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For the 2016–17 season, BT Sport acquired rights to the Saturday evening Premier League matches and BT Sport decided to launch a new Saturday afternoon schedule. As part of this new line-up, BT Sport decided to launch a football scores service. The programme was launched on 13 August 2016.
For the 2016–17 season, BT Sport premiered the studio programme BT Sport Score, which airs on Saturday matchdays and competes primarily with Sky's Soccer Saturday. [68] BT Sport has held rights to the National League since 2013, which were most recently renewed in 2020; BT Sport carries a weekly match on Saturdays, and the weekly National League highlights show. [69]
23 August – BT Sport announces that it has won the rights for Australia's home matches for five years starting in the 2016-17 season. This means that BT would show The Ashes series between England and Australia in 2017-18 with the deal also including the Big Bash League , the Women's Ashes and the Women's Big Bash League .
The new format also allowed the SPFL to reintroduce the two-weekend winter break in January. Along with the newly designed tournament, a new television deal for it was announced as BT Sport took over rights from BBC Scotland. In February 2016 the SPFL announced the League Cup final would be moved to November. History
West Bromwich Albion's fourth-round match against Liverpool at Anfield was moved to a Saturday night slot for live screening on BT Sport. It became the first official game in the club's history to use a video assistant referee . [89]
The 2015–16 FA Vase Final was the 42nd final of the Football Association 's cup competition for teams at levels 9–11 of the English football league system. The match was contested between Hereford F.C. of the Midland Football League Premier Division (level 9) and Morpeth Town AFC of the Northern Football League Division One (level 9).
For the 2014–15 season the programme moved from Sky Sports 1 to Sky Sports 5 but reverted to Sky Sports 1 for the 2016–17 season. Format [ edit ] Soccer Saturday is broadcast from 12:00 on Sky Sports News and usually airs for six hours.
London Irish had been promoted as champions from the 2016–17 RFU Championship at the first attempt. The competition was broadcast by BT Sport for the fifth successive season and with five games also simulcast free-to-air on Channel 5 for the first time. Highlights of each weekend's games were shown on Channel 5 with extended highlights on BT ...