ESPN FC Website Now Publishing Premier League Goal Highlights

ESPN has begun publishing goal highlights from the Premier League on its ESPN FC website.

UPDATE: ESPN says that their ESPN FC website has been publishing highlights of Premier League goals since December, 2013. Plus, ESPNFC.com also offers highlights of goals from the UEFA Champions League. We weren’t aware of the availability of the videos until last weekend, so apologies for errors in our reporting. But the good news is that ESPNFC.com offers highlights of Premier League and UEFA Champions League goals! The goals from the Champions League games are usually posted after the games end, while the Premier League goals are posted minutes after the ball goes into the net.

The new development began today during Gameweek 8 of the Premier League. Previously, the NBC Sports website had exclusive online rights to goal highlights from August 2013 onwards. However, the recent development reveals that NBC Sports must have agreed to sublicense online highlights to ESPN whereby both NBC Sports and ESPN share the Premier League highlights on their respective websites. The videos are only viewable by people in the United States.

Details regarding the deal were not disclosed.

NBC Sports is the Premier League rights holder until the end of the 2015/16 season. While ESPN FC is publishing match highlights of the league on its website, it still doesn’t own the rights to broadcast entire EPL games on TV or Internet.

Currently, the NBCSports.com website doesn’t an easy-to-find central portal where you can see all of the Premier League videos it has rights to. You have to hunt and peck through NBCSports.com and Pro Soccer Talk to find what you’re looking for, and even then, it’s time consuming and difficult to find everything. By entering a deal with ESPN, NBC Sports is providing soccer fans in the United States with more options, which is good news no matter what Premier League team you support.