Netflix Wins Exclusive 2030 World Cup Rights for Spain and Andorra

Netflix has secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the 2030 World Cup in Spain and Andorra, the company announced on Tuesday. The deal covers all one hundred and four matches of the tournament, which Spain will co-host with Portugal and Morocco.

Under the agreement, one match per matchday will be free to watch in Spain. A national free-to-air channel will also broadcast a package of matches that includes every Spain game, both semi-finals and the final. Netflix has not named the free-to-air channel, and financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

It will be Netflix's first broadcast of a major men's international tournament in Spain, where the 2026 World Cup was aired by the national channel TVE. The agreement adds to the streaming service's growing football portfolio, which already includes the rights in the United States and Canada for the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil and the 2031 edition.

The deal is further evidence of Netflix's push into live sport, which has expanded to include American football, baseball, wrestling, boxing and mixed martial arts. For FIFA, it deepens a partnership with the streamer ahead of a centenary tournament that will also stage opening matches in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, where the first World Cup was held in 1930.

From the October 14 episode of The Football Briefing Room.