Goal TV is a

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owned by TLN Media Group. Goal TV primarily features programming related to

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

(soccer).

History

In April 2006, TLN Media Group. was granted permission by the

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(CRTC) to launch ''RCS Television'', a channel described as "a national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to rugby, cricket and soccer." The channel was launched in July 2010 as EuroWorld SportNiche sports channels in Canada
The Globe and Mail 2010-12-28 featuring primarily programming related to

including coverage of

Ligue 1 Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in France and the highest level of the French football league system. Administered by the Ligue de ...

from France,

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

from Italy and coverage of top

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tournaments through 2014 including the Men's & Women's World Cup. In 2025, EuroWorld Sport was re-branded as ''Goal TV''.

Programming

Since 2015, Goal TV has carried live sports programming on a very occasional basis in the event of programming conflicts on parent channel TLN. For the vast majority of its schedule, Goal TV airs classic games, football documentaries, series & films and paid programming. Previously the channel also held partial rights to live game broadcasts from France's

, Italy's

, the

UEFA Europa League The UEFA Europa League (UEL), usually known simply as the Europa League, is an annual association football, football club competition organised since 1971 by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European footb ...

, and various FIFA events between 2010 and 2014 (as part of parent company TLN's sublicence from

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), including the

FIFA Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international association football tournament for men's national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It was contested by the holders of each of the six continental championships ( AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBO ...

and

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the Beach Soccer World Championshi ...

, and multilingual coverage of the

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. Since August 2012, North American broadcast rights to Ligue 1 and Serie A have been owned by beIN Sports, which did not launch a Canadian channel until 2014, while Europa League rights were acquired by

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acquired Canadian rights to FIFA events beginning in 2015.

Rival channels

* GolTV Canada * Sportsnet World

References

External links

* Sports television networks in Canada Soccer on Canadian television Television channels and stations established in 2010 Specialty television channels in Canada English-language television stations in Canada 2010 establishments in Canada {{Canada-tv-station-stub

History

Programming

Rival channels

See also

References

External links