The Bundesliga season 24/25 started on August 23, 2024. Until May 17, 2025, the 18 teams will fight for the trophy, places in the EL and CL or to avoid relegation. Will games also be broadcast on free TV? Which pay-TV broadcaster was able to secure the rights for the majority of the games? And where will the matches be shown in live stream? You can find an overview of the confusion of broadcasters and services that have the various Bundesliga games in their programs for 2024/25 here.
Bundesliga 2024/2025 live on Sky, DAZN and Sat.1
The Bundesliga 24/25 schedule reveals it: There will be 15 Bundesliga match days until the winter break on December 23, 2024 – from January 10, 2025, the 16th match day will continue until the season finale on May 17, 2025. As in the previous season, the pay-TV provider Sky and DAZN the broadcasting rights. For individual live games, the free-TV broadcaster Sat.1 Secure licenses.
In principle, the Saturday games – including the conference of the afternoon matches and the top game on Saturday evening – are broadcast exclusively by Sky At the same time, all games can be seen there in the case of an “English week” – match days on which games are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. There is the option of watching the matches in the traditional way on pay TV or in the live stream via Sky Go. Sky was able to acquire the rights for most games. Streaming providers DAZN will broadcast – as usual – the Friday evening game as well as the matches on Sunday.
The private broadcaster Sat.1 has individual Bundesliga games in its program for all football fans to watch for free. This includes the season opener, as well as two matches on the 16th and 17th matchdays, as well as the relegation and the Supercup. These games can also be watched via live stream. This is possible via ran.de.
Which channel will show which Bundesliga games in the 24/25 season? Here is a brief overview:
- Friday games: DAZN (paid streaming service)
- Saturday games: Sky (fee required, also via Sky Go)
- Sunday games: DAZN
- English weeks: Sky
- Individual games (opening game, two games on matchday 16, two games on matchday 17, relegation, Supercup): Sat.1 (free of charge, also as live stream)
Broadcast of the Bundesliga 24/25 live on free TV and free via stream
In addition to the few individual games that are Sat.1 The remaining games can only be watched live and in full length with paid subscriptions to Sky and DAZN be followed.
Summaries and highlights of these games are still available to watch for free. ARD As part of the Sportschau on Saturday evening from 6.30 p.m., summaries of the afternoon’s matches will be shown – as well as the short versions of the Sunday matches on the following evening. ZDF also has the Bundesliga in its program with summaries of all Saturday games from 11 p.m. in the current sports studio. Sport1 offers summaries of the matches from Friday and Saturday.
Digital highlight clips are also made available by the three channels mentioned on Mondays. These show all of the weekend’s matches.
- ARD: Summaries of the Saturday afternoon games on Saturday evening, summaries of the Sunday games on Sunday evening, highlight clips of all games on Monday
- ZDF: Summaries of all Saturday games on Saturday evening, highlight clips of all games on Monday
- Sport1: Summaries of Friday and Saturday games, highlight clips of all games on Monday
Bundesliga 2024/2025: Matchday broadcast times
Bundesliga match days traditionally take place on the weekend from Friday to Sunday. In exceptional cases, games are also played during the week as part of “English weeks” – namely on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Below you will find an overview of the kick-off times of the various games – the broadcast dates for the Bundesliga 24/25:
- Friday games: 8.30 p.m. (DAZN, selected games on Sat.1 and ran.de)
- Saturday games: 3.30 p.m., top game at 6.30 p.m. (Sky, Sky Go)
- Sunday games: 3.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m., 7.30 p.m. (DAZN)
- English weeks: (Sky, Sky Go)
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