If you’re trying to find out where to watch UEFA Champions League on US TV, you’ve come to the right place.
Last updated: May 14, 2020
The UEFA Champions League is the most exciting and prestigious yearly club competition in the entire world. The European tournament pits the top teams from around the continent against each other until there is only one club standing in May. Powerhouse teams such as Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Liverpool and Real Madrid regularly feature in the mammoth tournament.
To illustrate how popular the final it, the 2014/15’s Champions League final was viewed by an estimated 180 million viewers from over 200 countries worldwide compared to the Super Bowl, which generates a worldwide audience of 160 million.
Meanwhile, while some have labeled the Europa League a secondary tournament, there are still some very solid clubs to feature year in and year out of the competition. Teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Sevilla, Roma, Sporting CP, CSKA Moscow and others.
Where to watch UEFA Champions League on US TV
FOX Sports no longer has the rights to the Champions League and Europa League in the United States. The new rights holders are Turner Sports (on their TNT channel), B/R Live (for English-language streaming) and Univision Deportes (for Spanish-language TV and streams). fuboTV streams both TNT and all of the Univision channels. All 137 UEFA Champions League matches will air live across Univision’s platforms this season, including more than 80 on linear networks Univision, UniMás, TUDN and Galavisión. (The 2018-2019 UEFA Champions League on the Univision networks was most-watched edition in the competition’s history on U.S. television, regardless of language, reaching nearly 22.2 million).
Group Stage coverage of the tournament begins in September each year.
One of the biggest changes that soccer fans will notice with the UEFA Champions League coverage is the kickoff time. Instead of most of the matches kicking off at 2:45pm ET on a UEFA Champions League matchday, they will be begin at either 12:55pm ET or 3pm ET, which will allow broadcasters to feature a double-header of soccer coverage (see below):
• Group Stage: September through December, with weekly matches held Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 12:55 p.m. ET and 3 p.m. ET. All matches will be available on B/R Live, with one match per game window (two each day) televised on TNT,
• Round of 16: February through March, with matches on B/R Live and TNT each Tuesday and Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET
• Quarterfinals: April, with live coverage on B/R Live and TNT at 3 p.m. ET
• Semifinals: May, with matches on B/R Live and TNT at 3 p.m. ET
• Final: Saturday, May 30 on B/R Live and TNT
Where to watch UEFA Europa League on US TV
In a seismic shift in how consumers are offered UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches in the United States, the only Europa League game featured on television will be the final (on TNT and B/R Live). Meanwhile, TNT will televise many UEFA Champions League games throughout the season. That’s in stark contrast to FOX Sports’ coverage of the Champions League where they showed 146 games per season on television. For the Europa League, FOX Sports had 205 Europa League matches on TV compared to TNT’s one.
TNT will televise UEFA Champions League games throughout the season. Univision broadcasts the Spanish-language coverage of the tournament on US television.
Games are streamed across fuboTV, B/R Live, Watch TNT and Sling TV.
Beginning with the 2021/22 season of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, CBS Sports will broadcast the competitions on U.S. television and streaming. On the Spanish-language side, Univision will continue to broadcast the UEFA tournaments.
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SEE MORE: Schedule of UEFA Champions League games on US TV and streaming.
If you have any questions about where to watch UEFA Champions League on US TV, let us know in the comments section below and we’ll reply as soon as we can.
How to listen to the Champions League
Starting this season, UEFA is broadcasting two matches per day live with audio only via a service called UEFA Matchday Live. It’s being streamed live on the UEFA Champions website and the UEFA Champions App.
The broadcasts feature a host, who will take the broadcast from the featured match to one of the other matches when a goal happens.
Also, select UEFA Champions League matches will also air across the country on the TUDN Radio network and the TUDN Radio channel on SiriusXM.
Finally, many pubs/sports bars air live Champions League and Europa League matches throughout the season. Some European club websites even provide a list of supporter groups here in America, along with each specific city’s home pub (for example: here is a list of Arsenal supporters in the U.S. and also a map of where you can find bars that are Chelsea friendly).
