Fans face £1,190 cost to watch Premier League games as IPTV crackdown continues
Fans will have to fork out a four-figure sum if they want to watch every Premier League game shown in the UK this season.
Two hundred of the 380 fixtures are set to be broadcast live in the UK - by Sky Sports, TNT Sports, Amazon Prime - and full price subscriptions for all three will set supporters back £1,200.
Sky will show 128 games, TNT have the rights for 52 fixtures and Amazon Prime are broadcasting two rounds of fixtures in December including the Boxing Day matches.
Sky packages without TNT can cost up to £576 a year, or £48 per month, although they also offer a package that includes TNT for £876, or £73 per month.
Otherwise access to TNT, which has replaced BT Sport, will set fans back £29.99 per month, or £359.88 a year. Amazon Prime is no £8.99 per month, or discounted at £95 for a one-off 12-month deal, though that includes additional services from the corporate behemoth such as free delivery.
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That is before factoring in the £159 cost of a TV licence - bringing the cost to between £1,130 and £1,190. New customers would also be required to pay installation fees.
And fans looking to watch the action from other leagues face additional charges. Viaplay is planning to withdraw from the UK but still holds the rights to Spain’s La Liga and Portugal’s Primeira Liga. A monthly pass costs £14.99.
DAZN has exclusive rights to the Saudi Pro League, plus Women’s Champions League, and costs £19.99 if paying monthly but £120 for a year subscription.
Authorities continue to clamp down on illegal streaming services following the proliferation of IPTV apps that are available on Amazon Firesticks. Some annual passes cost just £50 for access to every single match, with Firesticks available to purchase from £26.99.
In May five men were jailed for a total of more than 30 years for selling cheap subscriptions to tens of thousands of customers that also included access to a library of recently-released films and live access to TV stations typically unavailable in the UK.
“The sentences handed down, which are the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes, vindicate the efforts made to bring these individuals to justice and reflect the severity and extent of the crimes,” the Premier League’s lawyer Kevin Plumb said.
More Premier League fixtures are set to be broadcast on TV in the UK in the 2024/25 season (Getty Images)“The Premier League’s substantial financial contribution to the entire football pyramid is made possible through the ability to sell our broadcast rights.
"We are pleased that through rulings such as this, the courts continue to show that they recognise the importance of safeguarding the Premier League’s rights,” added Plumb.
In January police said they had identified customers from a huge database in a major ongoing criminal investigation and would knock on the doors of people warning they could also face prosecution.
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