FIFA World Cup Qualifying Matches on ESPN

The ESPN family of networks will air 39 World Cup qualifying matches beginning this Friday through next Tuesday.  Among the matches will be the U.S. men’s team match against Jamaica Friday night on ESPN.

Here is the schedule, along with network designation:

Date	Time (ET)	Match	Network(s)
Fri, Oct 11	11 a.m.	Armenia vs. Bulgaria	ESPN3
	11:30 a.m.	Lithuania vs. Latvia	ESPN3
	12 p.m.	Croatia vs. Belgium	ESPN Deportes / WatchESPN / ESPN3
	12 p.m.	Azerbaijan vs. Northern Ireland	ESPN3
	12 p.m.	Moldova vs. San Marino	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Malta vs. Czech Republic	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. Liechtenstein	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Luxembourg vs. Russia	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Netherlands vs. Hungary	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Estonia vs. Turkey	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Albania vs. Switzerland	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Andorra vs. Romania	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	Germany vs. Ireland	ESPN2 / WatchESPN
	2:45 p.m.	Greece vs. Slovakia	ESPN3
	2:45 p.m.	Slovenia vs. Norway	ESPN3
	2:45 p.m.	Iceland vs. Cyprus	ESPN3
	2:55 p.m.	France vs. Australia (Friendly Match)	ESPN3
	3:45 p.m.	Portugal vs. Israel	ESPN3
	4 p.m.	Spain vs. Belarus	ESPN Deportes / WatchESPN / ESPN3
	6 p.m.	United States vs. Jamaica	ESPN / WatchESPN
	9:15 p.m.	Mexico vs. Panama	ESPNEWS / WatchESPN
Sun, Oct 13	9 p.m.	Portland Timbers vs. Seattle Sounders	ESPN / ESPN Deportes / WatchESPN
Tue, Oct 15	1 p.m.	Israel vs. Northern Ireland	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Portugal vs. Luxembourg	ESPN Deportes / WatchESPN / ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Azerbaijan vs. Russia	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Lithuania vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina	ESPN3
	1 p.m.	Greece vs. Liechtenstein	ESPN3
	1:30 p.m.	Cyprus vs. Albania	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Switzerland vs. Slovenia	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Turkey vs. Netherlands	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Hungary vs. Andorra	ESPN3
	2 p.m.	Romania vs. Estonia	ESPN3
	2:10 p.m.	Latvia vs. Slovakia	ESPN3
	2:15 p.m.	Bulgaria vs. Czech Republic	ESPN3
	2:30 p.m.	ESPN FC FIFA World Cup Whiparound	ESPN2 / WatchESPN
	2:30 p.m.	Serbia vs. Macedonia	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	San Marino vs. Ukraine	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Montenegro vs. Moldova	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Scotland vs. Croatia	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Belgium vs. Wales	ESPN3
	3 p.m.	Spain vs. Georgia	ESPN Deportes / WatchESPN / ESPN3
	3 p.m.	France vs. Finland	ESPN3

Fox Sports Awarded Rights to Euro ’16 and ’18 European World Cup Qualifiers

Fox Sports and UEFA announced today that Fox has won the U.S. exclusive multi-media rights to the 2016 Euro Championships and the European qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup.

Fox also announced that is has agreed to sublicense half the game inventory to ESPN for carriage on its television and digital platforms.  Both ESPN and Fox Sports will be televising over 270 events for both cycles.

Fox will be the U.S. home to the 2018 World Cup.

“The journey for a country to be represented in two of the most prestigious soccer tournaments in the world is some of the most exciting soccer played each year,” said David Nathanson, Executive Vice President, FOX Soccer. “There are no two media properties better fit to showcase these matches than ESPN and FOX Sports whom already have the broadcast rights to the UEFA EURO 2016^TM and the 2018 FIFA World Cup^TM respectively. The UEFA European Qualifiers adds a new dimension of depth to our robust portfolio of soccer broadcast rights.”

“UEFA has gone to great lengths to organize these critical and competitive matches,” said Scott Guglielmino, ESPN senior vice president for programming. “We are delighted to work with UEFA and FOX to bring fans in the United States all the qualifying matches in Europe for UEFA EURO 2016^TM and the 2018 FIFA World Cup^TM.”