With the unfortunate way of the world rite now due to Covid19, coupled, with the fact that live streaming websites such as Youtube & Amazon Prime are already challenging the established live football on tv providers such as Sky Sport & BT Sport, the volume of live football games that will be shown live on tv or streaming channels in 2020/21 is going to be unprecedented.

It’s not great news for the millions of loyal foot soldiers who follow their favourite football teams to stadiums located in every corner of the UK every other week. We are all one and the same so sincerely, hats off to you all. Let’s brace ourselves for hard times ahead as we anticipate 10s of thousands of stadium turnstiles rusting up and keeping fans out.

That being said, it’s great news for armchair football fans. That’s exactly what most of us will be this season, armchair footy fans! 

So on that note, if there is a live football game showing live on UK TV, we here at Blooter It have you covered! Kick off times, stadiums, channels, match previews, head to head analysis, live score updates and commentary. Follow us and make sure you never miss another match.

From all of us here at Blooter It, all the best for new season.

The popularity of football and the demand for it has resulted in more live football games on TV than ever before, especially in the United Kingdom with over 500 games being made available to watch per season. This includes football games from all over Europe, America and Australia.

The vast majority of live games are shown through the main broadcaster’s such as Sky Sports, BT, BBC, ITV Premier Sports.

In the modern era of the digital world most big clubs tend to have their own television channels to show live games plus the many live streams and highlight shows that result in nearly every game being shown. It’s now almost impossible to miss a game!

This is a breakdown of how many live games there are over the course of a season.

English Premier League – 194 live games

English Championship – 92 live games

English League One/Two – 20 live games

English League Cup (EFL) – Sky Sports will exclusively show 2 live games from the first round to the fifth. Also, both legs of the semi-finals and EFL Cup final will be shown on Sky Sports as well.

The FA Cup– The two main broadcasters for this tournament are the BBC and BT sports who will provide live coverage from the first round to the final. The BBC covers 16 live games and BT sports has a larger coverage with 24 live games.

Scottish SPFL– 128 live games

The Scottish Cup– Coverage for this cup competition is shared between BBC Scotland and Sky Sports with both showing the Scottish Cup Final and Sky Sport having the bigger coverage out of the two.

The Scottish League Cup– BT Sports is the biggest broadcaster for this cup competition and will be the only provider to show the final. The other broadcaster is BBC ALBA which will screen 16 live games, mainly the early rounds of the tournament.

Spanish La Liga– Sky Sports will show 8 live games per week over the course of a season.

In British football no match can be aired on a Saturday between 2:45 and 5:15. The reason for this is that the chairmen from smaller clubs fear fans would rather watch a bigger game that was on TV than go and see their local team play.

Football Clubs are starting their own TV channels as a way to have more control and engage with their fans. What is usually involved with these channels is live reserve and youth matches, phone-ins, re-runs of classic first team fixtures and TV interviews with stars players. These TV channels are starting to go online instead of being on a TV package deal. Football clubs will usually charge £5 per month. They are only seven teams who have their own channels throughout the UK.

The seven teams who currently have their own channel are Rangers, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Celtic.