Guides on how to watch leagues
• Bundesliga
• Championship
• Champions League
• Europa League
• LaLiga
• Liga MX
• Ligue 1
• MLS
• Premier League
• Serie A
Hi,
I would like to know where to watch UEFA champions league final on US TV
It’ll be on FOX and ESPN Deportes. More info is on the UEFA Champions League page at http://worldsoccertalk.com/champions-league-tv-schedule/
This is FALSE!!!! TNT owns CL coverage now and have moved most games to Mexican TV networks and the web!
This is retarded and an epic fail. Nobody is going to pay $79.99 to watch the champion live on stream and hope the connection is good to go on a smart phone or a 13inch iPad Pro when costa is selling on average 65 inch tvs… you can’t garentee to call friends over to watch together if the bleacher report app won’t connect with the smart tv. Freaking technology should make things easier not harder … epic fail by TNT b/r live and champions league in the states .. forced to learn Spanish now
It’s embarrassing. Although watching it in Spanish is better than nothing at all
Who wants to watch soccer on a hone or laptop??? NOT ME!!!! Fox committed three High Def (English Language) cable networks (FS1, FS2 and FSN) to the Champions League!!! Turner networks are criminals who want to blackmail the US market!
* Costco not costa
Will the TNT games also be available on FuboTV or just the ones that aren’t being aired?
And will FuboTV have the games in English or Spanish?
Spanish only. But there will be far many more games in Spanish on Univision than in English on TNT.
Hey Chris! Are you getting paid by TNT???? You seem to be defending the FACT that TNT has moved more games to the web and Mexican TV…. This years coverage is a disaster for any US soccer fan who speaks English! Fox and ESPN before them, provided HD TV coverage with English speaking announcers for virtually all EPL team games…. Now Turner networks has removed EPL teams from cable TV, while they also try to BLACKMAIL the fans into paying extra to watch games on a crap smartphone or laptop…. This is terrible!!!
OMG they are trying to blackmail you to pay for a product that they paid hundres of millions for, oh the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turner has no ownership or anything in Univision btw.
Leave it to Ted Turner to mess everything up. A real arse
i have DIRECTVNOW . for $40/month on my plan list i can see TNT and TruTV
but not sure if i can watch champion league on these two channel
or Fubo TVis the only one to watch ?
TNT will televise 46 UEFA Champions League games throughout the season. The remaining games will be on B/R Live.
The other option is to watch the games in Spanish on the Univision channels, which are streamed via fuboTV (fuboTV has TNT and the Univision channels).
But you still have to pay for FuboTV…
I was going to pay for this whole season even though I hate the stupid channel TNT because they are the only game in town. Now these greedy ****s have done the impossible by making a simple thing complicated in the name of squeezing more $$ from everyone, stupid ****, I am not even going to bother looking at their plans. TNT can go **** itself.
Absolutely insane! Taking the game away from the people who make the game! Not interested in this anymore.
You list PlayStation Vue as carrying some Europa League matches but when I contacted them they said they only carry Champions League.
You’re correct. They have the Europa League Final since it’s on TNT, but they don’t have any of the other Europa League games.
Very disappointed in the reduced programming in the US this year. Honestly, I rarely have time to watch the full games anyway, so in recent years I’ve relied on the nightly UEFA Champions League Highlights show to catch me up on the games and see all the sweet goals. It doesn’t look like Turner/TNT is going to be showing anything like that.
B/R Live has the CL Highlight Show on the main page as the featured piece.
I just checked B/R Live and I still do not see the CL Highlight Show. I didn’t see it yesterday either.
Here’s Wednesday’s highlights show: https://live.bleacherreport.com/soccer/soccer-tournament/events/uefa-cl-highlight-show-919/52254
Thanks Chris! As noted below by drdigital1, it appears Turner is charging the equivalent of an entire month’s subscription ($9.99+) for a single highlight show. I’m a little surprised at the cost of the recap show when a live match can be purchased for $2.99.
Indeed “B/R Live has the CL Highlight Show on the main page as the featured piece” but at $9.99+
The highlights are available on BR youtube channel for free (mentioned on TNT post game show)
TNT B/R Football Post Match Show is really unique: instead of a goal, the viewers can see player’s celebration, instead of full highlights they will redirect you to own You Tube website.
This is insane. Why even pay for a cable subscription when all of these networks charge above and beyond for content that was streamed for free (included as part of cable subscription) in the past.
