Watch League of Ireland.ie: SSE Airtricity League football streaming service to launch in Ireland & overseas

SSE Airtricity League football streaming service to launch in Ireland & overseas (July 2020)

bkman1990 UTV Newsline 22 July 2020 6:53pm

This new streaming service is being done in partnership with the League of Ireland, RTÉ Sport & GAAGo.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0722/1154815-new-streaming-service-for-league-of-ireland-announced/

It allow LOI fans to livestream matches from every football club involved with the SSE Airtricity League worldwide.

https://www.watchloi.ie/

Packages are below

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Season Pass (Ireland)

Price €55

A WatchLOI Season Pass gives you access to watch 55+ games from this season’s SSE Airtiricty League, as well as live Extra.ie FAI Cup action AND exclusive access to classic Republic of Ireland games from the archive on WatchLOI TV.

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Season Pass (Rest Of World)

Price €69

A WatchLOI Season Pass gives you access to watch all the games remaining in this season’s SSE Airtiricty League (65+ matches), as well as live Extra.ie FAI Cup action AND exclusive access to classic Republic of Ireland games from the archive on WatchLOI TV.

https://www.watchloi.ie/packages

All streams for the matches will be available in HD. You can watch them live & on-demand on mutliple devices.

I only heard about this new service on the RTÉ Six-One News this evening. Well done League of Ireland.

Last edited by bkman1990 on 22 July 2020 7:10pm

rdd Founding member 23 July 2020 11:59pm

Goodness knows how they’ll make any money on it, even in Ireland the League of Ireland is a minority interest (average attendances last year of just over 2,000) compared to the FAPL (it wasn’t always so, particularly before English football was on TV, but nowadays certainly). And quite the irony that a company part owned by the GAA (though essentially operated by RTÉ) are the ones running it.

Domestic partners RTÉ and eir Sport continue to be able to show matches and these won’t be available on WatchLOI in Ireland. It appears eir Sport’s fixtures can’t be shown on WatchLOI anywhere and I can only presume that is because Premier Sports still holds U.K. rights to them.

Last edited by rdd on 24 July 2020 12:05am