How to watch UEFA Women's Champions League in Ireland Republic

BBC Sport has acquired exclusive free-to-air UEFA Women’s Champions League rights in the United Kingdom in a deal spanning five years (from 2025 to 2030), covering the 2025-26, 2026-27, 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30 seasons. Thanks to this deal, fans in the UK can watch or stream up to seven UEFA Women’s Champions League games per season live for free on the BBC’s linear television and digital platforms.

The seven UWCL games available on BBC under this broadcast rights deal include the UEFA Women’s Champions League final, the first and second legs of one UWCL semi-final, and four games from the earlier rounds. Viewers in the UK can watch the UEFA Women’s Champions League games live on the BBC TV channel and BBC iPlayer, the public broadcaster’s video-on-demand and live streaming service.

Additionally, UWCL fans in the UK can watch the best moments, goals, and highlights from all UEFA Women’s Champions League games every round on the BBC Sport website, app, and social media platforms. This includes games that the BBC does not broadcast.

Furthermore, the BBC announced that UEFA Women’s Champions League highlights and clips would also be available on the BBC Sport Women’s Football TikTok channel. Fans in the UK can also listen to live commentary of the biggest UEFA Women’s Champions League games on BBC Radio 5 Live.

As a public broadcaster, BBC TV and the BBC’s other linear channels are available for free to watch without requiring a pay-TV subscription, though a TV license paid by the public is required. Additionally, it is accessible via third-party pay-TV operators such as Sky, Virgin, and EE TV.

Meanwhile, BBC iPlayer is available on connected TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes, streamers and platforms including Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media, and YouView, among others. Whether you are accessing the streaming service via its website or the BBC iPlayer app, an internet connection is required.

DAZN holds the official broadcast rights to the UEFA Women's Champions League in Ireland Republic. The deal covers seasons 2024-2027.

RTE holds the broadcast rights to live Women's Champions League matches in Ireland until the end of the 2029-30 season.

The free-to-air broadcaster shows one match from the competition each week as standard, but can also show any matches featuring Irish teams as and when they happen. At the end of each season, RTE also shows one of the two semi-finals live and the final.

To watch the Women's Champions League in Ireland, fans in Ireland need access to RTE One and Two, which are available on terrestrial TV in the country.

Live streaming of the Women's Champions League is available on the RTE Player, which is available online and through a downloadable app on smart devices.

All Women's Champions League programming on RTE is in English.

Disney+ holds Pan-European broadcast rights to the UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) from the 2025-26 season through 2029-30. The subscription-based OTT streaming service shows live UWCL at no extract cost on its online and mobile platforms, with production handled by ESPN.

Disney+ streams 75 live UEFA Women’s Champions League games every season throughout its five-year deal. At the time of the news announcement, reports indicated that Disney+’s 125 million global subscriber base was an important factor in UEFA’s decision to award them rights. Previously, global sports streaming service DAZN held UWCL rights and streamed the matches freely on YouTube, but their contract ended in 2024-25.