UEFA moves to DAZN

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JPNZ

1547 posts

Uber Geek

#315763 14-Aug-2024 13:04

European football has its third home in New Zealand in as many years, with global streaming player DAZN bagging local rights to Uefa club competitions – including the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League from the 2024/25 season through to 2026/27.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/dazn-grabs-nz-rights-to-uefa-champions-league-as-football-split-over-three-streamers/MXU7N7I4OZCQTB2MZXMUNDWJVE/

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invisibleman18

1360 posts

Uber Geek

#3271802 15-Aug-2024 09:19

Unfortunately a new provider usually means it's going to cost more and that is the case. With Bein I could pay $14.99 per month and cancel once my team were out (generally around 6 months). With this the option is $14.99 per month for 12 months, or $29.99 per month to cancel any time. The NZ Herald story and press release on DAZN's own website mentions a $149.99 deal for 12 months but this doesn't look to be an option on the sign up page - asked on their live chat but they were no help. I'm only interested in watching my team's UEFA games and nothing else they have so this will cost me double what it did last season. Watching my team is important to me but I just can't justify paying double at the moment with everything else also going up. Will stick to watching the EPL the legal way and reluctantly have to look into other ways to watch the CL games.

Have always preferred to pay for the legal method to guarantee I can watch the games without having to mess around with dodgy streams that never work or VPNs etc. Also the CL games tend to be midweek around the the time I either start work or leave for work depending on when clocks change so I usually watch at least a half delayed at lunch time at work and I need the legal way on the work WIFI. Sigh.

Edit: Also FA Cup is still listed on Sky and was never on Bein so think that's wrong in the story. Bein still look to have Carabao Cup.

gjdavies75

79 posts

Master Geek

#3283736 18-Sep-2024 22:20

Just wondering if anyone has used the DAZN service for Champions league coverage so far?

The online reviews for DAZN seem uniformly dreadful, lots of mentions of a poor quality App, lots of buffering when watching and poor customer service.

If we're stuck with this lot for 3 seasons, it doesn't sound at all promising.

invisibleman18

1360 posts

Uber Geek

#3283808 19-Sep-2024 09:38

Has anyone found a suitable alternative to DAZN? I thought there was a 7 day free trial which I was going to use to get through this week and still have time to figure something out before round 2, but looks like you only get that if you also pay $34.99 for the Joshua fight. Otherwise the options are $29.99 a month to cancel with 30 days notice or $14.99 a month but have to sign for 12 months. Given I'm only interested in CL (and only my team), I only need it for about 6 months so this makes it double the cost of last season on Bein which is sadly unaffordable for me at the moment.

gjdavies75

79 posts

Master Geek

#3340107 7-Feb-2025 11:50

I've been using DAZN on my Smart TV for European football over the last few months.

I've found the quality of the streams to be OK, but my god the App is awful. Slow to respond to commands. Makes fast-forwarding through halftime to the start of the second half a challenge.

Also, it sometimes defaults to showing the brief highlights of a game rather than the full match, so need to be alert for that. It's clearly a channel with it's main focus on boxing/MMA.

I'm not a fan at all. So if there is a silver lining to my team being so poor that they probably won't be in European competition next year, it means I won't have to put up with this crappy App.

How is everyone else finding it?