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“ABEMA” decides to broadcast all 51 games of “UEFA EURO 2024(TM)” free of charge for the first time in Japanese history
~ Free distribution of all games with breaking news digests, free live broadcast of selected games with Japanese commentary and commentary ~ ……
The new future TV “ABEMA” is pleased to announce that it has been decided to broadcast all 51 games live for free at “UEFA EURO 2024(TM)” for the first time in Japan’s history.
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ABEMA will provide free live broadcasts of all 64 games of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, as well as live broadcasts of the world’s top soccer matches, including matches against the Japanese national team, the Premier League, and the Bundesliga. Furthermore, from Friday, February 23, 2024, “La Liga” and “Ligue 1” will be available on “ABEMA de DAZN” where you can watch content from the sports channel “DAZN” in collaboration with DAZN. We have also expanded our European soccer content, including Serie A and national team matches.
“UEFA EURO 2024(TM)”, which will be broadcast live for free on “ABEMA” for all 51 games, is a European championship tournament for national teams sponsored by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and is similar to the “FIFA World Cup”. It is also known as the second-best soccer tournament in the world. According to an
announcement by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the previous tournament, UEFA EURO 2020(TM), was watched by over 5 billion viewers, with 328 million people watching the event at Wembley Stadium, the sacred place for soccer. The festival attracts the attention of soccer fans from all over the world as the biggest festival of European soccer, which takes place once every four years, including watching the final between England and Italy. This tournament is scheduled to be held from Saturday, June 15, 2024, Japan time to Monday, July 15, 2024. The 24 participating teams, including the host country Germany, have been officially decided, including Germany and Spain, which boast the most UEFA EURO wins, as well as defending UEFA EURO 2020(TM) champion Italy and FIFA World Cup champions. The world’s strongest countries, including France, the runner-up of “Qatar 2022”, will engage in fierce battles from the group stage.
This time, for the first time in Japan’s history, you can watch all 51 games from the group stage to the finals for free on ABEMA. In addition, in addition to breaking news digest videos summarizing famous scenes from each match and missed videos of full matches, we will provide free distribution of all matches, as well as carefully selected matches with “ABEMA” original Japanese live commentary and commentary. (Of the 51 games, 15 games will be broadcast live with ABEMA’s original Japanese commentary and commentary, and the other 36 games will be broadcast live with local English commentary.) European leagues such as the Premier League and Bundesliga, and world Be sure to watch “UEFA EURO 2024(TM)”, where players from each country’s league compete for their country’s prestige, on “ABEMA”.
ABEMA allows you to watch sports on a variety of devices, such as smartphones, PCs, tablets, and Nintendo Switch, regardless of your location, to suit your lifestyle, as well as enjoy realistic matches on a large TV screen. You can taste it. In addition to enjoying sports broadcasts with high-quality and stable video, you can watch from the beginning even if you are in the middle of the match with “Chase Play”, and if you can’t watch the match in real time, you can watch it as many times as you like with “Missed Broadcast”. possible to see. Furthermore, you can enjoy a new sports viewing experience comfortably and freely through ABEMA, including the “My List” function, which allows you to add content you want to watch and receive notifications about program information.
Since its opening in April 2016, ABEMA has broadcast live sports in a wide range of genres, including Major League Baseball (MLB), sumo, K-1, and professional wrestling. At the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which was held in 2022, all 64 games were broadcast live for free, delivering a sports viewing experience that can only be enjoyed by ABEMA through stable, high-quality video distribution.
As the new future TV “ABEMA”, we will continue to expand our attractive sports content and contribute to the further development of the sports industry by delivering the appeal of domestic and international sports to people in Japan by providing new sports viewing experiences. We will continue to contribute.
*This is the first time in Japanese history that all of the current number of UEFA EURO games (51 games in total) will be broadcast live for free.
ABEMA “UEFA EURO 2024(TM)”
URL: https://abema.tv/video/genre/sports/soccer/uefaeuro2024 *The content to be distributed and the distribution date and time are subject to change without notice.
*When using images, please credit [(C) AbemaTV, Inc.].
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