Disney’s ESPN Buys Rights to European Soccer Challenge

Sports Business Daily: ESPN will formally announce its purchase of a U.S. package of European soccer rights that was agreed to nearly 10 months ago. ESPN agreed to pay around $110 million for a package that includes Euro ’20 and its qualifiers, the European ’22 World Cup qualifiers, a planned UEFA Nations League tournament of friendlies in ’18 and ’20 and the UEFA Nations League Final Four in ’19 and ’21.