List of FIFA World Cup broadcasters

The FIFA World Cup was first broadcast on television in 1954 and is now the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games. ^[1] 715.2 million individuals watched the final match of the 2006 tournament (representing 11 percent of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers. ^[2]

Europe

Albania

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Albanian	1962–1990	RTSH (RTSH Televizioni)
	1994–2002	RTSH (TVSH)
	2006	Top Channel, SuperSport
	2010	RTSH (TVSH and TVSH2), Top Channel and SuperSport
	2014	RTSH (TVSH, TVSH2 and RTSH Sport), Top Channel and SuperSport
	2018–present	RTSH (RTSH1, RTSH2, RTSH3 and RTSH Sport)

Andorra

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1954–1962	RTF
	1966–1974	ORTF
	1978–1986	TF1
	1978–1990	Antenne 2, FR3
	1994–1998, 2010	France Télévisions
	1998, 2006–2010	Canal+
	2002–2006	Eurosport France
	2006	M6
	2014–present	beIN Sports
Spanish	1962–1998, 2022–present	TVE
	2002	Antena 3 and Vía Digital
	2006	laSexta
	2006–2010	Digital+
	2006–2018	Cuatro
	2010–2018	Telecinco
	2014	Gol Televisión
	2018	Be Mad TV

Armenia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Armenian	1994	Armenian Television (Channel 1 and Channel 2)
	1998	Armenian Television (Armenia 1 and Nork TV)
	2002	Public Television Company of Armenia (Armenia 1)
	2006	Public Television Company of Armenia (Armenia 1 and Nor Alik)
	2010	Public Television Company of Armenia (Armenia 1 and Ararat TV)
	2014–2026	Public Television Company of Armenia (Armenia 1)

Austria

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
German	1958	ORF (ORF Fernsehen)
	1962–1966	ORF (ORF Fernsehen and ORF Versuchsprogramm)
	1970–1990	ORF (ORF Fernsehen 1 and ORF Fernsehen 2)
	1994	ORF (ORF 1 and ORF 2)
	1998	ORF (ORF 1, ORF 2, TW1 and ORF SAT)
	2002	ORF (ORF 1, ORF 2 and TW1)
	2006–2010	ORF (ORF 1, ORF 2 and ORF Sport Plus)
	2014–2018	ORF (ORF eins, ORF 2, ORF III, ORF Sport +)
	2022–present	ORF (ORF 1 (39 matches)); ServusTV (25 matches)

Azerbaijan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Azerbaijani	1994–1998, 2014–present	Azerbaijan Television
	2002–2010	Lider TV
	2014–present	İTV
	2022–present	CBC Sport

Belarus

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Belarusian	1994–present	BTRC

Belgium and Luxembourg

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1954–present	La Une
		Tipik
		RTBF
Dutch		VRT
		Sporza
		Ketnet
		Canvas
		VRT Max
		Eén

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Bosnian	1994	RTV BiH
	1998	BHT
	2002–present	BHRT

Bulgaria

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Bulgarian	1962–present	BNT
	2022	Diema, Gong.bg, NOVA

Burundi

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	2018–present	SuperSport

Croatia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Croatian	1994–present	HRT pol

Cyprus

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Greek	1962–present	CyBC

Czech Republic

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Czech	1994–present	ČT
	2022	TV Nova

Denmark

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Danish	1954–present	DR
	2002–present	TV 2

Estonia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Estonian	1994–present	ETV

Finland

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Finnish	1962–present	Yle
	1994–1998	MTV3

France

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1954–1962	RTF
	1966–1974	ORTF
	1978–present	TF1
	1978–1990	Antenne 2, FR3
	1994–1998, 2010	France Télévisions
	1998, 2006–2010	Canal+
	2002–2006	Eurosport France
	2006	M6
	2014–present	beIN Sports

Germany

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
German	1994–present	ARD and ZDF
	2002–2010	Premiere/Sky
	2010	RTL
	2014–2018	Sky Sport
	2022–present	Deutsche Telekom

Georgia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Georgian	1994–present	GPB

Greece

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Greek	1966–2010	ERT
	2014	NERIT
	2018	ERT
	2022	ANT1

Hungary

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Hungarian	1958–2002 and 2010–present	MTV
	2006	RTL Klub

Iceland

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Icelandic	1970–2002 and 2010–present	RÚV
	2006	Sýn
	2010	Stöð 2 Sport

Ireland

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English Irish	1962–present	RTÉ

Italy and San Marino

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Italian	1954–2014, 2022–present	RAI
	2006–2014	Sky Sport
	2018	Mediaset

Kosovo (Serbia)

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Serbian	1994–present	RTS1, RTS2

Latvia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Latvian	1994–present	LTV

Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
German, French, Italian, Romansh	1954–present	SRG SSR

Lithuania

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Lithuanian	1994–1998, 2006–present	LRT
	2002	TV4
	2010	LNK

Luxemborg

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1954–present	RTBF
Dutch		VRT

Malta

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Maltese	2006	Melita Sports
	2010	PBS (46 matches), Melita Sports (all matches)
	2014–present	PBS

Moldova

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Romanian	1994–present	TRM

Montenegro

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Montenegrin	2006	TV In
	2010–present	RTCG

Netherlands

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Dutch	1966	NTS
	1970–present	NOS

North Macedonia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Macedonian	1994–present	MRT
Serbian	2022–present	Arena Sport

Norway

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Norwegian	1954–present	NRK
	2002–present:	TV 2

Poland

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Polish	1966	TP (old TVP name)
	1970	TP (old TVP name) (final only, on a three-day tape-delay)
	1974–1998	TVP
	2002–2006	TVP (12 matches in 2002, 32 matches in 2006) and Polsat Sport (all 64 matches)
	2010–present	TVP (all 64 matches)

Portugal

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1962–1966	RTP
	1970–1974	RTP (RTP I Programa and RTP II Programa)
	1974–2026	RTP Madeira (in Madeira)
	1978–2026	RTP Açores (in Azores)
	1978–1986	RTP (RTP1 and RTP2)
	1990	RTP (RTP Canal 1 and RTP Canal 2)
	1994	RTP (Canal 1 and TV2)
	1998	RTP (RTP1 and RTP2)
	2002	RTP (RTP1 and RTP2) Sport TV PortugalTV
	2006	RTP (RTP1 and 2) SIC Sport TV PortugalTV
	2010–2014	RTP (RTP1 and RTP2) Sport TV PortugalTV TVI
	2018	RTP (RTP1, RTP2 and RTP3) SIC Sport TV PortugalTV TVI
	2022–present	RTP (RTP1, RTP2 and RTP3) SIC Sport TV TVI

Romania

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Romanian	1958–present	TVR

Russia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Russian	1994	Channel One Ostankino, Russia-1
	1998–2006	Channel One, VGTRK
	2010	Channel One (26 matches), VGTRK (38 matches)
	2014	Channel One, VGTRK
	2018	Channel One, VGTRK, Match TV
	2022	Match TV

Serbia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Serbian	1994–present	RTS
	2022–present	Arena Sport

Slovakia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Slovak	1994–2010	STV
	2014–present	RTVS

Slovenia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Slovene	1994–present:	RTVSLO

Spain

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1962–1998, 2022–present	TVE
	2002	Antena 3 and Vía Digital
	2006	laSexta
	2006–2010	Digital+
	2006–2018	Cuatro
	2010–2018	Telecinco
	2014; 2022	Gol Televisión (airs on OTT Gol Mundial for 2022)
	2018	Be Mad TV

Sweden

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Swedish	1958–1978	SRTV
	1982–present	SVT
	2006–present	TV4

Turkey

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Turkish	1970–2002, 2010–present	TRT
	2006	Kanal 1

Ukraine

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Ukrainian	1994–2002, 2010–present	NTU
	2006	Inter, ICTV

United Kingdom

Over 100 nations have provided wall-to-wall coverage since the communications satellite launchings allowed for worldwide coverage beginning in 1966. European coverage of the World Cup has been extensive since 1954 (though with the World Cup held in Chile in 1962, much of the Euro coverage that year was tape-delayed).

Broadcasts of the qualification for the World Cup Finals for England is currently held by ITV (terrestrial, home and away matches) with Sky holding rights for home and away matches for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These were previously held by the BBC but BBC have highlights of each home nation in their respective nation so BBC Scotland show Scotland highlights, BBC Wales show Wales highlights and BBC Northern Ireland show NI highlights.

However, coverage of the World Cup Finals is on a government mandated 'protected' list meaning it must be shown on free-to-air terrestrial television (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five) as opposed to satellite or cable television. ^[3] Although only one broadcaster is required, the two biggest terrestrial operators, the BBC and ITV, have always made a joint bid for coverage with broadcast of the Home Nations matches (particularly England) alternating between the broadcasters up to the later stages of the tournament. This is believed to prevent an extremely expensive bidding war for coverage between the two networks, with the current agreement running until the 2022 tournament.

