Sky Sports Reveals Premier League Coverage Plans
Sky Sports will launch its Premier League football coverage this month with a new range of programming and analysts including the return of Gary Neville.
Neville will rejoin Sky Sports as an analyst and commentator, taking his place alongside Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher, Jamie Redknapp and Graeme Souness. He will also join Jamie Carragher for guest appearances on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.
This season Sky Sports will show 126 matches, with the schedule of live matches beginning with four games in three days, featuring Leicester City, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool.
For the first time, Sky Sports will show up to ten live matches on Friday evenings. Coverage of these fixtures will be presented by Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley alongside guests from inside and outside the world of sport.
David Jones will present Super Sunday and Monday Night Football, while Simon Thomas will host Saturday lunchtime matches. Hayley McQueen will present Game of the Day beginning at 8:30pm Saturday evenings, as well as live 3:00pm Saturday fixtures for viewers in the Republic of Ireland.
Gary Hughes, head of football, Sky Sports said: “It’s Sky Sports’ biggest ever Premier League season and our viewers can enjoy the best matches, the best analysis and the best shows. Following Leicester City’s incredible triumph, we all know anything can happen this season and Sky Sports viewers can watch all the stories unfold at both ends of the table from next month through to May.”
Gary Neville said: “I am delighted to be rejoining Sky Sports and can’t wait for the start of the new football season, especially as there will be a variety of new programming on the channel. It is important for me that my role will be slightly different, and I am looking forward to the challenge of working on some new, creative and exciting projects.”
From this season, Sky Sports customers can use the expanded mobile clips service delivered by the Sky Sports Football Score Centre app to watch all the goals from Saturday’s matches on their mobile devices from 5.15pm. The broadcaster also signed a deal with Twitter to offer real-time clips of Premier League matches.
