Where to watch 2025/26 Serie A matches in the UK after new broadcast deal

Serie A's new 2025/26 season is underway, as the great and the good of Italian men's football go head-to-head once again.

Last year saw Napoli secure only their fourth title in Serie A history (but their second in three years), as former Spurs boss Antonio Conte convinced Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku to join the club.

They took the league title back from Inter Milan by just one point, with ex-Manchester United star McTominay becoming a fan favourite, Serie A MVP winner and a Ballon d'Or nominee in a career standout year.

The transfer window has seen many of the top clubs looking towards experience – with Napoli's signing of Kevin de Bruyne, Ciro Immobile's move to Bologna and Luka Modrić's arrival at AC Milan on a free transfer among such moves – but there are still rumours about eye-catching loan deals with a few days of the current window remaining.

Serie A also features a couple of ex-Premier League stars among its coaches, with former Arsenal, Barcelona and Chelsea star Cesc Fàbregas in charge of Como and ex-Arsenal, Juventus, Inter and Manchester City star Patrick Viera managing Genoa (where he's just signed a contract extension until 2027).

Matchday 1 has already taken place, with an emphatic 5-0 win for Inter against Torino and a shock home defeat for AC Milan against newly-promoted Cremonese.

There's a new broadcast deal affecting UK viewers this season, too – so read on to find out how to tune in to the rest of the Serie A 2025/26 campaign.

Sports streaming service DAZN is now the main host of Serie A live matches in the UK and Ireland, and will also broadcast Spanish-language coverage in the US.

DAZN subscribers in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch eight matches per matchday exclusively through the service, with the remaining games broadcast non-exclusively. It's the network's first broadcast deal to air a major men's European domestic football tournament in the UK.

Watch Serie A live with DAZN membership

Watch Serie A live with DAZN membership

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However, there's one important thing to bear in mind – DAZN's confirmed that any Serie A match broadcast within the Saturday afternoon live football blackout window (2.45pm-5.15pm) cannot be broadcast live in full for viewers in the UK or Ireland.

DAZN has two main subscription tiers in the UK:

• Monthly Flex: Priced at £24.99/month, where you can cancel with 30 days' notice

• Annual subscription: Priced at £119.99/year (for one upfront payment), or £14.99/month (with payments spread over 12 months).

DAZN's base membership offering includes all live Serie A matches, plus highlights of the league, Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italia tournament.

It also has men's football highlights from La Liga in Spain and the Bundesliga in Germany, plus selected Jupiler Pro League games from the top flight of Belgian men's football.

This membership also includes coverage of non-PPV boxing matches, with 185 fights per year from promoters including Matchroom and Misfits, plus basketball and live LIV Golf coverage. Note that some boxing coverage is pay-per-view, with additional premium fees.

DAZN also broadcasts the Vanarama National League (the fifth tier of the men's football pyramid in England) and NFL games, if you're interested in the other kind of football. However, dedicated passes for these championships are sold separately.

TNT Sports will continue to air select Serie A games in the UK and Ireland this season, with details available via its schedule pages.

You can find a full fixture list on the official Serie A website (in Italian or English), as well as an archive of results with those all-important scores.

Serie A's 2024/25 season started on Saturday 23 August, and is due to conclude on Sunday, 24 May, 2026. There will be 38 matchdays in total.

After a change in the league's rules a couple of years ago, if the 17th and 18th-placed sides are tied on points, the season is extended for a play-off to determine who is relegated. This last happened in 2023, when Hellas Verona beat Spezia Calcio 3-1 in a one-off fixture, which marked Serie A's first relegation play-off since 2005.

The rules have since been tweaked again, which means any relegation play-off would take place over two legs.

If there are more than two teams tied on points including the 18th-placed side (which can't be ruled out), then their head-to-head records will be considered, with the two lowest-placed sides in that mini-league facing each other in the play-off.

The best place to find this out is on the Serie A website, where you can choose the country you're in and see who holds the rights. Some countries will have one rights holder, while others will share rights between multiple platforms (for example Canada, where games are split between fubo, TLN and Sirius XM).

For Serie A fans in the US, CBS Sports (and Paramount+) extended its rights deal for a further two seasons, with coverage now running to the end of the current 2025/26 season.

The Serie A website is home to all manner of stats including the league table here – but not just this season's standings.

Archive data goes all the way back to the 1986-87 season, and if you click on any club during the season, you'll be able to track their matchday-by-matchday form with a green circle for a win, red for a loss and grey for a draw.

For top scorers, you'll need to do a little more work. Head to the Statistics portal, click on 'Player' to the right of the page, then choose the season you want from the drop-down menu towards the left of the page. You should then see a 'Goals' table, which will populate as the season progresses.

The season's top scorer receives the Capocannoniere award, which was renamed in 2021 as the Paolo Rossi Award in honour of the late World Cup-winning striker.

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