Wsl To Establish Regular Sunday Noon Slot Next Season For Live Games On Sky Sports

Sky Sports is intending to schedule nan mostly of its unrecorded Women’s Super League matches astatine noon connected Sundays successful nan caller season, nan Guardian understands, arsenic nan section seeks to found a caller regular slot.

The fixtures for nan 2025-26 WSL and WSL 2 campaigns will beryllium released connected Friday and, though nan broadcast pickswill not beryllium made until a later date, according to sources nan previous, regular 6.45pm UK clip slot connected Sunday evenings will beryllium ditched, aft extended feedback from fans and clubs, successful favour of lunchtime games instead.

It is besides understood location is simply a desire to proceedings much Friday nighttime kick-offs regularly passim nan campaign, arsenic nan broadcaster and nan league’s operators, WSL Football, and nan personnel clubs effort to trial and study what slots activity champion to maximise some in-person attendances and tv audiences simultaneously. The astir communal slot, however, will beryllium Sunday midday aft wide consultations.

The convention will besides beryllium hoping to capitalise connected a boost successful liking successful nan women’s crippled aft nan England team’s run to their 3rd consecutive awesome tourney final, successful which nan Lionesses will meet nan world champions, Spain, successful Basel connected Sunday.

The caller WSL run will beryllium nan first of a new, five-year broadcast deal shared betwixt Sky Sports and nan BBC, which was agreed past October, but it is understood Sky will beryllium showing 90% of nan unrecorded matches. The worth of nan woody is undisclosed but nan Guardian reported past autumn that nan authorities interest is worthy astir £65m crossed nan long of nan 5 seasons, positive accumulation costs, taking nan broadcasters’ full finance successful nan women’s crippled to comfortably complete £100m.

Traditionally, nan mostly of WSL matches person been scheduled for 2pm connected Sunday afternoons but location is believed to beryllium a desire to move astir unrecorded games to midday to create a regular slot and create an “around nan grounds” communicative during matches, akin to nan consciousness of a Saturday 3pm fixture database successful English men’s football.

On Thursday, WSL Football confirmed a proceedings that allows fans to portion intoxicant while successful nan stands is being expanded to see 14 WSL and WSL 2 clubs from nan caller season, including each of nan top-flight’s “big four” teams. That follows a four-club proceedings that began successful nan 2nd half of past season, enabling fans to portion from nan stands astatine nan second-tier clubs Birmingham City, Bristol City, Newcastle United and Southampton, successful which 19 convention fixtures were included. No information incidents were reported from immoderate of those games. A consequent instrumentality study recovered that 66% were successful support of nan proceedings being permanently implemented, nan convention has said.