It is a shame what’s happening this season and unfortunately for many more seasons as well. I grew up with soccer, was delighted to be able to watch so many games here in the US. Thanks to greedy companies the interest for soccer will go down the drain. More and more kids play soccer, love to watch it and now? I for sure will not pay all this extra money and have to listen to Spanish speaking commentators . I don’t speak Spanish! So extremely disappointed!
WOW companies want you to pay for a product they paid hundreds of millions in rights fees for, how greedy!!!!!!!!!!! Call the UN, this may be a human rights violation!
This is going backward, not forward. I can’t say enough how disappointed I am in the downgrade of TV coverage in the US over the last 10 years. Remember when DTV had every single PL match, every single match day, each on it’s own dedicated channel, and it was all FOR FREE! And it was the broadcasts straight from english tv too. Remember when so many people were complaining about Fox? How do those people feel now?…
I feel great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And please let us all know how you got Direct TV for free??????? If you get a bill for something it’s NOT FREE!!!!!!!!!! What is it with people on here thinking this was free before or that ESPN 3 was free?
Don’t be dense! People got all the games before with their cable subscription. That’s no longer the case because the networks decided based on the cable ratings to outbid each other into paying insane amounts of money for rights to games. They’re now trying to pass the cost of their bad decisions to consumers. And make no mistake, they still want you to pay for both cable AND their premium platforms since neither has all the games. It’s the case with B/R Live, NBC Sports Gold and ESPN+. That decision will go down in flames because they won’t get as many subscribers as they had hoped, the cost of rights stays where it is and football becomes less available to us all in the US. Everyone loses.
But Payasos the keyboard warrior with his extra question marks and exclamation points wants to lecture us on what networks paid a bunch of money for and as such have a right to charge whatever they want for it.
For years…. FOX Sports broadcast virtually all Premier League team games in the Champions League and Europa League over cable TV!!!!!!
Now TNT has moved 5 of the 6 EPL team games to freaking Mexican TV!!!!! Pathetic!!!! And I will not pay extra to watch the games on the web either!!!!
Mexican TV? Good grief you’re clueless, you know TNT does not own or have any part of Univision right????? TNT has those games on B/R live, why doesn’t it shock me that you can’t pay $10 a month for it?????
This is utter B/S. I have this thing called a job during the day so record CL/Europa matches especially those involving Premiership teams in the evening. TNT is about to ruin coverage of the world’s premier club competition for English speakers in the U.S. TNT you suck!!!
this sounds like a conspiracy to me. you guys are trying to make it hard for soccer fans to watch games (in English). I have been paying for fubotv for over a year now and still wont be able to watch key games in English language. LIVE is not an option for 99% of the population that is at work at 1pm on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. You are trying for sports fans to switch to football/baseball/basketball/hockey because of the frequent commercial breaks money!!! this has always been an issue with soccer in US. You have brainwashed people for years into watching games with frequent commercial breaks. no wonder 70% of the us population is overweight – if one can play ‘sports’ without physical fitness (football – run 30s / rest 2min) baseball (run 10s / rest 5min).
The brainwashing about football has crossed my mind a lot. It’s the perfect vehicle for advertisements. When I was younger didn’t care for football all that much (was a basketball and hockey fan), but slowly bought into the hype and became a huge fan….less so these days as I cannot stand the commercials anymore.
WOW OMG you guys solved this! Wow my head is spinning with this new information you laid out……..I bet Soros and the Koch brothers and the tri lateral commission are all involved also! Can’t believe you put this together, we need to a leader that will put in place an edict that Soccer is on free TV 24/7! Lets get some great soccer minds like Grant Wahl and Kartik and whoever else to put a strategy together where we march on Washington.
Good job Bleacher Report! You’re an absolute joke, crashing in the middle of a match day!?!?!?!?
Three cheers for Univision and its affiliated channels (Univision Deportes, UniMas & Galavision)!
They are showing FIVE live Champions League games per matchday. Unlike puny TNT, which is showing only one. Buy the way, it’s not that TNT is giving them permission to show all those games. Univision, which is as powerful a company as Turner’s outfit, signed a separate contract with UEFA.
Hi
I don’t speak Spanish but I have no choice but to get the 4 following spanish channels ( Univision Deportes, UniMas, Univision & Galavision)!
I can’t miss the champion’s league (Go PSG!!!)
