The SportBusiness Podcast30 Sep 2025

What the Women’s Champions League deal says about Disney and non-US sport

Welcome to Inside the Deal, the podcast which gets under the hood of the most interesting deals taking place in the global sports industry.

This week, Frank Dunne, Imran Yusuf and Maria Kholodova look at the recent Disney+ deal for the rights to the Uefa Women’s Champions League and ask what it means for the relative strategies of the media company and the governing body, and look at whether the fresh round of UWCL deals confirm the upward trajectory of media rights values for women’s football.

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Host: Frank Dunne

Contributors: Imran Yusuf, Maria Kholodova

Editor: Lumi Lehmuskallio

Sources:

1 UWCL takes big stride forward with bumper European deals | SportBusiness Media

2 UWCL to enjoy BBC exposure in core market | SportBusiness Media

3 Disney+, EBU land UWCL rights deals in Europe | SportBusiness Media

4 NWSL achieves huge uplift, though cash rights fee short of ’40x’ increase | SportBusiness Media

5 Women’s Euro value up in first standalone EBU deal | SportBusiness Media

6 US Women’s World Cup rights head to Netflix | SportBusiness

7 ITV, BBC to follow Lionesses at 2027 WWC | SportBusiness Media

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