FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association and international soccer’s highest governing body, is getting into the streaming world.
The organisation has launched FIFA+, a new digital platform with plans to stream the equivalent of 40,000 live games per year (including 11,000 women’s matches) from 100 FIFA member associations by the end of 2022.
Live coverage will range from Europe’s topflight leagues to previously unserved competitions from around the world. At launch around 1,400 matches will be live-streamed monthly with that number to rise shortly after.
The platform also aims to be home to every World Cup match ever recorded with more than 2,000 hours of archive content and more than 2,500 videos dating back to the 1950s with more to be added.
There will also be a slate of originals featuring full-length documentaries, docuseries, talk shows and shorts, localized into eleven languages.
One key distinction however, Variety reports that the service will NOT stream the upcoming Qatar World Cup games live this November and there are no plans to have premium World Cup live rights on the platform in the near future.
The platform, currently free and operating on an AVOD model, is available globally across all web and mobile devices with a range of connected devices to be available soon.
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Introducing #FIFAPlus: your new home for football ✨
Watch or stream for free thousands of live matches per month, stories from your favourite footballers, and the biggest archive of World Cup matches https://t.co/EO11dasOum pic.twitter.com/h4vm0z3PqJ
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) April 12, 2022
Source: Fifa.com
