Quick answer: UK sports streaming in 2026
- Cheapest Premier League
- £36
- NOW Sky Sports, monthly
- Champions League
- £30.99
- discovery+ Premium (TNT)
- Boxing & NFL
- ~£10
- DAZN Super Saver, annual
- LaLiga & Serie A
- £15.99
- Premier Sports, monthly
- TV Licence fee
- £174.50
- per year, from April 2026
UK sports streaming services at a glance
The UK sports streaming market is split between three paid giants (Sky Sports, TNT Sports, DAZN), one specialist for European football (Premier Sports) and a strong free-to-air offer protected by Ofcom's listed events rules. The table below summarises the cheapest entry point, contract length and rights for each service, before we go into each one in detail.
Bundling through Sky Stream, Virgin Media TV or EE TV is almost always cheaper than subscribing to each service separately once you watch more than one sport. If flexibility matters more than price, stacking NOW Sky Sports and discovery+ Premium on rolling monthly contracts lets you cancel for the summer.
| Service | Cheapest route | From / month | Contract | Main sports |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sky Sports | Sky TV contract | £33 | 18 months | Premier League (215 live matches), F1, EFL, England cricket, golf, darts |
| NOW Sky Sports | NOW Membership | £36 | Rolling monthly | Every Sky Sports channel, including Premier League and F1 |
| TNT Sports | discovery+ Premium | £30.99 | Rolling monthly | UEFA Champions, Europa, Conference Leagues, Premiership Rugby, MotoGP, UFC, 52 Premier League matches |
| DAZN | Super Saver annual | £10 | 12-month upfront (£119.99) | Matchroom and Queensberry boxing, NFL Game Pass International, WSL, Women's Champions League |
| Premier Sports | Direct subscription | £15.99 | Rolling monthly | LaLiga, Serie A, Bundesliga, SPFL, Ligue 1, NHL, WWE |
| BBC iPlayer & ITVX | TV Licence (£174.50/yr) | Free* | TV Licence required | Six Nations, Wimbledon, FA Cup final, Grand National, Olympics, World Cup, Euros |
Indicative prices in June 2026. Promotional offers and bundle discounts may reduce these rates. *Free-to-air requires a TV Licence to watch live broadcasts or BBC iPlayer.
Sky Sports: the Premier League and F1 anchor
Sky Sports is the broadest sports broadcaster in the UK. It holds the largest Premier League package (215 live matches per season under the 2025/26 to 2028/29 cycle), every Formula 1 race through 2029, the majority of EFL fixtures, England home Test cricket, The Open, the Masters, PDC darts and Ryder Cup golf. If you only pick one sports service, Sky Sports covers the widest range.
There are three practical ways to subscribe: a traditional Sky TV contract with Sky Sports added (from £33/month on an 18-month deal), a Sky Stream contract (same content over the internet, shorter commitment options), or a NOW Sky Sports Membership with no contract at all (£36/month). Stream comes with the Sky Glass or Stream puck, while NOW works on most smart TVs, Fire Stick, Roku, consoles and mobile devices.
Sky Go, included with any Sky TV subscription, lets you stream on up to four devices. NOW caps simultaneous streams at three and, on the base plan, streams at 720p rather than full HD unless you add the Boost pack at £6 per month for 1080p and 5.1 audio.
Best for
Premier League regulars, F1 fans, and anyone who watches multiple Sky-rights sports. NOW Sky Sports if you want to cancel between seasons; a Sky TV or Stream contract if you watch year-round and want the lower headline price.
TNT Sports: Champions League, rugby and UFC
TNT Sports replaced BT Sport in July 2023 following the Warner Bros. Discovery and BT joint venture. It holds exclusive UK rights to every UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League match through to the end of the 2026/27 season, including all finals, plus Gallagher Premiership Rugby, the United Rugby Championship, MotoGP, the UFC and 52 Premier League fixtures per season.
The cheapest standalone route is discovery+ Premium at £30.99 per month, on a rolling contract. Existing Sky, Virgin Media, EE TV and BT Broadband customers can add TNT Sports directly to their bundle, often with a 6 or 12-month introductory discount. The discovery+ Premium subscription also unlocks Eurosport, so French Open tennis, Tour de France and the Winter Olympics come bundled at no extra cost.
TNT Sports Box Office handles selected pay-per-view boxing events when DAZN does not have the rights. For anyone following European football there is no alternative: every knock-out stage Champions League match, including the final, is behind the TNT Sports paywall.
Best for
Champions League nights, club rugby supporters and UFC fans. The Eurosport bundle makes it good value if you also follow tennis or cycling.
NOW: the no-contract route to Sky Sports
NOW (formerly NOW TV) is Sky's contract-free streaming service and the cheapest legal way to watch Sky Sports without committing for 18 or 24 months. A Sky Sports Membership costs £36 per month on a rolling basis and unlocks all eleven Sky Sports channels, including Premier League, Main Event, F1, Cricket, Golf and Football.
NOW also sells a Day Membership at £15, valid for 24 hours, ideal for a single F1 race weekend, a boxing undercard, the Masters Sunday or a one-off Premier League match. There is no weekly pass since the 2022 refresh, so frequent viewers are always better off on the monthly membership.
The main compromise on NOW is picture quality: the base membership streams at 720p with limited 5.1 audio. 1080p full HD plus surround sound requires the Boost add-on at £6 per month. You can watch on up to three devices simultaneously, which is generous compared with most rival services.
NOW memberships auto-renew each month. Cancel in your account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date to avoid being charged for the next period. The Day Membership does not auto-renew.
