SPFL Negotiating Improved Sky Sports Deal
The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) is close to extending its deal with Sky Sports until 2029 in a £29.5m deal, according to various reports.
Sky’s existing deal with the SPFL, which allows a maximum of 48 games a season, is due to expire in 2025.
The Guardian reports that under the revised terms, Sky will continue with that limit this season and next, at a cost of £25.7m and £26.7m respectively.
From the 2024-25 season the 60-match limit triggers a £27.6m payment which will increase by almost £2m for the next four seasons. Sky will have the option of further 10-match SPFL bundles at the cost of around £4m from 2024-5.
The new deal, which will include more live games on offer for Scottish football supporters, would equate to around £150m in total.
Talks are reportedly still at an early stage and, as yet, Sky has no competition from rival broadcasters.
BT Sport has previously shared coverage with Sky in Scotland but left opted not to renew its rights from the start of the 2020-21 season.
Under the current deal, Sky owns the rights to all SPFL matches and clubs cannot sell non-televised games to rival broadcasters or broadcast on pay-per-view platforms in the UK and Ireland. However, it is thought that the clubs are keen for this to change in the new agreement with a license to sell secondary rights.
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