In addition, when matches involved Scotland or Northern Ireland the BBC or ITV franchise holder in that area (Scottish TV, Grampian, Border or Ulster / UTV) would provide their own commentary team and presenters for those games.

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	1966–1982	BBC BBC1, BBC2 ITV
	1986–1990	BBC BBC1, BBC Two, S4C ITV
	1994	BBC BBC1, BBC2, S4C ITV Eurosport
	1998	BBC BBC One, BBC Two, S4C ITV
	2002–2010	BBC BBC One, BBC Two, S4C ITV ITV1, ITV2, ITV4
	2014–present	BBC BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, S4C ITV ITV1, ITV4

Year	Channel	Commentators	Co-Commentators	Presenters	Pundits
2022	BBC	Guy Mowbray Steve Wilson Jonathan Pearce Steve Bower Robyn Cowen Pien Meulensteen	Martin Keown Danny Murphy Jermaine Jenas Stephen Warnock Dion Dublin Danny Gabbidon	Gary Lineker Mark Chapman Gabby Logan	Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand, Jermaine Jenas, Micah Richards, Alex Scott, Ian Rush, Ashley Williams, Vincent Kompany, Didier Drogba, Laura Georges, Jürgen Klinsmann, Mauricio Pochettino, Mark Schwarzer, Gilberto Silva, and Pablo Zabaleta
	ITV	Sam Matterface Jon Champion Clive Tyldesley Seb Hutchinson Joe Speight Tom Gayle	Lee Dixon Ally McCoist John Hartson Andros Townsend	Mark Pougatch Laura Woods Seema Jaswal	Gary Neville, Ian Wright, Graeme Souness, Roy Keane, Joe Cole, Nigel de Jong, Hal Robson-Kanu, Nadia Nadim, Eniola Aluko, Karen Carney, and Peter Walton (Rules)
2018	BBC	Guy Mowbray Steve Wilson Jonathan Pearce Steve Bower Simon Brotherton Vicki Sparks	Martin Keown Danny Murphy Mark Lawrenson Kevin Kilbane Jermaine Jenas	Gary Lineker Mark Chapman Dan Walker	Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand, Jürgen Klinsmann, Alex Scott, Frank Lampard, Jermaine Jenas, Phil Neville, Matt Upson, Cesc Fàbregas, Didier Drogba, and Pablo Zabaleta
	ITV	Clive Tyldesley Sam Matterface Jon Champion Joe Speight	Glenn Hoddle Gary Neville Lee Dixon Ally McCoist Iain Dowie	Mark Pougatch Jacqui Oatley	Gary Neville, Ian Wright, Lee Dixon, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Patrice Evra, Slaven Bilić, Eniola Aluko, Henrik Larsson, Martin O'Neill, and Mark Clattenburg (Rules)
2014	BBC	Guy Mowbray Steve Wilson Jonathan Pearce Simon Brotherton Steve Bower	Mark Lawrenson Martin Keown Kevin Kilbane Phil Neville Robbie Savage	Gary Lineker Mark Chapman Dan Walker	Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer, Danny Murphy, Rio Ferdinand, Juninho Paulista, Chris Waddle, Brad Friedel, Neil Lennon, Clarence Seedorf, and Thierry Henry
	ITV	Clive Tyldesley Sam Matterface Joe Speight	Andy Townsend Clarke Carlisle Lee Dixon	Adrian Chiles Matt Smith	Gus Poyet, Glenn Hoddle, Martin O'Neill, Fabio Cannavaro, Andros Townsend, Lee Dixon, Ian Wright, Gordon Strachan, and Patrick Vieira
2010	BBC	Guy Mowbray Steve Wilson Jonathan Pearce Simon Brotherton Steve Bower	Mark Lawrenson Mark Bright Mick McCarthy Martin Keown	Gary Lineker Colin Murray	Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer, Lee Dixon, Jürgen Klinsmann, Clarence Seedorf, Roy Hodgson, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gordon Strachan, and Harry Redknapp
	ITV	Clive Tyldesley Peter Drury Jon Champion Ian Crocker	Andy Townsend Jim Beglin Craig Burley Chris Coleman	Adrian Chiles Matt Smith	Andy Townsend, Robbie Earle, Gareth Southgate, Lucas Radebe, Francois Pienaar, Marcel Desailly, Edgar Davids, Kevin Keegan, and Patrick Vieira
2006	BBC	John Motson Steve Wilson Simon Brotherton Jonathan Pearce Guy Mowbray	Mark Lawrenson Mick McCarthy Gavin Peacock Mark Bright	Gary Lineker Ray Stubbs Adrian Chiles Manish Bhasin	Alan Hansen, Ian Wright, Lee Dixon, Alan Shearer, Martin O'Neill, Marcel Desailly, Leonardo Araújo, and Gordon Strachan
	ITV	Clive Tyldesley Peter Drury Jon Champion Peter Brackley	Andy Townsend Jim Beglin Gareth Southgate Clive Allen	Steve Rider Jim Rosenthal Matt Smith Gabby Logan	Ally McCoist, Gareth Southgate, Terry Venables, Ruud Gullit, David Pleat, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Jay-Jay Okocha, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley, Stuart Pearce, and Shane Warne
2002	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Steve Wilson Rob Maclean	Trevor Brooking Joe Royle Trevor Steven Efan Ekoku	Gary Lineker Ray Stubbs	Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Peter Schmeichel, Jamie Redknapp, Ian Wright, Martin O'Neill, David O'Leary, and Peter Reid
	ITV	Clive Tyldesley Peter Drury Jon Champion Peter Brackley Guy Mowbray	Ron Atkinson Graham Taylor David Pleat Jim Beglin Paul Elliott	Des Lynam Gabby Logan Jim Rosenthal Matt Smith Bob Wilson	Paul Gascoigne, Gary Neville, Terry Venables, Bobby Robson, Clive Allen, John Barnes, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Andy Townsend, Ally McCoist, Robbie Earle, and Barry Venison
1998	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Jon Champion Ron Jones John Murray Rob Maclean (Scotland)	Trevor Brooking David Pleat Chris Waddle	Des Lynam Gary Lineker	Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson, Jimmy Hill, David Ginola, Martin O'Neill, and Robbie Williams
	ITV	Brian Moore Clive Tyldesley Peter Drury Peter Brackley Garry McNee (Scotland)	Kevin Keegan Ron Atkinson Ian St John	Bob Wilson Jim Rosenthal	Alex Ferguson, Terry Venables, Barry Venison, John Barnes, Ruud Gullit, Ian Wright, David Baddiel, and Frank Skinner
1994	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Gerald Sinstadt Clive Tyldesley	Trevor Brooking Liam Brady John Fashanu Chris Waddle	Des Lynam Bob Wilson	Jimmy Hill, Alan Hansen, Terry Venables, Gary Lineker, David O'Leary, Steve Coppell, David Baddiel, and Frank Skinner
	ITV	Brian Moore Alan Parry Peter Brackley John Helm Rob Palmer	Ron Atkinson Kevin Keegan Trevor Francis	Matthew Lorenzo Tony Francis	Denis Law, Ray Wilkins, Don Howe, and Jack Charlton
1990	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Gerald Sinstadt Archie Macpherson (Scotland)	Bobby Charlton Trevor Brooking Liam Brady Gerald Sinstadt	Des Lynam Bob Wilson	Jimmy Hill and Kenny Dalglish
	ITV	Brian Moore Alan Parry John Helm Gerry Harrison Clive Tyldesley Jock Brown (Scotland)	Ron Atkinson Ian St John Trevor Francis Billy McNeill	Nick Owen Elton Welsby	Jimmy Greaves, Graham Taylor, Bobby Moore, Charlie Ntamark, Rodney Marsh, Emlyn Hughes, and Ossie Ardiles
1986	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Gerald Sinstadt Archie MacPherson David Icke	Jimmy Hill Trevor Brooking Bobby Charlton	Des Lynam Bob Wilson	Terry Venables, Lawrie McMenemy, Emlyn Hughes, Andy Gray, Martin O'Neill, and Alan Mullery
	ITV	Brian Moore Martin Tyler John Helm Peter Brackley Gerry Harrison Jock Brown (Scotland)	Ron Atkinson David Pleat Billy McNeill	Brian Moore	Brian Clough, Mick Channon, Bryan Hamilton, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan, and Jimmy Greaves
1982	BBC	John Motson Barry Davies Tony Gubba Alan Parry Des Lynam Archie Macpherson	Bobby Charlton Bobby Robson	David Coleman Jimmy Hill	Billy McNeill, Lawrie McMenemy, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Robson, Lou Macari, and Garth Crooks
	ITV	Martin Tyler Hugh Johns Gerry Harrison Gerald Sinstadt John Helm Nick Owen Jock Brown (Scotland)	Ron Atkinson Jack Charlton Brian Clough Denis Law Ian St John	Brian Moore	John Bond, Jimmy Greaves, George Best, and Mick Channon
1978	BBC	David Coleman Barry Davies John Motson Alan Weeks Archie Macpherson (Scotland)		Frank Bough	Jimmy Hill, Jock Stein, Lawrie McMenemy, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, John Bond, Trevor Brooking, Bob Wilson, Alan Ball, Jack Taylor, Billy Bremner, and Tommy Docherty
	ITV	Hugh Johns Gerry Harrison Gerald Sinstadt Martin Tyler Arthur Montford (Scotland)	Jack Charlton Ian St John Joe Harper (Scotland)	Brian Moore	Kevin Keegan, Pat Crerand, Brian Clough, Andy Gray, Johan Cryuff, Emlyn Hughes, and Peter Taylor
1974	BBC	David Coleman Alan Weeks Barry Davies John Motson Archie Macpherson (Scotland)		Frank Bough	Jimmy Hill, Jock Stein, Bill Shankly, Bobby Charlton, Lawrie McMenemy, and Frank McLintock
	ITV	Hugh Johns Keith Macklin Gerry Harrison Gerald Sinstadt Arthur Montford (Scotland)	Alf Ramsey	Brian Moore	Derek Dougan, Bobby Moncur, Pat Crerand, Malcolm Allison, Jack Charlton, and Brian Clough
1970	BBC	David Coleman Alan Weeks Kenneth Wolstenholme Barry Davies Idwal Robling		Frank Bough	Joe Mercer, Don Revie, Brian Clough, Noel Cantwell, Ian St John, Ray Wilson, Bob Wilson, Johnny Haynes, Walley Barnes, and Jim Finney
	ITV	Hugh Johns Gerry Harrison Gerald Sinstadt Roger Malone	Bobby Moore Billy Wright	Brian Moore Jimmy Hill	Derek Dougan, Pat Crerand, Malcolm Allison, Bob McNab
1966	BBC	Kenneth Wolstenholme David Coleman Frank Bough Walley Barnes Alan Weeks		David Coleman	Johnny Haynes, Danny Blanchflower, Tommy Docherty, Jimmy Hill, Arthur Ellis, Joe Mercer, Billy Wright
	ITV	Hugh Johns Barry Davies Gerry Loftus John Camkin

