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February
2015
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16:29
Europe/London

BT Sport extends exclusively live Serie A football deal until 2018

Summary

BT Sport today announces that it has extended its deal with MP and Silva for exclusively live Italian top flight football until 2017/18. The channels are the current home of exclusively live Serie A in the UK and BT Sport has signed a contract to add another three years to the current deal. BT Sport will have the rights to show up to 380 exclusively live matches a season.

BT Sport today announces that it has extended its deal with MP and Silva for exclusively live Italian top flight football until 2017/18. 

The channels are the current home of exclusively live Serie A in the UK and BT Sport has signed a contract to add another three years to the current deal. BT Sport will have the rights to show up to 380 exclusively live matches a season. 

Italian football fans can continue to enjoy watching clubs such as AC Roma and AC Milan attempting to wrestle the league title from current champions Juventus on BT Sport. This season, AS Roma and their legendary frontman Francesco Totti are chasing Juventus

From August 2015, BT Sport will offer exclusively live midweek, top flight football action from the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. 

Simon Green, head of BT Sport, said: "Serie A attracts some of the best players in the world and is a fantastic, competitive league featuring some of the legendary teams of European folklore, such as Juventus, AC Milan, Inter and Roma."