Netflix is doubling down on stay sport by inking a landmark deal to stream the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup.
The streaming service has scored U.S. rights to the 2027 and 2031 installments of the soccer event. It’s the first time Netflix has purchased up a sports activities competitors in full.
Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria stated: “Bringing this iconic event to Netflix isn’t nearly streaming matches, it’s additionally about celebrating the gamers, the tradition and the eagerness driving the worldwide rise of girls’s sport.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino added: “Netflix has proven a really robust stage of dedication to rising ladies’s soccer. This settlement sends a powerful message about the true worth of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup and the worldwide ladies’s recreation.”
Netflix will assist the stay protection of each recreation with unique documentary collection, spotlighting the world’s prime gamers, their journeys, and the worldwide progress of girls’s soccer.
The 2027 World Cup takes place in Brazil after final 12 months’s event in Australia and New Zealand. Spain gained the competitors whereas USA had been knocked out by Sweden within the spherical of 16.