Notes

• In the 2006 World Cup, ITV showed two of England's three group games, with the BBC showing one. However, the BBC would then have shown England through to the final, had they made it; this would have been on an exclusive basis for the round of 16 and the quarter finals (the latter being the round where England were actually eliminated), with coverage of the semi-final and final being shared with ITV. ^[4] The same method was used for the 2010 World Cup, where ITV showed the first two England games, and the BBC would have shown the next two, with England's semi final shared on both channels and the Final as well, but with England eliminated in the second round, the BBC instead had the first choice of the two quarter finals, and ITV the choice of a semi final and the third place match, with both channels showing the Final.
• For the 2014 World Cup the BBC showed England's first match against Italy with ITV showing the other 2 matches against Uruguay and Costa Rica. BBC had first choice for the 2nd round while ITV had first choice quarter final so if England got to the Quarters, which they didn't, the match would have been exclusively live on ITV.
• For the 2018 World Cup the BBC showed England's first 2 games against Tunisia and Panama respectively with ITV showing the one remaining group stage match against Belgium. The BBC carried the quarterfinal with Sweden. ITV aired the semi-final against Croatia and the third-place play-off with Belgium.
• ITV have had several sponsors over the years. For the 1990 World Cup, in one of the first sponsorship deals in British TV history, coverage was sponsored by National Power. Coverage of the 1994 World Cup was sponsored by electronics company Panasonic, whilst car company Vauxhall sponsored the 1998 World Cup. This was the first year actual idents were shown, as opposed to just the company logo, and featured comical exchanges between players dubbed over in suitable accents. Travelex sponsored their coverage of the 2002 World Cup, and would also go on to sponsor their coverage of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. For the 2006 World Cup, there were two sponsors for the first time – Budweiser and EDF Energy. The latter would, like Travelex, go on to sponsor the 2007 Rugby World Cup along with Peugeot. In 2010, Hyundai and Lucozade Sport were the sponsors, with Hyundai having a Car World Cup tournament, which was eventually won by Spain. The former's stings were narrated by Peter Brackley. The 2014 World Cup had three sponsors for the first time, Sony, Carling and Santander. Carling would have a brief spell of sponsoring England matches on ITV, replacing Continental Tyres before being replaced by Screwfix. 2018 also had three, with Budweiser, adopting their international campaign, Volkswagen, with a series of idents about a confident man getting 'England Champions 2018' tattooed onto him, and Screwfix, sponsors of England's Qualifiers and Friendlies, with puns on famous England players performed by customers. The 2022 tournament on ITV will be sponsored by KFC and Google Pixel.

Former nations

Czechoslovakia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Czech Slovak	1954–1990	ČST

East Germany

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
German	1954–1970, 1990	DFF
	1974–1986	DDR-FS

Soviet Union

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Russian Ukrainian Belarusian Uzbek Kazakh Georgian Azerbaijani Lithuanian Moldavian Latvian Kyrgyz Tajik Armenian Turkmen Estonian	1958–1966	Central Television of the USSR CT USSR Programme 1, CT USSR Programme 2, CT USSR Programme 3 Armenian Television Channel 1, Baku Television Studio
	1970–1978	Central Television of the USSR CT USSR Programme 1, CT USSR Programme 2, CT USSR Programme 3 Armenian Television Channel 1, Azerbaijan Television
	1982–1990	Central Television of the USSR CT USSR Programme 1, CT USSR Programme 2, CT USSR Moscow Programme Armenian Television Channel 1, Azerbaijan Television

West Germany

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
German	1966–1990	ZDF
	1954–1986	DF

Yugoslavia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Serbo-Croatian Slovene Macedonian	1958–1990	JRT

Asia

Afghanistan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Pashto English	1982–2002	Radio Television Afghanistan
	2006–2010	Ariana Television Network
	2014	Ariana Television Network, Sony SIX, Seven3
	2018–2026	Ariana Television Network

Bahrain

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic English	1974–2014	Bahrain TV
	2018–2026	beIN Sports

Bangladesh

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Bengali English	1974–present	Bangladesh Television
	2014–2018	Maasranga Television
	2022	BTV, T Sports, GTV, Toffee Live

Bhutan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Dzongkha English	2002–2010	ESPN Star Sports
	2014–2018	Sony Six
	2018	Sony ESPN
	2022–present	Sports18

Brunei

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Malay English	1978–present	Radio Televisyen Brunei through RTB Perdana and RTB Aneka
	1986–1998	TV3 (all matches)
	1998	NTV7 (all matches)
	2006–present	Astro (all matches)

Cambodia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Khmer (1986–present) French (1970–1974)	1970	Télévision Royale Khmère (TVRK)
	1974	Télévision de la République Khmère (TVREK)
	1978–1982	none due to Khmer Rouge
	1986–2002	TVK
	2006–2014	CTN
	2018–present	CBS

China PR

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Chinese	1962–1974	Beijing Television
	1974	Beijing Television 2
	1978–present	CCTV (all matches in HD, full matches live on CCTV-1, CCTV-5 and CCTV-5+)
	1982–1990	CCTV-2
	1986–1994	CCTV-3
	1990–present	CCTV-1
	1994–2006	CCTV-4
	2006–present	CCTV-5
	2010	CCTV-HD
	2014–present	CCTV-5+
	2018–present	CCTV-4K
	2022–present	CCTV-16, CCTV-8K, Migu

East Timor

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese Tetum	2006–2014	RTTL
	2018–present	ETO Telco

Hong Kong

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English (free-to-air) Cantonese (pay subscription)	1970	TVB Pearl (selected matches)
	1974–1978	TVB Pearl and RTV-2 (selected matches in live telecast)
	1982–1986	TVB Pearl (all matches in live telecast)
	1990–1998	ATV World and TVB Pearl (all matches in live telecast)
	1998	Cantonese: TVB Jade (all matches in live telecast) English: TVB Pearl (all matches in live telecast)
	2002	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): ATV World (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) and TVB Pearl (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (Cable):Cable TV Hong Kong (all matches in live telecast)
	2006	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): ATV World (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals), TVB (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (Cable):Cable TV Hong Kong (all matches in live telecast)
	2010	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): ATV World (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals), TVB Pearl (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (Cable):Cable TV Hong Kong (all matches in live telecast)
	2014	TVB (all matches in live telecast) (22 matches in free-to-air terrestrial television; all matches in pay television)
	2018-2022	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): ViuTVsix (nineteen matches in live telecast) Subscription/Pay (IPTV): Now TV (all matches in live telecast)

