The FA & TNT Sports agree new four-year deal to broadcast the FA Cup from 2025-26
• Selected matches will be live on TNT Sports and on free-to-air from the first round to the final
• New deal will see more Emirates FA Cup ties broadcast than ever
before, with every game from the third round outside of 3pm kick offs to
be shown live
• Further details of the free-to-air broadcaster will be confirmed in due course.
• The Emirates FA Cup final will be available on TNT Sports and free-to-air.
• The deal enables The FA to provide valuable investment into grassroots football
The Football Association [The FA] and TNT Sports have agreed a new four-year broadcast deal for the Emirates FA Cup, starting from the 2025/26 season, which will see more games available than ever before, across both TNT Sports and free-to-air, from the world’s oldest national football competition.
The new partnership between The FA and Warner Bros. Discovery, which operates TNT Sports, will ensure that the world’s longest-running national knockout football competition continues to be as broadly available as possible across the UK.
TNT Sports will showcase live matches from the first round, with every game from the third round outside of 3pm kick offs on display through to the final at Wembley Stadium connected by EE.
Selected matches from every round will be available free-to-air, and highlights of every game will be made available. Further details of the free-to-air broadcaster will be confirmed in due course.
In addition to the Emirates FA Cup ties, TNT Sports will also broadcast the English football season’s traditional curtain raiser, the FA Community Shield, and the FA Youth Cup semi-finals and final. They join the Vanarama National League, which TNT Sports also has the rights to in a long-standing commitment.
The Emirates FA Cup captures the imagination of clubs, communities, and the general public each season, with unrivalled stories written into English football folklore, and all of them will be told across TNT Sports’ channels on EE TV, Sky and Virgin Media, as well as on its streaming platform discovery+.