Amazon Prime Video bags Republic of Ireland Nations League tie

Thursday 20 March 2025 2:37 pm

Amazon Prime Video UK is displaying the Republic of Eire’s Nations League play-off towards Bulgaria by means of its pay-per-view platform. 

The streaming service can be providing Spain’s tie with the Netherlands and Italy’s conflict with Germany, priced at £2.49 a recreation. 

The matches can be found to Prime Video subscribers and non-subscribers alike, and add to Amazon’s rising portfolio of sports activities properties.

It follows an analogous take care of Ligue 1 to indicate a choice of French top-flight matches on a pay-per-view foundation, introduced final month.

The Nations League rights have been sub-licensed from Scandinavia-based Viaplay, which in 2022 acquired all Uefa males’s internationals not involving England – together with 2026 World Cup qualifiers, Euro 2028 qualifiers, Nations League matches and friendlies – from 2024 till 2028 however exited the UK market earlier than the deal got here into impact.

The Republic of Eire face Bulgaria in a two-legged play-off, beginning tonight in Sofia, to resolve who will play within the B and C bands of the Nations League within the subsequent cycle of the competitors. The second leg is because of happen on Sunday in Dublin.

In Eire, the nationwide staff’s video games shall be broadcast by home community RTE.

The ties involving Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany are Nations League quarter-finals. France, Croatia, Portugal and Denmark make up the remainder of the draw.

Amazon Prime Video already has the UK rights to at least one Tuesday Champions League recreation per matchweek, in addition to reside UFC occasions. 

It additionally gives entry on its platform to third-party subscriptions akin to TNT Sports activities, NFL Recreation Go, Premier Sports activities and SquashTV. 

As well as, it has a variety of sports activities documentaries together with the All Or Nothing sequence on Manchester Metropolis, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur; Married to the Recreation, which follows the wives and companions of footballers; and movies on Wayne Rooney, Shane Warne, Mike Tyson and Jurgen Klopp.