It’s that time again. After an extremely short winter break, the second half of the Bundesliga starts on Friday evening with the traditional duel between autumn champions Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
After a three-week break, the Bundesliga will start the second half of the 2021/22 season on the weekend. Some important changes to broadcasting rights apply again this year. Gone are the days when just a Sky subscription was enough to make the football heart beat faster. In addition to the pay TV provider, streaming services such as DAZN and Amazon are now also involved, and even classic TV channels such as Sat.1, ARD and ZDF broadcast some games. In this overview you can see who is broadcasting which games and when.
Sat.1 and DAZN show the opening game between Bavaria and Gladbach
Traditionally, the second half of the season begins on matchday 18 with a duel between the defending champion and a well-known challenger. FC Bayern will go into the game as hosts and will receive the crisis-ridden Gladbach on Friday, January 7th at 8:30 p.m.
It is the third game between the two teams. The first round duel in Borussia Park ended 1: 1. A few months later, the Gladbach team shot Bayern 5-0 out of the DFB Cup. Now the star ensemble of coach Julian Nagelsmann wants to return the favor.
The game will be broadcast on the private television broadcaster Sat.1, which celebrated its comeback on the national football stage in the new season. At the same time, the game is also running on ran.de and sat1.de as well as in the stream on the in-house provider Joyn. Sat.1 had already broadcast the Supercup between champions and cup winners as well as one game on the 1st and 17th matchdays. At the end of the season, the relegation games are also shown on Sat.1 on free TV.
The streaming provider DAZN will also broadcast the start of the second half of the season and all 105 other Bundesliga games on Friday and Sunday. Only Sky broadcasts more games of the top German league live. From summer 2021 DAZN customers will pay 14.99 euros per month or 149.99 euros per year. In addition to the Bundesliga, you will also receive all games from the top European leagues from Spain, France and Italy as well as various other international sporting events.
Sky loses a large part of its Bundesliga rights
Since the beginning of the season, the pay-TV channel Sky has only broadcast the 200 Saturday games, all games during the week and relegation to the first division. In addition to the traditional Saturday conference, individual games can be individually combined into a separate conference from September onwards. However, the feature is reserved exclusively for Sky Q customers.
The Bundesliga package from Sky currently costs 30 euros per month and 25 euros per month with an annual subscription. In return, football fans will also receive all the matches in the 2nd Bundesliga, which this year has traditional clubs. If you want to book the DFB Cup, Premier League and Formula 1, you can do so for 22.50 euros per month.
Highlights: The sports show and sports studio will be retained
Even if the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF will no longer be able to watch live football, a lot remains the same. On Saturday evening at 6:30 p.m., ARD will broadcast the summaries of all games from the afternoon and Friday in the sports show. Extensive highlights of the Sunday games can be seen in the daily news and topics of the day as well as in the third programs.
On the late Saturday evening, ZDF is concentrating on the traditional program “The Current Sport Studio” with detailed reports on the top game in the evening, as well as other highlights from Saturday and a studio guest. On Sunday morning, Sport1 will broadcast the highlights of all previous games before and after the one-two. If you don’t want to wait that long, you will receive short highlight clips of the individual games directly after the final whistle at Bild and DAZN.
Live broadcasts at a glance:
- Sky: All games on Saturday and in English weeks as a single game and in the conference; plus DFL Supercup and Bundesliga relegation
- DAZN: All games on Friday and Sunday
- Sat.1: One game each on the 1st, 17th and 18th matchday; plus DFL Supercup
Source From: Stern
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