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Netflix’s propulsion into unrecorded sports has snagged different large event. Today the streamer announced that it has acquired US streaming rights for the FIFA Women’s World Cup successful some 2027 and 2031. FIFA is calling the woody “a landmark announcement for women’s football.”
The 2027 variation of the tourney volition instrumentality spot successful Brazil, portion the pursuing World Cup doesn’t yet person a big nation. The Netflix sum successful the US volition see some English- and Spanish-language broadcasts, and the streamer says that it volition beryllium creating much sum successful summation to the unrecorded matches:
Studio shows and top-tier endowment volition supplement sum with commentary and entertainment. And successful the lead-up to the tournament, Netflix volition nutrient exclusive documentary programming spotlighting the apical players, their journeys, and the detonation of the athletics astir the globe.
The World Cup is the astir ambitious summation to Netflix’s increasing sports lineup, which to day has mostly included one-off events similar the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight, oregon a brace of NFL games that volition watercourse connected Christmas day. The World Cup, meanwhile, spans a period of matches with 32 nationalist teams competing. It volition beryllium a immense trial for Netflix’s fledgling unrecorded infrastructure.
It’s each portion of a increasing inclination of streaming services looking to unrecorded events — and sports successful peculiar — arsenic the adjacent frontier. Apple has gone all-in successful MLS, Amazon airs NHL games and is getting into the NBA adjacent year, portion the likes of Max, Roku, and beauteous overmuch each work person gotten into sports successful immoderate way.
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