I don’t want any streaming services, I want it on my TV. I currently have dish network and the contract with these 4 spanish channels wasn’t renewed.
Which cable company carries these channels? Does directv do?
Thanks
Pat
Hi Patrick, yes, all 4 channels are available on DIRECTV. More info can be found here: http://worldsoccertalk.com/soccer-channels-directv/
Thxs so much!
Pat
Looking at getting B/R live but a little confused.
1) Will B/R show full champion’s league games?
2) Will they have the games recorded for later viewing as I have to work during the day?
3) Finally if they show the games recorded will they hide the scores?
Thxs
Pat
At this point wouldn’t bother with B/R Live if I were you. Now that it’s in the knockout stage and only two matches a day should be covered. If they carry over the practice of 1pm and 3pm windows in the knockouts as they had in the group stage then all matches will be shown on TNT anyway.
During the rest of the Champions League, you’ll need B/R Live more than ever.
TNT will only show one game per Champions League matchday on television, which means that the other game that day won’t be televised in English-language.
Thxs so much. I m getting B/R live in a month when the CL resumes.
Pat
Why did someone give him a thumb down? Why not explain your view instead.
Pat
Well if true, that certainly isn’t good. In that case as he’s still better off utilizing Univision rather than the expensive and unreliable B/R Live.
That makes sense, thxs a lot
Patrick, to answer your questions:
1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) There’s a ‘no spoiler’ option so you can make sure scores are hidden.
UEFA made a huge mistake doing any business with Turner Sports. We need to tell UEFA how we feel. The viewers in the USA need to flood their offices with emails, letters, whatever. If you’re on vacation in Europe, take a train to UEFA’s headquarters in Switzerland I believe it is and tell them how you feel. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying any of this is easy but we can’t just sit around and do nothing. Have you guys seen the B/R website, It’s from the dark ages. UEFA made a deal with the Devil but it can overcome this tragedy. Don’t bother contacting the idiots at Turner, they’re sleeping on their bleachers, go straight to the source.
Azer,
Why would UEFA have cancelled probably very lucrative contract with Turner Sports? Because of poor studio hosts and analysts, because poor streaming quality on B/R platform, because of less games on “real” TV? Like any other corporation in modern capitalism they care only and only about money.
Chris,
Do you have the final numbers in bidding process for UCL TV/streaming rights in the USA?
Josesa,
You are correct but something needs to be done, this cannot continue. Turner Sports is beyond terrible. No UCL games on it’s other channels like TBS or TruTv. No Europa League at all except the Final. We’re going back to the 1990’s when there was only 1 UCL game shown per matchday on ESPN with Derek Rae & Tommy Smyth doing commentary.
Until 2021
Next tv deal put TNT, TBS, Trutv
Turners money is as green as everyone else . It is just they paid more 60 million a season for the rights to the Champions League & Europa League for the next 3 seasons . Their coverage on TNT sucks and prices on B/R Live is outrageous for the sub standard performance they produce . They are certainly are not making money on that as the technical staff they have to attend streaming problems is just non – existenced . A total waste of resources which they will learn as time goes on
I canceled B/R Live in November. The app is terrible and website is not much better. When the deal for UEFA was announced, I installed the app, saw how bad it was, and assumed they would have a nice new app launching to coincide with day one matches. After seeing what an undertaking it was just to add the spoiler-free option, I had enough. At least with Fox, I logged in and saw nothing but soccer. With B/R Live, you cannot get rid of basketball, golf, and whatever else they’re pushing. I realize UEFA only cares about money, but B/R is embarrassingly bad. For now, I’ll watch TNT on YTTV. If they do not televise LFC v Bayern, I can listen to live audio on LFCTV (subscription) and watch the match the next day. It’s funny to think I miss Fox.
Not interested in TNT/Turner broadcasts. Watching only on the Spanish channels or by other means if the game I want to catch is not available.
Same position about ESPN Plus and the NBC Gold. I already pay for cable/DirecTV. Not paying the greedy corps an extra dime, sorry. Enough is enough at some point.
We are in California, which channel are the games going to be on?
Games will be shown across the following TV channels – TNT, Univision, UniMas, TUDN and Galavision.
Stay up to date with our Champions League TV schedule, which is updated weekly at http://www.worldsoccertalk.com/champions-league-tv-schedule