India

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Hindi English Bengali Malayalam Tamil Telugu	1982–present	Doordarshan
	1994–2010	ESPN Asia, Star Sports
	2014–2018	Sony Pictures Sports Networks India
	2022–present	Viacom 18

Indonesia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Indonesian (studio [lower-alpha 1] only) English (play-by-play commentary)	1970	TVRI (black-and-white, recorded broadcast, selected delayed telecast on final) [5]
	1974	TVRI (black-and-white, recorded broadcast, selected delayed telecast on final) [5]
	1978	TVRI (black-and-white, recorded broadcast, selected delayed telecast on final) [5]
	1982	TVRI (colour, recorded broadcast, selected delayed telecast on opening match) [5]
	1986	TVRI (recorded broadcast, selected delayed telecast on semifinal and final) [5]
	1990	TVRI (10-matches) and RCTI (all matches live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	1994	TVRI (16-matches), TPI (16-matches), RCTI (12-matches) and SCTV (8-matches) (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	1998	TVRI (15-matches), RCTI (15-matches), SCTV (15-matches), TPI (14-matches), ANteve (15-matches) and Indosiar (15-matches) (all matches live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	2002	RCTI (64 matches includes 45 live telecast and 19 taped group stage matches)
	2006	SCTV (64 matches includes 56 live telecast and 8 taped group stage matches)
	2010	RCTI (46-matches) and Global TV (20-matches) (all matches live telecast), Telkomsel (all matches livestreaming) and MNC Vision (all matches pay television)
	2014	Visi Media Asia (ANTV (56-matches [lower-alpha 2] ), tvOne (56-matches [lower-alpha 2] ) and viva+ (all matches)), IndiHome (both broadcast all matches pay television respectively), Domikado and Genflix (both broadcast all matches in livestreaming respectively), K-Vision (all matches pay television) and Telkomsel (all matches livestreaming)
	2018	Trans Media (Trans TV (56-matches), Trans7 (16-matches) and Transvision (all matches)), Klix TV and IndiHome (all matches live telecast, pay television and livestreaming respectively), MNC Vision (all matches pay television), Telkomsel (all matches livestreaming) and K-Vision (all matches pay television)
	2022	Emtek (SCTV (56-matches), Indosiar (16-matches [lower-alpha 3] ), Moji and Mentari TV (selected group stage matches), Champions TV, Nex Parabola and Vidio (all matches)) (all matches live telecast, pay television and livestreaming respectively) [6] [7]

Iran

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Persian	1962–present	IRIB 3
	2002–2006	ART Sport
	2010	Al-Jazeera Sport
	2014–present	beIN Sports

Japan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Japanese	1970–1974	TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV)
	1978–1998	NHK General TV (JOAK-TV)
	1986–1990	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), Nippon Television (JOAX-TV), TBS (JOKR-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-TV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV) JAITS CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) NHK BS1, NHK BS2
	1994–1998	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), Nippon Television (JOAX-TV), TBS (JOKR-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-TV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV) JAITS MX-TV (JOMX-TV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, NHK BS1, NHK BS2, NHK Hi-Vision
	2002	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), Nippon Television (JOAX-TV), TBS (JORX-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-TV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV) JAITS Tokyo MX Television (JOMX-TV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, SKY PerfecTV!, NHK BS1, NHK BS2, NHK BS hi
	2006	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), Nippon Television (JOAX-TV), TBS Television (JORX-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-TV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV) JAITS Tokyo MX (JOMX-TV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, SKY PerfecTV!, NHK BS1, NHK BS2, NHK BS hi
	2010	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), Nippon Television (JOAX-TV), TBS Television (JORX-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-TV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-TV) JAITS Tokyo MX (JOMX-TV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, SKY PerfecTV!, NHK BS1, NHK BS2, NHK BS hi
	2014	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-DTV), Fuji Television (JOCX-DTV), Nippon Television (JOAX-DTV), TBS Television (JORX-DTV), TV Asahi (JOEX-DTV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-DTV) JAITS Tokyo MX (JOMX-DTV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, NHK BS1, NHK BS Premium
	2018	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-DTV), Fuji Television (JOCX-DTV), Nippon Television (JOAX-DTV), TBS Television (JORX-DTV), TV Asahi (JOEX-DTV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-DTV) JAITS Tokyo MX (JOMX-DTV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, NHK BS1, NHK BS Premium, NHK BS4K, NHK BS8K
	2022	Abema (all matches in live streaming for free); DAZN (3-minutes highlights of all matches), [8] [9] NHK General TV (JOAK-TV), Fuji Television (JOCX-TV), TV Asahi (JOEX-DTV)
	2026	Japan Consortium NHK General TV (JOAK-DTV), Fuji Television (JOCX-DTV), Nippon Television (JOAX-DTV), TBS Television (JORX-DTV), TV Asahi (JOEX-DTV), TV Tokyo (JOTX-DTV) JAITS Tokyo MX (JOMX-DTV), CTC (CL), GBS (ZF), GTV (ML), Sun Television (UH), tvk (KM), KBS (BR), MTV (MH), TVN (NM), TVS (US), GYT (GY), BBC (BL), WTV (OM) WOWOW, NHK BS1, NHK BS2K, NHK BS4K, NHK BS8K

Kazakhstan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Kazakh	1998–present	Qazsport

Kyrgyzstan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Kyrgyz	1994–2010, 2018–present	KTRK
	2014	NTS

Laos

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Lao	1986–2018	LNTV
	2014	TVLAO

Macau

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1986–present	TDM

Malaysia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Malay English	1966	Televisyen Malaysia Black and White (all matches)
	1970–1978	Radio Televisyen Malaysia Rangkaian Pertama, Rangkaian Kedua, RTM Network One and Network Two Black and White (all matches)
	1982	Radio Televisyen Malaysia RTM 1, RTM 2 (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively for 1982–2002)
	1986–1990	Radio Televisyen Malaysia RTM 1, RTM 2, TV3 (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	1994	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV1, TV2, TV3
	1998	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7 (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	2002	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7
	2006	Radio Televisyen Malaysia RTM1, RTM2 and NTV7 (47 matches [10] ), Astro (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	2010–2014	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV1, TV2 (35 matches [11] [12] ), Astro
	2018	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV1, TV2, RTM HD Sports, TV Okey (41 matches [13] ), Astro (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)
	2022–present	Radio Televisyen Malaysia TV2, TV Okey, Sukan RTM (27-matches live and 14-matches delayed [14] ), Astro (all matches in live telecast and highest full matches respectively)

Maldives

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Dhivehi English	1982–2014	TVM
	2014–present	Sony Pictures Networks

Myanmar

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Burmese	1982–present	MRTV (all matches for 1982–2010, 16 matches for 2014 and 2018 [15] )
	2014–present	Skynet Sports (ALL MATCHES)

Nepal

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Nepali	1986-2018	Sony, NTV, Kantipur Television, Action Sports
	2022	Himalaya Tv Premium, Himalaya TV

Pakistan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Urdu English	2014	PTV Sports Ten Sports
	2018	PTV Sports Ten Sports
	2022	A Sports

Philippines

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Filipino English	1970–2006	RPN
	2010	Studio 23 (all matches)
	2010–2014	Balls (all matches)
	2014–2018	ABS-CBN Sports and Action (all matches)
	2022–present	TAP Sports (all matches)

Saudi Arabia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic	2002–2006	ART Sport
	2010	Al-Jazeera Sport
	2014–present	beIN Sports

Singapore

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	1966–1974	Channel 5 Black and White (all matches)
	1974 Final	Channel 5 Colour
	1978	Channel 5 (all matches)
	1982	Channel 8 (opening match, delayed telecast in Mandarin and Tamil) and Channel 5 (final, recorded broadcast in English and Malay)
	1986–1994	Channel 12 (all matches)
	1998	Premiere 12 (all matches)
	2002	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): Channel 5 (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (Cable): Singapore Cable Vision (all matches in live telecast)
	2006	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): Channel 5 (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (Cable): StarHub Cable Vision (all matches in live telecast)
	2010	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): HD5 (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (IPTV): Singtel TV (all matches in live telecast) Subscription/Pay (Cable): StarHub TV (all matches in live telecast)
	2014	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): Sports on Okto (four matches includes opening matches, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (IPTV): Singtel TV (all matches in live telecast) Subscription/Pay (Cable): StarHub TV (all matches in live telecast)
	2018	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): Sports on Okto (nine matches includes six group stage, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (IPTV): Singtel TV / StarHub TV (all matches in live telecast)
	2022	Free-to-air (Terrestrial): Channel 5 (nine matches includes six group stage, semi-finals and finals) Subscription/Pay (IPTV): Singtel TV / StarHub TV (all matches in live telecast)

