BBC and Sky ‘closing in on one-year WSL rights renewals’

English soccer’s top-tier Women’s Super League (WSL) competition will continue to be aired domestically in the upcoming 2024-25 campaign by its current media rights partners, the BBC and Sky, it has been reported.

The public-service BBC, and pay-TV heavyweight Sky, are close to striking one-year extensions to their present WSL coverage deals, which expire at the end of the ongoing 2023-24 campaign (having kicked off in 2021), the Daily Telegraph publication has reported.

The Telegraph has said that this move has come as a short-term solution in order to give the league’s organizers, and interested broadcasters, more time to arrange a longer-term set of deals from 2025-26 onwards. Sportscal