Soccer Streaming Platform FIFA Plus Launches, Will Have 40,000 Live Games Annually
variety.comNaman Ramachandran The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the highest governing body of international soccer, has launched digital platform FIFA Plus with plans to stream 40,000 live games per year.
The games will be from 100 FIFA member associations and will include 11,000 women’s matches. Live coverage will range from Europe’s topflight leagues to previously unserved competitions from around the world in men’s, women’s and youth football.
From launch, 1,400 matches will be live streamed monthly on FIFA Plus, rising rapidly. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the platform aims to be home to every women’s and men’s World Cup match ever recorded, totalling more than 2,000 hours of archive content.
The FIFA Plus archive will launch with more than 2,500 videos dating back to the 1950s, with many more to be added. The platform is available globally across all web and mobile devices, and a range of connected devices soon, initially in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions, with Mandarin, Bahasa, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Arabic and Hindi editions to follow in June. “Our 100% focus is on reach, we can’t achieve our development ambitions and our business model if it isn’t extending reach,” Charlotte Burr, FIFA Plus lead, said at a presentation event for the platform.
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