Sri Lanka

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Sinhala	1986–present	MTV Channel
	2014–2018	Sony Pictures Networks
	2022	MTV Channel

South Korea

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Korean	1994–present	SBS (all matches)
	1986–2006, 2014–present	KBS (all matches)
	1986–2006, 2014–present	MBC (all matches)

Taiwan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Chinese	2002–2014	Era Television
	2010–2018	ELTA TV [16]

Tajikistan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Tajik	1994–2014	TVT
	2018–present	Varzish TV and Futbol TV (all matches in live telecast)

Thailand

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Thai English	1970–1998	Television Pool of Thailand (Analog Terrestrial Black and White Television: Channel 4, Channel 7; Colour: Channel 3, Channel 5 (7 in BWTV), Channel 7, Channel 9 (4 in BWTV)) (all matches in live telecast)
	2002–2006	Dhospaak Communication Agency Company Limited; subsidiary company of Thai Beverages PCL. (Analog Terrestrial: Channel 3, Channel 5, Channel 7, Modernine TV (Channel 9), Channel 11) (all matches in live telecast)
	2010–2014	RS Public Company Limited (Terrestrial: Channel 3, Channel 5, Channel 7, Modernine TV, NBT (Channel 11); Satellite: RS Sunbox) (all matches in live telecast)
	2018	Channel 5 HD, Amarin TV, True4U and True Sport (all matches in live telecast)
	2022–present	SAT, NTBC and TrueVisions (all matches in live telecast)

Uzbekistan

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Uzbek Russian	1994–2014	NTRCU (all matches in live telecast)
	2018	UzReport TV and Futbol TV (all matches in live telecast)

Vietnam

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Vietnamese	1974	THVN9 (final only)
	1978–2010 and 2018	HTV
	1982–present	VTV
	2006–2010	VTC

Oceania

Australia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	1970–1986	ABC
	1970	Seven Network
	1986–present	SBS
	2002	Nine Network
	2010	ESPN
	2014	SBS
	2018	Optus Sport
	2022	SBS

New Zealand

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	2002–present	Sky
	1998–2014	TVNZ

Africa

Whole of Africa

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	2018	Kwesé Sports
	2022	SuperSport
French	2022	New World TV

Algeria

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic French	1966–1982	RTA
	1986–1998	ENTV
	2014–present	EPTV

Angola

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1978–2026	Televisão Pública de Angola
	1998–present	RTP África
	2018–present	Kwesé Sports, Canal+ Afrique, SuperSport, StarTimes, Girassol TV

Botswana

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	2018–present	SuperSport
Sepedi	2022	BTV

Benin & Burkina Faso

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	2022	Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin
		Radio Télévision du Burkina

Burundi

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Kirundi French Swahili English	1986–present	RTNB

Cape Verde

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1978–1986	TEVEC
	1990–1994	TNCV
	1998–present	RTC and RTP África

Egypt

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic	2002–2006	ART Sport
Arabic English	2010	Al-Jazeera Sport
	2014–present	beIN Sports

Equatorial Guinea

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese Spanish	1998–present	RTP África

Ghana

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	1974–present	GTV
	2018	Startimes

Guinea-Bissau

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1998–2026	RTP África

Libya

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic	1970–1998	LJBC

Mali

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1986–present	ORTM

Morocco

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic Tamazight	1958–1961	RTM1
	1962–present	SNRT Arryadia, Tamazight TV, Al Aoula [17]

Mozambique

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1998–2026	RTP África

Namibia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	1994–present	NBC

Niger

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1970–present	ORTN

São Tomé and Príncipe

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1998–present	RTP África

Senegal

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1966–present	RTS1

South Africa

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Afrikaans Amharic English Pidgin Swahili Portuguese Sotho Xhosa Zulu	2002–present	SuperSport
English Afrikaans Nguni Sotho	2002	e.tv
English	1978–1998 2006–present	SABC

Togo

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
French	1974–present	TVT

Tunisia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Arabic	1970–1986	RTT
	1990–1998	ERTT

North America

Canada

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English French Portuguese Italian Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Spanish	1954–1986	CBC Sports CBC Television/Télévision de Radio-Canada
	1990–2002	TSN
	2006	CTV , TSN , Omni Television
	2010	CBC Sports CBC Television/Radio-Canada Télévision, Telelatino, TLN en Español
	2014	CBC Sports CBC Television/Radio-Canada Télévision, TVA, Telelatino, TLN en Español, Fairchild TV, Talentvision
	2018–present	CTV, TSN/RDS TSN1, TSN2, TSN3, TSN4, TSN5, RDS, RDS2, RDS Info

English-language television

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentators	Reporters	Studio Hosts	Studio Analysts
2022	CTV TSN	Luke Wileman (Canada matches ONLY) English world feed (all other matches)	Steven Caldwell (Canada matches ONLY) English world feed (all other matches)	In Qatar: Matthew Scianitti Daniel Zakrzewski In Scarborough, Ontario: Corwin McCallum (social media)	In Doha, Qatar: Luke Wileman (lead) James Duthie Lindsay Hamilton In Scarborough, Ontario: Kelcey Brade Jennifer Hedger (Highlights Show and prime time rebroadcasts) Marissa Roberto (Instagram) Raegan Subban (Instagram)	In Doha, Qatar: Steven Caldwell Kevin Kilbane Julian de Guzman Tosaint Ricketts Janine Beckie In Scarborough, Ontario: Carmelina Moscato Joe Fletcher (rules analyst)
2018		English World Feed			Luke Wileman Andi Petrillo (Highlights Show)	Kristian Jack Steven Caldwell
2014	CBC			Brenda Irving David Amber	Scott Russell Andi Petrillo	Craig Forrest Nigel Reed Lloyd Barker John Herdman
2010				Brenda Irving Kim Brunhuber	Scott Russell Mitch Peacock	Jason de Vos Nigel Reed Bob Lenarduzzi John Collins

Notes

• CTV and TSN used their own announcers for all Canadian games during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. For all other matches they used the English World Feed.

French-language television

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentators	Reporters	Studio Hosts	Studio Analysts
2026	RDS
2022		In Montréal, Quebec: Claudine Douville (lead) Olivier Brett	In Montréal, Quebec: Jean Gounelle (lead) Patrick Leduc	In Qatar: Antonin Besner Meeker Guerrier Nicolas Landry	In Montréal, Quebec: Olivier Brett (lead) François-Etienne Corbin Émilie Duquette Sydney Fowo (social media) Jasmin Leroux (social media)	In Montréal, Quebec: Patrice Bernier (lead) Wandrille Lefèvre Valmie Ouellet Laurent Ciman Marinette Pichon Alexandre Da Rocha Marc Cassivi Amy Walsh Nick De Santis Jonathan Bourgault Philippe Eulaffroy Sonia Denoncourt (rules analyst)
2018		Claudine Douville Olivier Brett	Jean Gounelle Patrick Leduc		Olivier Brett	Patrick Leduc Valmie Ouellet

Mexico

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1958–1966	TSM XEW-TV Canal 2, XHGC-TV Canal 5
	1970	TSM XEW-TV Canal 2, XHGC-TV Canal 5, TIM XHTM-TV Canal 8
	1974–1982	Televisa XEW-TV Canal 2, XHGC-TV Canal 5, XHTM-TV Canal 8, TRM Canal 13
	1986–1990	Televisa El Canal de las Estrellas, XHGC-TV Canal 5, XEQ-TV Canal 9, Imevisión Red Nacional 13, Red Nacional 7
	1994	Televisa El Canal de las Estrellas, XHGC-TV Canal 5, XEQ-TV Canal 9, TV Azteca Canal Trece, TV 7
	1998	Televisa El Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, XEQ-TV Canal 9, TV Azteca TV 13, El 7 de Azteca, CNI CNI Canal 40, DirecTV
	2002	Televisa El Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, Galavisión, TV Azteca Azteca Trece, Azteca Siete, CNI CNI Canal 40, DirecTV
	2006	Televisa Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, Galavisión, TV Azteca Azteca Trece, Azteca Siete, Proyecto 40, Sky
	2010	Televisa Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, Galavisión, TDN, TV Azteca Azteca Trece, Azteca Siete, Proyecto 40, Sky
	2014	Televisa Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, Gala TV, TDN, TV Azteca Azteca Trece, Azteca Siete, Proyecto 40, Sky
	2018	Televisa Las Estrellas, Canal 5*, GalaTV, TDN, Univision TDN, TV Azteca Azteca Uno, Azteca Siete, ADN 40, A+, Sky
	2022–present	Televisa Las Estrellas, Canal 5*, NU9VE, TUDN, TV Azteca Azteca Uno, Azteca Siete, ADN 40, A Más, Sky

