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February 2019

Verizon Adds Concacaf Rights to Yahoo Sports App

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Yahoo has secured the rights to stream the 2019 Concacaf Champions League football matches through its Yahoo Sports app and other digital platforms.

The deal is an extension of an agreement reached last year between Concacaf, the football federation of North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and Yahoo’s parent company, Verizon, the telecommunications network American.

The Verizon partnership already includes exclusive rights in English to distribute several Concacaf tournaments in the United States, including the Concacaf Champions League, as well as distribution rights to digital and mobile devices in Canada, Mexico and In the Caribbean.

Yahoo Sports, which also owns the distribution rights for other international and domestic club competitions including Major League Soccer (MLS), UEFA Champions League and Premier League, will broadcast the Concacaf competition through its iOS and Google Play platforms, as well as YahooSports. .com.

Its coverage begins with the first round of the competition on February 19 and will continue throughout the tournament, including the quarter-final matches in March and the semi-final matches and the final in April.

Elsewhere, fans will also be able to follow the competition through Univision Deportes in the United States, Fox Sports in Mexico and Central America, while Flow Sports also holds the distribution rights in the Caribbean.

Yahoo has secured the rights to stream the 2019 Concacaf Champions League football matches through its Yahoo Sports app and other digital platforms.

The deal is an extension of an agreement reached last year between Concacaf, the football federation of North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and Yahoo’s parent company, Verizon, the telecommunications network American.

The Verizon partnership already includes exclusive rights in English to distribute several Concacaf tournaments in the United States, including the Concacaf Champions League, as well as distribution rights to digital and mobile devices in Canada, Mexico and In the Caribbean.

Yahoo Sports, which also owns the distribution rights for other international and domestic club competitions including Major League Soccer (MLS), UEFA Champions League and Premier League, will broadcast the Concacaf competition through its iOS and Google Play platforms, as well as YahooSports. .com.

Its coverage begins with the first round of the competition on February 19 and will continue throughout the tournament, including the quarter-final matches in March and the semi-final matches and the final in April.

Elsewhere, fans will also be able to follow the competition through Univision Deportes in the United States, Fox Sports in Mexico and Central America, while Flow Sports also holds the distribution rights in the Caribbean.