OneSoccer

OneSoccer

Country	Canada (TV and streaming) Global (streaming-only)
Broadcast area	National
Programming
Language(s)	English, French
Ownership
Owner	Mediapro Canada
History
Launched	April 26, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-04-26)
Availability
Streaming media
OneSoccer	www.onesoccer.ca
FuboTV Canada	www.fubo.tv/welcome

OneSoccer is a Canadian category-B exempt English language television channel and English and French language subscription over-the-top video streaming service owned by Mediapro Canada. The service broadcasts programming related to soccer including live and pre-taped games, recap shows, and more. It is the main rightsholder of the Canadian Soccer Association, including holding the rights to the Canadian Premier League, Canadian Championship, and national team matches. It is former rightsholder for various CONCACAF competitions, including the CONCACAF Gold Cup and CONCACAF Champions League.

History

On March 28, 2019, the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Soccer Association announced the creation of Canadian Soccer Business (CSB), an organization "representing commercial assets and inventory for marquee soccer properties in Canada", including "all corporate partnerships and broadcast rights related to Canada Soccer's core assets including its national teams, along with all rights associated with the CPL".^[1] On February 21, 2019, it announced a 10-year agreement with Mediapro, under which it holds all media rights associated with Canada Soccer, including rights to the Canadian Premier League, the Canadian Championship, and rights to national team matches.^[2] In April, Mediapro announced that its rights would be housed in a new subscription service known as OneSoccer,^[3][4] which launched as an online-only live and on-demand subscription service through its website on April 26, 2019, with its first live match airing the next day.^[5]

In August 2019, OneSoccer acquired rights to the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League season.^[6] In January 2020, OneSoccer acquired exclusive Canadian rights to various CONCACAF championships through 2023, including the CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[7][8]

In September 2021, Mediapro Canada announced OneSoccer's first third-party launch of the service via FuboTV's streaming package in Canada.^[9] Later that month, Mediapro Canada announced that it had reached its first deal for carriage of OneSoccer as a linear television channel, with Telus TV.^[10]

On August 5, 2022, OneSoccer filed a complaint with the CRTC against Rogers Communications, alleging that Rogers refused to carry OneSoccer in order to protect its own Sportsnet service from competition.^[11] On March 23, 2023, The CRTC found that Rogers had indeed given undue preference to Sportsnet, as well as other independent broadcasters BeIN Sports and EuroWorld Sport.^[12][13]

In January 2024, five years into the ten-year agreement, CSB retracted the rights after a dispute, leaving the service's future in jeopardy.^[14]

Broadcasting rights

Clubs

• CONCACAF Champions Cup
• Canadian Premier League
• Canadian Championship
• French Ligue 1 (Lille matches only)
• Eredivisie^[15]
• Chinese Super League^[15]

National teams

• CONCACAF Nations League
• Canadian men's and women's national soccer teams' home matches

Staff

As of 2023,^[update] OneSoccer's commentary and analysis team features Andi Petrillo, Kristian Jack, Gareth Wheeler, Oliver Platt, Jordan Wilson, Adam Jenkins, Armen Bedakian, Josh Deming and Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic.^{[16][17][third-party source needed]}

References

1. "Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) – A New Sports Enterprise Now Represents Premier Soccer Properties in Canada". canadasoccer.com. Canadian Soccer Association. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
2. "Mediapro strikes 10-year deal for new Canadian Premier League". SportBusiness Media. February 21, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
3. "Cleveland Cavaliers' Quicken Loans Arena to be renamed". SportsPro Media. April 9, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
4. "Canadian Premier League Available on OneSoccer – 365 Days a Year". CanPL.ca. April 17, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
5. Onesoccer: The ‘home of Canadian soccer’ launches worldwide this weekend Mediapro Canada press release, 2019-04-26
6. "Concacaf and Mediapro agree Nations League rights deal in Canada". SportsPro Media. August 28, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
7. "Mediapro Canada nets exclusive rights to Concacaf Gold Cup". SportsPro Media. January 14, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
8. "OneSoccer to air 2021 Concacaf Champions League starting next week". Canadian Premier League. March 29, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
9. Davies, Catherine (September 2, 2021). "MEDIAPRO Canada partners with fuboTV to bring OneSoccer to Canadian subscribers". MediaPro Canada. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
10. "OneSoccer has also landed in the traditional cable/satellite universe with Telus". Awful Announcing. September 22, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
11. Houpt, Simon (August 5, 2022). "OneSoccer alleges Rogers acting anti-competitively by refusing to carry the streaming service on cable". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
12. Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (March 23, 2023). "Complaint by Timeless Inc. against Rogers Communications Canada Inc. alleging undue preference regarding the carriage of the Canadian English-language exempt discretionary service OneSoccer". crtc.gc.ca. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
13. Houpt, Simon (March 24, 2023). "Rogers gave undue preference to its own sports service over OneSoccer, CRTC rules". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
14. Nightingale, Tom. "Canadian Soccer Business and MediaPro abruptly end broadcasting agreement, pulling Canadian soccer off OneSoccer". Canadian Soccer Daily. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
15. "OneSoccer Picks Up Rights For Manchester City TV, Eredivisie, And CSL". Twitter. October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
16. "OneSoccer - Home". OneSoccer. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
17. "Media Release: CPL welcomes veteran soccer journalist Kristian Jack as VP of Media & Content". Canadian Premier League. June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2021.

External links

• Official website