S7
Oh yeah, I forgot about these:
In 2017 there was at least one Spanish game at 11pm CET, to avoid a clash with Champions League play-offs. The 2003 midnight game surprises me partly because of the shenanigans - Barça chose the kickoff time and picked Wednesday morning, because Sevilla had refused to do Tuesday evening.
La Liga also had a tradition of trolling British Sky viewers, by starting Barça v Real Madrid on Saturday afternoons between 2.45 and 5.15 UK time, when the coverage couldn't be shown on UK TV.
El Clásico kickoff times + British anger level
2013: Sat 5pm | | | | | | | | | |
2014: Sat 5pm | | | | | | | | | |
2015: Sat 5.15pm | | | |
2016: Sat 7.30pm | | |
2016: Sat 3.15pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(rage possibly Brexit-assisted)
2017: Sat 12 noon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Nice work imo. The 'inconvenient' times will probably continue – as mentioned earlier, the Asia audience is a bigger factor in La Liga's schedules, and in some other European leagues. So, early afternoon kickoffs might become more common. Eleven Sports is taking the UK rights to La Liga, but it has English football rights abroad, so it wouldn't try to breach the FA's blackout.
El Clásico may not be televised (pic: Alejandro Ramos, cc-by-sa)
Apparently Spain had some domestic football 11pm kickoffs in 2012? 
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/complete-and-utter-shock-spain-midnight-football-proves-rather-unpopular
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/complete-and-utter-shock-spain-midnight-football-proves-rather-unpopular
In 2017 there was at least one Spanish game at 11pm CET, to avoid a clash with Champions League play-offs. The 2003 midnight game surprises me partly because of the shenanigans - Barça chose the kickoff time and picked Wednesday morning, because Sevilla had refused to do Tuesday evening.
La Liga also had a tradition of trolling British Sky viewers, by starting Barça v Real Madrid on Saturday afternoons between 2.45 and 5.15 UK time, when the coverage couldn't be shown on UK TV.
El Clásico kickoff times + British anger level
2013: Sat 5pm | | | | | | | | | |
2014: Sat 5pm | | | | | | | | | |
2015: Sat 5.15pm | | | |
2016: Sat 7.30pm | | |
2016: Sat 3.15pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
(rage possibly Brexit-assisted)
2017: Sat 12 noon | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Nice work imo. The 'inconvenient' times will probably continue – as mentioned earlier, the Asia audience is a bigger factor in La Liga's schedules, and in some other European leagues. So, early afternoon kickoffs might become more common. Eleven Sports is taking the UK rights to La Liga, but it has English football rights abroad, so it wouldn't try to breach the FA's blackout.
El Clásico may not be televised (pic: Alejandro Ramos, cc-by-sa)
SP
I take it there is an exception for the World Cup in the Saturday 3pm blackout for live football?
TL
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I take it there is an exception for the World Cup in the Saturday 3pm blackout for live football?
The Saturday 3pm blackout is from the first Saturday in the Football League season to the last weekend of the Premier League season. Although there is always exceptions for International Football as well during a football season, generally on International Weekends the blackout doesn't exist so Sky or BT could show Non League or lower Football League matches live at 3pm and Northern Ireland last home match in March was a 2pm kick off and was live on Freesports for example. Over the summer the blackout doesn't exist either.
S7
This year it ended in May - https://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=19817.html - and only England, Montenegro and Scotland have such a blackout apparently.
They did make an exception for the U17 World Cup final, England v Spain - it was on BBC Two on a normal league day.
They did make an exception for the U17 World Cup final, England v Spain - it was on BBC Two on a normal league day.