Serie A has yet another new home in the UK and Ireland with DAZN replacing OneFootball as the league’s main broadcaster from next season.

TNT, who scaled back its involvement last summer, will continue to show two fixtures per round, including one on Sunday night, but the bulk of the matches will be on the streaming platform.

The deal is a significant move from DAZN, whose football exposure in Britain had been limited to the National League and the Club World Cup.

For Serie A lovers, meanwhile, it marks yet another change in broadcaster, continuing a trend that saw calcio’s top flight broadcast across BT Sport between 2013 and 2018, with Eleven Sports Network, Premier Sports and FreeSports – now ViaPlay – stepping in over the next few seasons.

The carousel eventually stopped in 2021, when Serie A returned to BT Sport.

The broadcaster, rebranded as TNT Sports in 2023, provided near wall-to-wall coverage of Serie A, with just about every game live every weekend plus a dedicated studio show – Golazzo – featuring James Richardson and James Horncastle.

While Premier League fans in Britain needed three subscriptions to watch a fraction of their games, Serie A followers could get their calcio fix by watching TNT Sports.

It was as close to the halcyon days of Football Italia as it got. As it transpired, it was also too good to be true as TNT drastically cut down their coverage to just 76 games last season.

OneFootball stepped in to secure streaming rights to every Serie A game in Britain and Ireland via their website and app. It was a surprising choice for Serie A, who pivoted to a direct-to-consumer offering and away from traditional broadcasters.

Like OneFootball, DAZN is a streaming platform and the deal with Serie A comes just months after it snapped up TV rights to the Club World Cup by pouring £736m into FIFA’s coffers for the privilege.

DAZN has hoovered up domestic rights to Serie A in Italy, Bundesliga in Germany and LaLiga in Spain, but until the Club World Cup its major exposure to the UK viewers had come through boxing.

Here, Destination Calcio answers your questions about watching Serie A in the UK and Ireland next season.

Will Serie A be on DAZN next season?

Yes, Serie A will be mostly shown on DAZN in the UK and Ireland after it replaced OneFootball as the league’s main broadcaster.

The streaming platform secured exclusive rights to up to eight matches per round, with two non-exclusive rights. 

In practical terms it means DAZN will broadcast over 300 Serie A matches next season. Crucially, however, they will adhere to the Saturday afternoon blackout in place between  2:45pm and 5:15pm.

That means that on selected Saturdays, the early Italian game, which kicks off at 2pm in the UK, will not be available to watch in the UK and Ireland.

Last season OneFootball broadcast the early Serie A kick-off on Saturdays, despite it falling within the blackout window.

Significantly, as part of the deal, DAZN has also snapped rights to the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana, which were broadcast on Premier Sports last season.

Subscription prices are yet to be announced.

What does this mean for TNT?

TNT have retained the same package it held last season, meaning it will broadcast two games per round.

Like last season, one of the two fixtures will be the Sunday night game, which kicks off at 7:45pm in the UK.

What about OneFootball?

OneFootball stepped in at the 11th hour to rescue Serie A fans in Britain last summer after TNT scaled down their coverage, but have lost their rights after just one season.

The platform still holds the broadcasting rights for a number of minor European leagues outside their own country, along with rights for live matches and highlights packages for the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League outside of Europe.

What is Serie A’s relationship with DAZN?

DAZN has been Serie A’s domestic broadcaster along with Sky Sports since the 2021-22 season.

In October last year the two companies agreed a £760m deal that will see them continue as the rights holder for another five years.

Significantly, the offer is £21m lower than the three-year deal which ran from 2021 to 2024.

To put the figure into context, the Premier League currently generates £4.5bn per season from domestic TV rights, while the Bundesliga’s contract with Sky and DAZN, is worth £900m a season and LaLiga’s new deal with Telefonica is worth £1.1bn a season until the end of the 2026-27 campaign.

Much as is the case in England where Sky Sports broadcasts significantly more games than TNT, DAZN carries the bulk of games in Serie A, showing seven matches per round exclusively, with the remaining three fixtures available across DAZN and Sky.