United States

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English Spanish	1966	NBC
	1970	ABC, SIN
	1974	CBS, SIN
	1978	SIN
	1982	ABC, ESPN, PBS, SIN
	1986	NBC, ESPN, SIN
	1990	TNT, Univision, Galavisión
	1994–1998	ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Univision, Galavisión
	2002–2010	ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Univision, TeleFutura, Galavisión
	2014	ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Univision, UniMás, Galavisión, Univision Deportes
	2018	Fox, FS1, Telemundo, Universo
	2022–2026	Fox, FS1, Telemundo, Universo, Peacock
	2030	TBA

English-language television

Finals

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Reporters(s)	Studio host(s)	Studio analyst(s)
2026	Fox
2022		John Strong	Stuart Holden	Jenny Taft and Geoff Shreeves	Rob Stone	Alexi Lalas, Clint Dempsey, and Landon Donovan Joe Machnik (rules analyst)
2018		John Strong	Stuart Holden	Jenny Taft and Geoff Shreeves	Rob Stone and Kate Abdo	Alexi Lalas, Kelly Smith, Clarence Seedorf, and Guus Hiddink Joe Machnik (rules analyst)
2014	ABC	Ian Darke	Steve McManaman	Jeremy Schaap	Mike Tirico and Bob Ley	Alexi Lalas, Santiago Solari, Michael Ballack, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Gilberto Silva, Alejandro Moreno, Taylor Twellman, and Kasey Keller
2010		Martin Tyler	Efan Ekoku		Chris Fowler and Bob Ley	Alexi Lalas, Steve McManaman, and Ruud Gullit
2006		Dave O'Brien	Marcelo Balboa		Brent Musburger	Eric Wynalda and Julie Foudy
2002		Jack Edwards	Ty Keough		Terry Gannon	Eric Wynalda and Giorgio Chinaglia
1998		Bob Ley	Seamus Malin		Brent Musburger	Eric Wynalda
1994		Roger Twibell	Seamus Malin and Rick Davis		Jim McKay	Desmond Armstrong
1990	TNT	Bob Neal	Mick Luckhurst		Ernie Johnson	Rick Davis
1986	NBC	Charlie Jones	Rick Davis and Paul Gardner		Don Criqui	Seamus Malin
1982	ABC	Jim McKay	Mario Machado and Paul Gardner		Jack Whitaker	Giorgio Chinaglia
1974	CBS (used BBC's feed)	David Coleman
1970	ABC	Jim McKay
1966	NBC	Jim Simpson

Notes

• The first American coverage of the World Cup consisted only of a previously filmed telecast of the 1966 Final on NBC. The Final was aired before their coverage of the Saturday Major League Baseball Game of the Week . NBC used the black & white BBC feed and aired it on a two-hour film delay. This was the first time soccer had been shown in the United States as a stand-alone broadcast. Previously, ABC's Wide World of Sports had shown England's Football Association Cup on as long as a two-week delay.
• 1970's coverage was usually week-old filmed highlights shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports .
• 1974's coverage also contained week-old filmed highlights on CBS Sports Spectacular .
• 1978 had no English language coverage on American television at all.

Other rounds

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Reporters	Studio hosts	Studio analysts
2026	Fox FS1
2022		John Strong (lead) Ian Darke (on loan from ESPN/ABC) Derek Rae (on loan from ESPN/ABC) JP Dellacamera Jacqui Oatley	Stuart Holden (lead) Landon Donovan Aly Wagner Cobi Jones Warren Barton Maurice Edu	Geoff Shreeves (on loan from Sky Sports UK) Tom Rinaldi Rodolfo Landeros Jenny Taft Melissa Ortiz (World Cup Now on Twitter)	Rob Stone Tom Rinaldi Jenny Taft Kate Abdo (World Cup Tonight) [18] Jimmy Conrad (World Cup Now on Twitter)	Alexi Lalas, Carli Lloyd, Clint Dempsey, [19] Landon Donovan, Maurice Edu, Aly Wagner, Stuart Holden, Kelly Smith, and Eniola Aluko Mark Clattenburg and Dr. Joe Machnik (rules analyst) Maurice Edu and Chad Johnson (World Cup Tonight) DaMarcus Beasley, Sacha Kljestan, Melissa Ortiz, Cobi Jones, Warren Barton, Derek Rae and Maurice Edu (World Cup Now on Twitter)
2018		In Russia: John Strong JP Dellacamera Derek Rae (Round of 16 and Quarterfinals) In Los Angeles: Derek Rae (group stage) Glenn Davis Mark Followill Jorge Pérez-Navarro (on loan from ESPN Deportes)	In Russia: Stuart Holden Tony Meola Aly Wagner (Round of 16 and Quarterfinals) In Los Angeles: Aly Wagner (group stage) Cobi Jones Warren Barton Mariano Trujillo	Geoff Shreeves (on loan from Sky Sports UK) Rachel Bonnetta (Digital) Sergey Gordeev(National Geographic) Maria Komandnaya Rodolfo Landeros Jenny Taft Grant Wahl (at-large)	Rob Stone (in Moscow) Kate Abdo (in Moscow) Fernando Fiore (World Cup Tonight, in Moscow) Ian Joy (in Los Angeles)	Alexi Lalas, Hernán Crespo, Clarence Seedorf, Moisés Muñoz, Fernando Fiore, Martin O'Neill, Guus Hiddink, Kelly Smith, and Ian Wright (in Moscow) Dr. Joe Machnik (rules analyst) Warren Barton, Cobi Jones, Mariano Trujillo and Aly Wagner (in Los Angeles)
2014	ESPN ESPN2 ABC	Ian Darke Jon Champion Derek Rae Adrian Healey Daniel Mann Fernando Palomo	Steve McManaman Taylor Twellman Stewart Robson Efan Ekoku Kasey Keller Alejandro Moreno Roberto Martínez Craig Burley	Jeremy Schaap Julie Foudy John Sutcliffe Bob Woodruff Rubens Pozzi	Mike Tirico Bob Ley Lynsey Hipgrave	Alexi Lalas, Steve McManaman, Michael Ballack, Alejandro Moreno, Kasey Keller, Gilberto Silva, Santiago Solari, Roberto Martínez, Taylor Twellman, and Ruud van Nistelrooy
2010		Martin Tyler Ian Darke Derek Rae Adrian Healey Jim Proudfoot	Efan Ekoku John Harkes Robbie Mustoe Ally McCoist Roberto Martínez	Jeremy Schaap Julie Foudy Darrell Currie Allen Hopkins Rob Stone Selema Masekela ESPN International: Andrew Orsatti (Australia) John Sutcliffe(Mexico) Dan Williams(South Africa)	Chris Fowler Mike Tirico Bob Ley	Alexi Lalas, Jürgen Klinsmann, Ruud Gullit, Steve McManaman, Shaun Bartlett, Tommy Smyth, and Roberto Martínez
2006		Dave O'Brien JP Dellacamera Rob Stone Glenn Davis Adrian Healey	Marcelo Balboa John Harkes Robin Fraser Shep Messing Tommy Smyth		Brent Musburger Rece Davis Dave Revsine	Alexi Lalas, Eric Wynalda, Giorgio Chinaglia, Julie Foudy, and Heather Mitts
2002		Jack Edwards JP Dellacamera Mike Hill Glenn Davis	Ty Keough Tommy Smyth Seamus Malin Shep Messing	Lisa Salters Veronica Paysee	Terry Gannon Rob Stone	Eric Wynalda and Giorgio Chinaglia
1998		Bob Ley Roger Twibell JP Dellacamera Derek Rae Phil Schoen	Seamus Malin Mike Hill Bill McDermott Tommy Smyth Ty Keough		Brent Musburger	Eric Wynalda
1994		Roger Twibell Al Trautwig Bob Carpenter Bob Ley Ian Darke Randy Hahn Jim Donovan	Seamus Malin Rick Davis Clive Charles Ty Keough Peter Vermes Ron Newman Bill McDermott		Jim McKay (ABC only) Al Trautwig (ABC's round of 16 only) Sharlene Hawkes (ESPN World Cup Tonight only)	Desmond Armstrong (ABC only) Alexi Lalas (quarterfinals) Mike Hill (ESPN World Cup Tonight only)
1990	TNT	Bob Neal JP Dellacamera Randy Hahn	Mick Luckhurst Rick Davis Ty Keough	Craig Sager Paul Ryden	Ernie Johnson
1986	NBC	Charlie Jones	Rick Davis and Paul Gardner		Don Criqui	Seamus Malin
	ESPN	JP Dellacamera Bob Ley	Seamus Malin Shep Messing
1982	PBS	Toby Charles
	ESPN	Bob Ley	Seamus Malin