DAZN: boxing, NFL and women's football
DAZN has become the default home of UK boxing and American football. It holds the exclusive UK streaming rights to Matchroom and Queensberry boxing cards, including Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury bouts, and remains the only place to buy NFL Game Pass International in the UK since the NFL moved its direct-to-consumer service into DAZN in 2023. DAZN also streams the Women's Super League, the Women's Champions League (the latter free on its YouTube channel) and selected darts events.
The pricing structure changed in 2024 and now sits at three tiers:
- Super Saver: £119.99 upfront for 12 months (around £10/month equivalent), one device at a time;
- Flexible: £19.99 per month, rolling, cancel any month;
- Premium: £24.99 per month, includes 4K boxing and two concurrent screens.
NFL Game Pass Pro is sold separately inside the DAZN app at around £175.99 per season, with every regular-season and playoff game live. There is no pay-per-view surcharge for Matchroom or Queensberry cards: they are included in any DAZN subscription. DAZN is ad-free on every tier and works on smart TVs, phones, consoles and via Chromecast.
Best for
Boxing and NFL fans. The Super Saver annual plan is the cheapest serious sports subscription in the UK if you can commit for a year.
Premier Sports: LaLiga, Serie A and Scottish football
Premier Sports is the UK home for LaLiga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, the SPFL (Scottish Premiership) and Ligue 1 highlights. It also carries the NHL, selected cricket (including New Zealand home Tests), WWE and darts. It is the cheapest specialist service at £15.99 per month on a rolling basis, with an annual plan at £149.99 (around £12.50/month).
Premier Sports is available as an app on Sky Q, Sky Stream, Virgin Media, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and directly via premiersports.com. It is the only affordable way to watch a full Spanish, Italian, German or Scottish league season in the UK. Anyone following a non-English top-division team should start here before paying for anything else.
Best for
European football fans whose team is not in the Premier League. SPFL viewers outside Scotland. NHL fans.
Free live sport on BBC iPlayer and ITVX
A surprising amount of top-tier sport is still free-to-air in the UK thanks to Ofcom's listed events regulations. BBC iPlayer and ITVX between them cover Wimbledon, the FA Cup final, the Six Nations, the Grand National, the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, the Rugby World Cup final and the Commonwealth Games live, at no extra cost beyond the TV Licence.
Channel 4 adds Formula 1 highlights, live Women's Six Nations fixtures and selected England cricket highlights. S4C covers Welsh-language rugby. For a breakdown of everything you can watch without a subscription, see our dedicated guide to the best UK free streaming services.
Watching or recording live TV in the UK, including BBC iPlayer, requires a valid TV Licence. The annual fee rose to £174.50 on 1 April 2026 (tvlicensing.co.uk).
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Bundle tip: if you take Sky Sports AND TNT Sports, the Sky Stream Whole Home Sports bundle packages them for around £58 per month. That saves you about £/month over standalone NOW + discovery+, but locks you in for 18 months.
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Cheapest ways to bundle multiple sports in 2026
Subscribing to Sky Sports, TNT Sports and DAZN separately at full price costs over £80 per month. You can cut that bill significantly by bundling through a single provider. The best value routes in 2026 are:
- Sky Stream Whole Home Sports: Sky Sports and TNT Sports together from about £58 per month over 18 months, including Netflix on Sky Glass devices;
- Virgin Media Mega Volt bundle: Sky Sports, TNT Sports, gigabit broadband and a phone line in one bill, usually the cheapest dual-sport option if you also need fast broadband;
- EE TV Big Entertainment: Sky Sports add-on plus broadband, with no upfront fee for existing EE Mobile customers;
- NOW + discovery+ stacked on rolling monthly contracts: around £67 per month with no lock-in, perfect if you want to cancel between seasons.
If flexibility matters more than price, the rolling NOW + discovery+ route is roughly £10 to £15 more than a long contract, but you can cancel at the end of the football season and save for the rest of the year.
Advantages
- NOW + discovery+: no contract, cancel any month
- Sky Stream Whole Home: best picture quality, single remote and app
- Virgin Media Mega Volt: Sky Sports, TNT Sports and gigabit broadband in one bill
- DAZN Super Saver: boxing and women's football for around £10 per month on an annual plan
Disadvantages
- Sky Stream Whole Home locks you in for 18 months
- TNT Sports and Sky Sports combined still miss LaLiga and Serie A (Premier Sports)
- NOW base plan streams at 720p without the £6 Boost add-on
- No single service covers every major sport
Watching UK sport from abroad
Sky Go, NOW, TNT Sports and DAZN all geo-restrict their streams to the UK. If you travel within the EU, EU portability rules still allow Sky Go and NOW subscribers to access their account temporarily from another member state for up to a few weeks. Outside the EU, you will be blocked unless you use a VPN set to a UK server. A VPN typically breaches each service's terms of use, so check before relying on it for paid streams.
A safer legal alternative when abroad is to subscribe to a local broadcaster that holds the same rights (for example, beIN Sports in France for Premier League, or ESPN+ in the United States for selected matches). Free-to-air fixtures on BBC iPlayer are the most restrictive: access is limited to viewers physically in the UK, with no EU portability outside the trial Premier Sports app exceptions.
Sport streaming FAQ
Get the right broadband for live HD and 4K sport
Most live HD sport streams need a stable 25 Mbps connection and 4K football on Sky Stream or TNT Sports needs roughly 50 Mbps. If two people in the home watch different streams at once, double those numbers. If your speeds are borderline, upgrading your broadband is usually a cheaper monthly fix than dropping picture quality.
Selectra's UK broadband team compares Sky, BT, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Vodafone and full-fibre challengers like Community Fibre and Hyperoptic against your postcode, the sports services you want and the number of simultaneous streams in your home.
Call our UK advisers on 020 3936 0059 for a free 5-minute check of the broadband and sports bundles that fit your address.