SPFL’S new TV deal goes worldwide

Scottish football will be screened in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and North Africa after a new broadcast deal was signed.

The Scottish Professional Football League has announced a TV deal with bein Sports which will cover 24 countries and run until June 2020.

Countries covered by the new deal include Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Yemen and Syria.

The deal comes about six weeks after the SPFL terminated its previous overseas broadcast agreement after media rights company MP & Silva defaulted on payments amid financial difficulties. A new deal was signed with Infront agency on 31 August.

SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said: “The termination of our previous agreement has opened up the possibility for us to make SPFL football available in new territories around the world, as this agreement with bein Sports demonstrates.”