Notes

• In 1982, PBS and ESPN provided the first thorough American television coverage of the FIFA World Cup. ABC aired the first live telecast of the final. ABC aired commercials during the live action. Meanwhile, PBS aired same day highlights of the top game of the day.
• 1986 marked the first time that the World Cup had extensive live cable and network television coverage in the United States. ESPN carried most of the weekday matches while NBC did weekend games. To be more specific, NBC aired seven matches, including the "Hand of God" quarterfinal, with broadcasters on-site. NBC's theme music for their 1986 coverage was Herb Alpert's "1980", from his 1979 album Rise . It was originally a cue meant for the ill-fated 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics broadcasts. Meanwhile, ESPN aired about 25 matches that year, all with broadcasters calling matches "off tube" (off monitor) from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Broadcasting Centre on 25 John Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• In 1990, the World Cup was covered exclusively by cable television on TNT in the United States and had many features about the host country, Italy.
• The 1994 American coverage had many firsts: The first with all of the matches televised, the first with no commercial interruptions during live action, and the first to feature an on-screen score & time box.
• In 1998, all of the matches were televised in the United States live for the first time.
• The 2002 American coverage had 59 matches live, and 5 rebroadcasts on ABC, with coverage from Japan and South Korea carried live in the American late night graveyard slot.
• The 2006 coverage from Germany was fully live as well.
  • Dave O'Brien joined Marcelo Balboa on the primary broadcast team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup coverage on ESPN and ABC Sports, despite having no experience calling soccer matches prior to that year. Because The Walt Disney Company, owner of both television outlets, retained control over on-air talent, the appointment of O'Brien as the main play-by-play voice was made over the objections of Soccer United Marketing, who wanted JP Dellacamera to continue in that role. Disney stated that their broadcast strategy was intended, in voice and style, to target the vast majority of Americans who do not follow the sport on a regular basis. Mispronunciation and incorrect addressing of names, misuse of soccer terminology, and lack of insight into tactics and history plagued the telecasts, resulting in heavy criticism from English-speaking soccer fans, many of whom ended up watching the games on Univision instead. ^{[20] [21]}
• The 2010 coverage from South Africa introduced ESPN 3D for 25 matches.
• The 2014 coverage was available on mobile devices and tablets via the WatchESPN application, as well as on Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles, live and on-demand, via the ESPN on Xbox Live application.
• Starting in 2018, coverage is available on connected TVs, mobile devices and tablets via the Fox Sports App.

Spanish-language television

Year	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Reporter(s)	Studio host(s)	Studio analysts
2026	Telemundo Universo NBCSN (simulcast of selected matches, 2018 only) Peacock (streaming in Spanish; 2022–present)
2022		Andrés Cantor (lead) Sammy Sadovnik Copán Álvarez Jorge D. Calvo	Manuel Sol (lead) Eduardo Biscayart Tab Ramos Claudio Borghi (final match) Amelia Valverde Carlos Tenorio Diego Forlán Fernando Hierro Mauro Silva Maxi Rodríguez Miguel Herrera Natalia Astrain Sebastián Abreu Juan Pablo Sorín Diana Rincón (on loan from ESPN South America)	Arantza Fernández Carlos Yustis Karim Mendiburu Pablo Aguabella Antonella González Veronica Brunati	In Qatar: Miguel Gurwitz Ana Jurka Carlota Vizmanos Copán Alvarez Diana Rincón (on loan from ESPN South America) In Miami, Florida(Zona Mixta: Edición Mundial): Daniella López Guajardo (on loan from Fox Deportes) Verónica Rodríguez	In Qatar: Carlos Hermosillo Óscar Pérez Tab Ramos Claudio Borghi Amelia Valverde Carlos Tenorio Diego Forlán Fernando Hierro Mauro Silva Maxi Rodríguez Miguel Herrera Natalia Astrain Sebastián Abreu Juan Pablo Sorín Diana Rincón (on loan from ESPN South America) Horacio Elizondo (rules analyst) Jaime Herrera Garduño (rules analyst) In Miami, Florida:(Peacock 24/7 channel) Carmen Bouqín Diego Arrioja Piero Menor Luis Baraldi Pablo Alsina Pablo Mariño María Sánchez
2018		Andrés Cantor Sammy Sadovnik Copán Álvarez Erasmo Provenza	Manuel Sol Carlos Hermosillo Eduardo Biscayart Tab Ramos Claudio Borghi Juan Pablo Ángel Juan Pablo Sorín Diego Forlán Viviana Vila Teófilo Cubillas Jesús Ramírez Rolando Fonseca	Carlos Yustis Carlota Vizmanos Kaziro Aoyama Pablo Aguabella	In Moscow: Miguel Gurwitz Ana Jurka In Miami, Florida: Jacqueline Bracamontes Karim Mendiburu	Carlos Hermosillo Claudio Borghi Juan Pablo Ángel Juan Pablo Sorín Diego Forlán Teófilo Cubillas Jesús Ramírez Rolando Fonseca Horacio Elizondo (rules analyst)
2014	Galavisión UniMás (Telefutura; 2002–2014) Univision UDN (now TUDN; 2014 only)	Pablo Ramirez Jorge Pérez-Navarro Luis Omar Tapia Enrique Bermudez de la Serna José Luis López Salido Edgar Martinez	Jesus Bracamontes Diego Balado Félix Fernández Mauro Camoranesi Marcelo Balboa Carlos Pavón Ramón Ramírez Hristo Stoichkov	Rodolfo Landeros Jorge Calvo Diana Alvarado	Fernando Fiore Alejandro Berry Ivan Kazansew Lindsay Casinelli
2010		Pablo Ramirez Jorge Pérez-Navarro Jorge Ottati	Jesus Bracamontes José Luis Chilavert Diego Balado		Fernando Fiore
2006		Pablo Ramirez Jorge Pérez-Navarro Bruno Vain	Jesus Bracamontes José Luis Chilavert Enrique Borja		Fernando Fiore
2002		Pablo Ramirez Jorge Pérez-Navarro Luis Omar Tapia	Jesus Bracamontes Carlos Reinoso Ricardo Mayorga		Fernando Fiore
1998		Andrés Cantor	Norberto Longo
1994		Andrés Cantor	Norberto Longo
1990		Andrés Cantor	Norberto Longo
1986	SIN	Tony Tirado	Norberto Longo Jorge Berry
1982	SIN (used Televisa's (Mexico) feed)	Gerardo Pena
1978		Tony Tirado	Enrique Gratas
1974		Tony Tirado
1970		Tony Tirado

Notes

• From 2002 to 2010, José Luis Chilavert joined Pablo Ramirez and Jesus Bracamontes on the booth during the Univision broadcast of the FIFA World Cup Final match.
• Starting in 2018, coverage will be available on connected TVs, mobile devices and tablets via NBC Sports and Telemundo Deportes' En Vivo apps respectively, and on home devices and video game consoles such as the Xbox One, PS4, and Roku via the Fox Sports app and Fox Sports Go.

Central America

Costa Rica

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1966	Teletica Canal 7 and Telecentro Canal 6 (Deferred all games in both channels)
	1970	Telenac Canal 2
	1974–1982	Teletica Canal 7 and Telecentro Canal 6
	1986	Teletica Canal 7, Telecentro Canal 6 and TV2 Telenac
	1990	Teletica Canal 7, Telecentro Canal 6 and TV2 Univisión
	1994	Teletica Canal 7, Telecentro Canal 6 and Canal 2
	1998	Repretel Canal 6, Canal 9, Canal 11, Teletica Teletica Canal 7, TV2
	2002–2006	Repretel Canal 4, Canal 6, Canal 11
	2010–2014	Repretel Canal 4, Canal 6, Canal 11, Teletica Teletica Canal 7, XPERTV
	2018–present	Teletica Teletica Canal 7, TD Más

El Salvador

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1982	YSR-TV Canal 2
	1986–present	TCS Canal 4

Guatemala

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1990	Canal 3, Televisiete
	1994–2014	Canal 3, Televisiete, Teleonce, Trecevisión
	2018	TV Azteca Guate
	2022–present	TV Azteca Guate, A+ Guate

Honduras

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1966–1994	Canal 5
	1998–2006	Televicentro Telesistema, Canal 5, Telecadena 7 y 4
	2010–2014	Televicentro Telesistema, Canal 5, Telecadena 7 y 4, Grupo VTV VTV
	2018–present	Televicentro TSi, Canal 5, Telecadena 7 y 4, Mega Clásicos

