FIFA Women’s World Cup: ARD, ZDF, DAZN and Sky – who’s showing what?

On July 20, 2023, the FIFA Women’s World Cup will kick off in Australia and New Zealand. The dispute over broadcasting rights between FIFA and the broadcasters continued for several months. Then FIFA President Gianni Infantino publicly threatened blackout if broadcasters did not increase their bids. Meanwhile, the light was brought into the darkness

All fans of top scorers Alexandra Popp and her teammates breathe a sigh of relief: the matches of the German women’s football team at the next World Cup will be broadcast live on ARD and ZDF.

After a fierce struggle and with help from Switzerland, public broadcasters broadcast the matches from Australia and New Zealand. The agreement has now been reached by a hoax: because the contractual partners of FIFA are not ARD and ZDF themselves, but the Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The European Broadcasting Union has reached an agreement in principle with FIFA to include the markets of Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain in the current contract for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. According to this agreement, all matches and all goals of the World Cup can be watched in Australia and New Zealand, which takes place from July 20 to 20 August 2023, on ARD and ZDF.

Women’s World Cup: Where are the matches headed?

This year’s women’s world championships are held in Australia and New Zealand and therefore in four different time zones. Live broadcasting works in this country due to the time difference in the morning and sometimes even at night. For example, the opening match between New Zealand and Norway will take place on July 20 at 8am ET. The opener appears in the first.

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The final will be shown on ZDF on August 20 at 12 noon.

For the German national team, the World Cup begins on July 24 with the first match against Morocco. The other opponents in Group H are Colombia (on July 30) and South Korea (on August 3).

Women’s World Cup: Germany matches live

ARD and ZDF divided three matches of the German national team’s preliminary round between themselves.

Germany-Morocco (24.7): 10.30am on ZDF

Germany – Colombia (30.7.) 11.30am on the first

Germany-South Korea (3.8.) 12 noon on ZDF

Sky and DAZN are changing plans

Sky subscribers can also access football programmes. A broadcaster’s spokesperson told TVSpielfilm.de that they wanted to show summaries of the games: “Of course we will accompany the Women’s World Cup on Sky and be there with a reporter. We have also applied to FIFA for the rights to summaries of the games.”Since it became known that ARD and ZDF They’ll be there with the full live stream, something has also been transmitted on Sky. The provider has announced to t-online.de that it is considering acquiring living rights. “Costs, airtimes and exclusivity” must be in the right proportion.

DAZN also wants to show at least parts of the Women’s World Cup. The sports broadcasting service is still considering the possibility of “relying on spotlight rights as in the past”, confirmed a spokesperson for TVSpielfilm.de. Now that ARD and ZDF are officially present with live broadcasts, efforts are being made again to obtain sublicenses. This was already in place at EM 2022, where DAZN showed off all the games. It is not yet clear how many games you have signed up for and which sub-licenses will be distributed.

What is the date of the Women’s World Cup?

The Women’s World Championships will be held in Australia and New Zealand this year, thus in four different time zones. The live broadcast will be played in the morning and sometimes even at night in this country due to the time difference. For example, the opening match between New Zealand and Norway will take place on July 20 at 8am ET.

For the German national team, the World Cup begins on July 24 with the first match against Morocco. The other opponents in Group H are Colombia (on July 30) and South Korea (on August 3).

Just a narrow victory over Vietnam

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg shouted again and again in vain against the din of several Vietnamese fans at the Peppererberg stadium, and later disposed of her players. Four weeks before the preliminary round kicks off in Australia, the national coach is still searching for her World Cup squad. The 55-year-old responded to the German footballers’ boring 2:1 against World Cup outsiders from Asia in Offenbach on Saturday night. The bottom line is that there is a long list of flaws, and one more demo game to import – but hope for the aces of VfL Wolfsburg, FC Bayern and the courses in Herzogenaurach:

“It was definitely a bit mixed,” Voss-Tecklenburg said of the starting line-up in front of 13,652 fans with several second-row players. On readiness: “We have a different claim, that’s obvious. But we also know we may be at 40 percent or 50 percent at most. Today, however, we’ve gained a lot of knowledge.”

Above all, the European runner-up “still has a lot to do on the training ground” at the end of his first preparations and in Group B from July 1-7. Against the toxic Vietnamese side, Frankfurt’s Nicole Anomie and Hoffenheim’s Paulina Krompegel, who scored alongside Janina Meng, were the most recommended favourites. In the end, the powerful goalkeeper Merle Frohms blocked the equaliser. Most of Bayern’s Champions League finalists VfL Wolfsburg have been rested around captain Alexandra Popp and ill Lena Oberdorf, as have five Bayern Munich players who arrived later.

The fact that the DFB Ladies are now only going into the match against Zambia on July 7 in Fürth in order to hone their automatism shows that the candidacy dispute between FC Munich and the DFB continues to reverberate. Next, Voss-Tecklenburg will name the 23-man squad. Five players from the provisional team are required to stay home. Having arrived in Australia, where group matches are taking place against Morocco, Colombia and South Korea and where World Cup favorites France and Brazil are already threatening in the round of 16, the national coach wants an internal test against a young team.

“After three units of the field it was the first game. We can classify that, but we also know what we need to do on many levels over the next three weeks,” said Voss-Tecklenburg – after she had proven her team’s many shortcomings. Physique remains the easiest to solve, but it also spoke of a lack of “basics”, handling of pressure and tactical understanding: “Do we understand the game the way we want to?”

Striker Laura Freigang of Eintracht Frankfurt found the poor success rate “obvious”. For substitute defender Marina Hegering, “the fencing behavior was the very important differentiator.” Midfielder Lena Laetwin admitted there was still a lot to work on, but also stated: “Not everything was going smoothly before the European Championships.”

In England, the Ladies of the Union quickly found each other last year and got inspired before being thwarted by the home team in the final. On the other hand: Voss-Tecklenburg recently needed almost all fingers to list the World Cup favorite. And this year their selection in the matches against Sweden (0-0), the Netherlands (1-0) and Brazil (1-2) was convincing only in stages. However, a third world title after 2003 and 2007 is the bigger goal.

Written by Geza Albrecht and Jan Thennius-Heymann with dpa material

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