first time this season, Catalans will have a French rival in Super League, with the addition of Toulouse Olympique to the roster of top-tier teams.
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