Astro Arena is a Malaysian television station owned and operated by
Radio Televisyen Malaysia
Radio Televisyen Malaysia ( en, Radio Television of Malaysia, abbreviated as RTM, stylised as rtm), also known as the Department of Broadcasting, Malaysia ( ms, Jabatan Penyiaran Malaysia) is the national public broadcaster of Malaysia. Establ ...
and
Astro. It is the first
24/7
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Malay language
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sports channel in
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
. This channel can be viewed on channel 801 through Astro's Family Pack. Launched on 26 March 2010, it was the idea from the former Malaysian Minister of Youth and Sports
YB. Dato' Sri Ahmad Shabery Cheek, together with the
Olympic Council of Malaysia and
Astro, to have a sports channel dedicated solely to the development of
Malaysian sports.
Astro Arena is a 4-in-one channel featuring live local sports, a comprehensive 7-day-a-week coverage of local and international sports news, informative magazine and information programming and interactive viewer involvement.
The channel delivers 700 hours of live, local sports a year, with an additional 2000 hours of replays greatly expanding the amount of local sports available in the country. It also provides coverage of up to 56 hours a week of Malaysians competing at international levels or the best in world sports of a particular interest to the Malaysian audience.
Astro Arena is currently available for free-to-view on
Astro customers and on
NJOI customers in Malaysia on Channel 831 in Standard Definition (SD) format (for current NJOI customers only) and channel 801 in High Definition (HD) format (Astro customers & NJOI Prepaid).
Channels
Astro Arena 2
Astro Arena 2 is the first sister channel of Astro Arena. Launched on 1 October 2021, it is broadcast in Channel 802 in HD. It airing localised coverage of international sports and sports news updates for Malaysian sport fans.
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Coverage
Current
Broadcasting rights
Football
= Soccer
=
*
FIFA
** National teams
*** Men's :
****
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the ' (FIFA), the ...
(including qualifiers for Europe (all matches) and Asia (selected matches)
*
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs foo ...
**
UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The competition is contes ...
**
UEFA Nations League
The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body.
The first tournament began in September 2018. The ...
*
FAM
**
Malaysia national football team
The Malaysia national football team () represents Malaysia in international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia. The national team is recognised by FIFA as the successor of the defunct Malaya national football ...
(World Cup and all Asian Cup qualifiers from first round, with exclusive coverage for all friendlies)
**
Malaysia national under-23 football team
**
Malaysia women's national football team
The Malaysia women's national football team represents Malaysia in international women's association football; it is controlled by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). Despite football being one of the nation's favorite sports, Malaysia i ...
*** Men's :
**
Malaysia Premier Futsal League
The Malaysia Premier Futsal League (MPFL) is the national top-tier futsal league in Malaysia. It was previously known as the Liga Futsal Kebangsaan (LFK). The competition is separated into Men and women category.
Since its inception in 200 ...
*** Women's :
**
Malaysia Premier Futsal League (Women)
*
AFF
**
AFF Championship
The ASEAN Football Federation Championship (less formally the AFF Championship or AFF Cup), currently known as the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup for sponsorship reason, is the primary association football tournament organized by the ASEAN Footbal ...
**
AFF Women's Championship
*
AFC
AFC may stand for:
Organizations
* Action for Children, a UK children's charity
* AFC Enterprises, the franchisor of Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits
* Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African multilateral development finance institution
* A ...
**
AFC Asian Cup
The AFC Asian Cup is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), determining the continental champion of Asia. It is the second oldest cont ...
**
AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...
**
AFC Cup
The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying ...
*
King's Cup
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King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to:
Sports Football
* Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football
* King Cup (sometimes named King's Cup), Saudi Arabian men's football nat ...
*
Kirin Cup Soccer
*
DFL (no broadcast since 2015 until 2020)
**
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footbal ...
*
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is ...
*
DFB-Pokal
The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considere ...
: coverage starts from round of 16
Badminton
*
BWF
**
BWF World Tour
** World Championships
*** Teams
****
Thomas Cup
The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport's global governing body. The championships h ...
(men's championship)
****
Uber Cup (women's championship)
****
Sudirman Cup
The Sudirman Cup is an international badminton mixed team competition contested by member countries of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every two years since the 1989 Sudir ...
