Football streams: today's fixtures, live scores and the UK TV guide

Football streams in the UK, competition by competition

The Premier League is shared between Sky Sports, TNT Sports and Prime Video, with free highlights on BBC Match of the Day. The Champions League, Europa League and Conference League are on TNT Sports. The FA Cup is free to air, split between BBC and ITV, and the EFL is mainly on Sky Sports.

Every match page on this site carries the same information for its own fixture, so you do not need to memorise the split. Open the match, read the where to watch section, and you have the channel.

Free football streams: what is actually free

Searches for free football streams and football streams free are really asking what can be watched without a subscription. In the UK the honest list is short but real: live FA Cup matches on BBC and ITV and their streaming services BBC iPlayer and ITVX, England internationals on free to air TV, and Match of the Day highlights every weekend.

In the US, matches on the main NBC and CBS broadcast networks are free over the air with an antenna, and both networks carry big games through the season. Everything else of note sits inside a subscription, and any site claiming otherwise is not showing you a legal stream.

Watch football online free: the safe reading

Watch football online free is a popular search, and the safe way to read it is free coverage, not free piracy. Free coverage exists: cup matches, internationals, highlights shows and the free tiers of official apps. Add radio commentary, which is free for most matches in the UK on BBC Radio 5 Live and talkSPORT, and you can follow almost any game without paying.

What this site adds for free is the guide itself: fixtures, times, live scores and channel information, with no account and no downloads.

Football live streams and the Saturday blackout

One UK rule surprises visitors from abroad: football live streams of Saturday 3pm kick-offs are blacked out inside the UK, a long standing rule meant to protect attendances lower down the pyramid. Those matches still appear in our agenda with live scores, and they are covered live on radio.

Outside that slot, the full UK streaming picture is Sky Sports and TNT Sports for the leagues and European competitions, Premier Sports for La Liga and Scottish cup football, and the free broadcasters for the FA Cup.

How to use this guide on a matchday

Start on the homepage agenda, which orders today's matches by competition with the Premier League first. Use the search box to jump to your team, or open your team's page for its full fixture list across every competition.

While matches are in play, scores refresh every minute with a LIVE pill and the scorers, so the page works as a second screen next to whichever official stream you are watching.