The Los Angeles Football Club, which begins its inaugural season in March, has announced a multi-year partnership with YouTube TV that will make the streaming service the exclusive home for all of the team’s locally televised English-language matches.
The partnership, which marks a first in North American professional sports, has those matches geo-fenced and featured on a designated YouTube TV channel available in the Los Angeles market. Broadcasts will feature 30-minute pregame and postgame shows from the YouTube TV Studio set at Banc of California Stadium, and the channel also includes original programming and content.
YouTube TV will carry all nationally televised LAFC matches on ESPN, FOX and FS1 — channels already included in the base $35 per month subscription service.