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Unbeatable Football is what they’re calling it at SuperSport and it’s easy to see why with the new season laced with rivalries, tension, tradition and more storylines than your favourite Hollywood thriller.
With more than two dozen leagues and tournaments on its content slate, SuperSport is poised to deliver in a major way during the 2021/22 football season.
On DStv, the Premier League alone has 380 matches and this will be supplemented by a feast of DStv Premiership action, including an array of associated Cup competitions, plus Emirates FA Cup, Carabao Cup, LaLiga, Serie A, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, FIFA and UEFA friendlies and qualifiers, FIFA 2022, the under-17 Women’s World Cup and also the Zambia Super Division, Ethiopian Premier League, CAF Champions League, CAF Confederations Cup, and AFCON.
“The appetite of our viewers for football is insatiable and we have every intention of satisfying them with the very best programming,” assured Marc Jury, chief executive of SuperSport.
EUROPEAN ACTION
After a busy season jam-packed with elite international football action in the Euros, Copa America, and 2020 Olympics, attention shifts to domestic club competitions across Europe.
La Liga
Action in the Spanish League begins on August 13, the 91st season of the league.
The opener will be a match between Valencia and Getafe. Atlético Madrid are defending champions, having won their 11th title last season.
The league will conclude on May 22, 2022.
Serie A
Serie A’s campaign opens on August 21 with four matches getting the league – now in its 120th year – underway: Hellas Verona vs Sassuolo, Inter vs Genoa, Empoli vs Lazio, and Torino vs Atalanta.
Inter Milan are defending champions.
The Italian league is scheduled to end on May 22, 2022.
Premier League
The new season of Premier League, now in its 30th year, begins on August 13, with newly-promoted Brentford hosting Arsenal to kick things off.
Manchester City are the defending champions, having won their fifth Premier League title during the previous season.
This will be the third season to use the video assistant referee (VAR) review system, and it will be the second season to have a February winter break.
The season will end on May 22, 2022 with all 20 teams playing on the same day, bringing the curtain down on a mammoth 380 fixtures.