(mixed team championship)
***
Individuals
An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own need ...
*
Badminton Asia Championships
The Badminton Asia Championships (formerly Asian Badminton Championships until 2006) is a tournament organized by governing body Badminton Asia to crown the best badminton players in Asia.
The tournament started in 1962 and is held annually sin ...
(
national teams (men's, women's, and mixed) and Individuals)
*
Malaysia Purple League
Hockey
*
FIH
** Men :
***
Men's FIH Hockey World Cup
The Men's FIH Hockey World Cup is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament was started in 1971. It is held every four years, bridging the four years between the Summer ...
World Cups (including qualifiers for senior teams)
***
Men's FIH Pro League
The Men's FIH Pro League is an international men's field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), which replaces the Men's FIH Hockey World League. The competition also serves as a qualifier for the Hockey World ...
***
FIH Junior World Cup
**Women's :
***
Women's FIH Hockey World Cup
***
Women's FIH Junior World Cup World Cups (including qualifiers for senior teams)
**
Women's FIH Pro League
*
Asia Hockey
** Men :
***
Men's Hockey Asia Cup
**Women :
***
Women's Hockey Asia Cup
*
MHC
**
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
**
Malaysia Hockey League
The Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) is a top league competition for field hockey clubs in the Malaysian hockey league system. There are, at present, seven teams in the Malaysia Hockey League. The competition has been played since 1987. At present a ...
Netball
*
Asian Netball Championships
*
Netball World Cup
The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by the World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and th ...
Sepak takraw
*
ISTAF
*
Sepak Takraw League (including Champions Cup tournament)
Motorsport
*
Asia Road Racing Championship
* Malaysia Superbike Championship
Multi-sport events
*
Commonwealth Games
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*
Summer Olympic Games
*
Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were he ...
*
Asian Games
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until th ...
*
SEA Games
Former
Football
= Soccer
=
*
FAM
**
Malaysia FA Cup
The Malaysia FA Cup ( ms, Piala FA) is an annual national knock-out football (soccer), football tournament in Malaysia. The cup was first held in 1990. The competition was previously managed by Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), before bein ...
(until 2014)
*
MFL
**
Malaysia Premier League
The Malaysia Premier League ( ms, Liga Premier) was the second-tier professional football league in Malaysia. The league replaced the former second-tier league, Liga Perdana 2 in the Malaysian football league system.
The Malaysia Premier Leagu ...
(until 2014)
**
Malaysia Super League
The Malaysia Super League ( ms, Liga Super Malaysia) is the men's top professional football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership (FMLLP), now known as the Malay ...
(until 2014)
**
Piala Sumbangsih (until 2014)
**
Malaysia Challenge Cup
The Malaysia Challenge Cup (Malay: ''Piala Cabaran Malaysia'') is a Malaysian football competition held under the auspices of the Malaysian Football League and the Football Association of Malaysia.
The tournament was created for Malaysia Super ...
(until 2019)
**
Malaysia Cup
The Malaysia Cup ( ms, Piala Malaysia), formerly known as ''Malaya Cup'', is an annual football tournament in Malaysia, held at the end of the calendar year. The cup was first held in 1921. Despite its prestige and popularity as the nation's ol ...
(until 2014)
Hockey
*
Sultan of Johor Cup (until 2014)
Motorsport
* Malaysia Championship Series (until 2019)
* Malaysia Speed Festival (until 2019)
Shows
* Formasi
* Formasi Ekstra
* Forum
* Grandstand Ahad
* Kafe Sukan
* Masa Tambahan
* Nadi Arena
* Raket
* Bola@Mamak
* Arena Sukan
* Sehari Bersama
* Flik
* Dengan Izin
* Sorakan 12
* Masa Tambahan – Arena Bola
* Masa Tambahan – Antarabangsa
* Arena Bola
* Deskripsi Nadi Arena – DNA
See also
*
Astro SuperSport
*
Astro
References
External links
www.arena.my
{{Malaysia TV
Astro Malaysia Holdings television channels
Television stations in Malaysia
Sports television in Malaysia