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Alongside the BBC and Amazon Prime, The Overlap and That’s Football, will share live broadcasting rights, showing 20 live Friday night games.
The Overlap is a British-based YouTube channel with former players, Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott, Ian Wright, and Roy Keane and has over 1.5m subscribers.
That’s Football is the Mark Goldbridge football fan channel and has over 1.4m subscribers.
The new agreement is due to be announced today and makes the Bundesliga the first major European football league to award part of its live broadcasting rights in the United Kingdom to Youtube content creators.
This is part of an emerging trend away from traditional broadcasting models.
Importantly for fans, all games will be free-to-air apart from those on Amazon Prime.
The Bundesliga’s own YouTube channel will also be live broadcasting all Friday night games in the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga, the second tier of German football.
The Bundesliga kicks off this Friday with reigning Champions, Bayern Munich welcoming RB Leipzig to Bavaria.
You will be able to follow along to all the latest news, previews, and action right here with GGFN.
