ITV will present subsequent 12 months’s Rugby World Cup in Australia, extending the broadcaster’s protection of the event to a tenth successive version.
All 52 matches from the occasion, which options 24 groups and a last-16 knockout spherical, will probably be proven stay.
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“That is far more than a brand new settlement with a trusted companion, it’s a assertion of intent to make sure that everybody within the UK can expertise and be impressed by one of many world’s iconic sporting occasions, its motion, drama and personalities,” stated World Rugby chief govt Alan Gilpin.
The broadcaster, a rights holder for each males’s World Cup because the 1991 version, has beforehand secured the 2026 and 2028 editions of the brand new Nations Championship, and nearly all of Six Nations fixtures as much as and together with the 2029 event
ITV will present each England males’s recreation presently scheduled till summer season 2029, whereas Scotland, Wales and Eire’s matches may even be free-to-air in the UK over the identical interval.
The Rugby World Cup opens with hosts Australia taking over Hong Kong on 1 October subsequent 12 months.
