How to watch Eleven Sports

Of the many over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, many lovers of the beautiful game of football choose to use Eleven Sports. The following is not arguable: football is the most beloved and decorated sport of all time. But Eleven Sports is not just limited to football; it also broadcasts other sports.

Competitors of Eleven Sports include BT sport and Amazon, who go on loggerheads trying to secure broadcasting rights from the nations that play the game.

Because of stiff competition, Eleven Sports have the rights to broadcast some football while the others have the rights to broadcast the same or other sports.

This article will guide you on how to access and use Eleven Sports.

See also: Top 10 Sports Apps For Android And IOS.

Eleven Sports, what?

Eleven sports offers paid football streaming services, founded and owned by Andrea Radrizzani (Italian, chairs the Leeds United board and owns Aser Ventures).

You can stream the Spanish La Liga Santander, the Italian Serie A, the Dutch Eredivisie, the Chinese Super League, the US’s MLS, and the Swedish Allsvenskan.

Eleven Sports, however, has restricted viewership and is only available in 11 select countries and nine regions which it calls territories. These territories are Belgium/Luxembourg, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan, UK & Ireland, USA.

The ‘how’

If you are in these territories, you can watch sports content on Eleven Sports via the web, Androids through their Google Play Store app, or iOS via their Apple Store app. Also, there are other platforms: Android TV (Google Play Store), Amazon Fire TV Stick (Amazon Store), and casting through Google Chromecast.

To start using Eleven Sports, you must first subscribe through their website. You will be shown a ‘404 Not Found’ page if you try to visit the website from a region that is not within the territories.

The subscription and registration process is the same across all platforms where Eleven Sports exists.

Pros

  1. If you are in the UK and subscribe to Eleven Sports, you can watch it outside the UK and within the EU.
  2. It enables users to pause and rewind content.
  3. You can stream matches and also watch highlights.
  4. They only concentrate on football and do not try to sell you anything else.

Cons

  1. Eleven Sports does not have the rights to broadcast the Premier League (bummer, right?)
  2. You cannot watch content on Eleven Sports from multiple devices at any one moment as you can do with DSTV.
  3. It is not available for many countries in the southern hemisphere, where many football fans live. This unavailability causes football fans to opt for illegal ways of streaming football live, and eventually, the platform loses millions.
  4. The transmission quality goes down if you use the Eleven Sports website and connect your PC or laptop with your TV through HDMI.

Payment info

With between £4.99 and £5.38 per month (UK and Ireland), you are given the power to watch different leagues across Europe and China. On average, the monthly subscription cost is £6. You can get it annually at around £59 (which is approximately £13 short if you were to pay £6 per month). Early birds can get the yearly package at about £50.

Bringing this to a close

Although football has been brought to its knees due to the coronavirus pandemic, Eleven Sports is an option you can consider, especially if you live in the EU.

Although it does not have the rights to broadcast the Premier League, Eleven Sports still offers good football. You would surely love to follow Cristiano Ronaldo in Series A and Lionel Messi in La Liga Santander, wouldn’t you?

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