Nicaragua

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1994	Televicentro
	1998–2018	Televicentro, Canal 10
	2022–present	Canal 10

Panama

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1966–2002	RPC Televisión, TVN
	2006–2010	Medcom RPC Televisión, TVN Media TVN, TVMax
	2014–present	Medcom RPC Televisión, Telemetro, Cable Onda Sports, TVN Media TVN, TVMax

Caribbean

Dominican Republic

Language	Edition	Broadcasters
Spanish	1962–1982	Rahintel
	1986	Color Visión
	1990	Color Visión, Radio Televisión Dominicana Canal 4
	1994	Telesistema 11
	1998	Telesistema 11, DirecTV
	2002	Telemicro, Digital 15, DirecTV
	2006	CDN 37, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	Telecentro, Red Nacional De Noticias, DirecTV Sports
	2014	Grupo de Medios Telemicro Telemicro, Digital 15, DirecTV Sports
	2018	Antena 7, Antena 21, DirecTV Sports
	2022–present	Multimedios del Caribe CDN 37, CDN Deportes

South America

Argentina

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1958	Canal 7
	1962	Canal 7, Río de La Plata Televisión Canal 13
	1966–1970	Canal 7, Canal 13
	1974	Televisión Argentina Canal 7, Canal 13
	1978	Argentina 78 Televisión
	1982	Canal 2, Argentina Televisora Color, Canal 9, Canal Once, Canal 13
	1986	Canal 2, Argentina Televisora Color, Canal 9 Libertad, Canal Once, Canal 13
	1990	Argentina Televisora Color
	1994	América 2, Argentina Televisora Color, Canal 9 Libertad, Telefe, Canal 13, Telered
	1998	América Televisión, Argentina Televisora Color, Canal 9 Libertad, Telefe, Canal 13, DirecTV, TyC Sports, TyC Max, Telered, Canal 13 Multicanal
	2002	América Televisión, Canal Siete, Canal Trece, TyC Sports, TyC Max, DirecTV
	2006	América Televisión, Canal Siete Argentina, Canal 9, Telefe, Canal Trece, TyC Sports, TyC Max, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	TV Pública Digital, Telefe, El Trece, TyC Sports, TyC Max, DirecTV Sports
	2014	TV Pública, TyC Sports, TyC Sports Señal Alternativa, DirecTV Sports
	2018	Televisión Pública Argentina, TyC Sports, TyC Sports 2, TyC Sports 3, DirecTV Sports
	2022–present	Televisión Pública, TyC Sports, TyC Sports 2, TyC Sports 3, DirecTV Sports

Belize

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
English	2022	TNC: The National Channel
Spanish	2014–present	DirecTV Sports

Bolivia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1982	Canal 7 Televisión Boliviana
	1986	Canal 7 Televisión Boliviana, Canal 11 - Unitel Paceña de Televisión Canal 9
	1990–1994	Red UNO, Canal 7 Televisión Boliviana, Canal 11 - Unitel, Red ABC, Red ATB
	1998	Red UNO, Canal 7 Televisión Boliviana, Canal 11 - Unitel Bolivisión, Red ATB, DirecTV
	2002	Red UNO, Televisión Boliviana, Unitel, DirecTV
	2006	Red UNO, Televisión Boliviana, Unitel, RTP, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	Red UNO, Bolivia TV, Unitel, Red ATB, DirecTV Sports
	2014–present	Red UNO, Bolivia TV, Unitel, DirecTV Sports, Tigo Sports

Brazil

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Portuguese	1958–1962	TV Tupi, TV Record, TV Rio
	1966	Rede Globo, TV Tupi, TV Record, TV Rio, TV Excelsior, TV Continental
	1970	Rede Globo, TV Tupi, TV Record, TV Rio, TV Bandeirantes, TV Excelsior, TV Gazeta, TV Continental, TV Cultura
	1974	Rede Globo, TV Tupi, TV Record, TV Bandeirantes, TV Gazeta, TV Cultura
	1978	Rede Globo, TV Tupi, TV Record, TVS Rio, TV Bandeirantes, TV Gazeta, TV Cultura, TVE
	1982	Rede Globo, TV Cultura, TVE
	1986	Rede Globo, TV Record, SBT, Rede Bandeirantes, Rede Manchete
	1990	Rede Globo, SBT, Rede Bandeirantes, Rede Manchete
	1994	Rede Globo, SBT, Rede Bandeirantes, SporTV
	1998	Rede Globo, SBT, Rede Record, Rede Bandeirantes, Rede Manchete, SporTV, Premiere, ESPN Brasil, DirecTV
	2002	Rede Globo, SporTV, Premiere Esportes
	2006	Rede Globo, SporTV, ESPN Brasil, BandSports, DirecTV
	2010	Rede Globo, Rede Bandeirantes, SporTV, ESPN Brasil, BandSports
	2014	Rede Globo, Rede Bandeirantes, SporTV, ESPN Brasil, BandSports, Fox Sports
	2018	Rede Globo, SporTV, Fox Sports
	2022–present	TV Globo, SporTV, Grupo Globo

Chile

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1962	Canal 9 de la Universidad de Chile, Canal 13 de la U. C. de Chile
	1966	Canal 13 de la U. C. de Chile
	1970	Televisión Nacional de Chile, Canal 13 de la U. C. de Chile
	1974	Televisión Nacional de Chile
	1978	Televisión Nacional de Chile, Canal 13 - UCTV, Red de Televisión de la U. del N.
	1982–1986	Televisión Nacional de Chile, Canal 13 - UCTV, Telenorte
	1990–1994	Televisión Nacional de Chile, Canal 13 - UCTV
	1998	TVN, Canal 13 - UCTV, Chilevisión, DirecTV
	2002	TVN, Canal 13, DirecTV
	2006	TVN, Mega, Red Televisión, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	TVN, DirecTV Sports
	2014	TVN, Canal 13, DirecTV Sports
	2018	TVN, Mega, Canal 13, DirecTV Sports
	2022	Chilevisión, Canal 13, DirecTV Sports
	2026–present	TVN, Chilevisión, Canal 13, DirecTV Sports

Colombia

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1962	Televisora Nacional de Colombia
	1966–1970	Inravisión Canal Nacional
	1974–1978	Inravisión Primera Cadena, Inravisión Segunda Cadena, Inravisión Tercera Cadena Color
	1982–1990	Inravisión Cadena 1, Inravisión Cadena 2, Inravisión Cadena 3
	1994	Inravisión Cadena Uno, Canal A, Inravisión Canal 3
	1998	Canal Uno, Canal A, Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, DirecTV
	2002	Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, DirecTV
	2006	Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, DirecTV Sports
	2014–present	Caracol Televisión, RCN Televisión, DirecTV Sports,

Ecuador

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1974	Telecentro
	1978	Ecuavisa, Televisora Nacional Canal 8, Teleamazonas, Telecuatro, Telecentro, Telenacional
	1982	Ecuavisa, Televisora Nacional Canal 8, Canal 13, Ecuavisa Quito UHF Canal 23, Teleamazonas, Telecuatro, Telecentro, Telenacional
	1986	Ecuavisa, Televisora Nacional Canal 8, Canal 13, Ecuavisa Quito UHF Canal 23, Teleamazonas, Telecuatro, Telecentro, Gamavisión, Manavisión
	1990	Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, Telesistema TV4, Telecentro, Gamavisión
	1994	Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, Telesistema, TC Televisión, Gamavisión, SíTV
	1998	Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas, Telesistema, TC Televisión, Gamavisión, DirecTV
	2002	Teleamazonas, Telesistema, DirecTV
	2006	Ecuavisa, Teleamazonas TeVe, RedTeleSistema, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	TC Televisión, Gama TV, DirecTV Sports
	2014	TC Televisión, Gama TV, Oromar Televisión, DirecTV Sports
	2018	RTS, DirecTV Sports
	2022–present	Teleamazonas, DirecTV Sports, El Canal del Fútbol

Paraguay

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970	Canal 4, Canal 9, RCC
	1974–1978	Canal 4 Acción, Canal 9 Cerro Corá
	1982	Canal 4 Acción Canal 9 Cerro Corá, Canal 13 RPT, Canal 2 Teledos, SICOM, Canal 5 TV Color, Canal 11 TV Color, Red Nacional de Televisión
	1986	Red Telefuturo, Red SNT, Canal 13 RPT, Canal 2 Teledos, SICOM TV, Canal 5 TV Color, Canal 11 TV Color, Red Nacional de Televisión
	1990	Red SNT, Canal 13 RPC, Red Nacional de Televisión
	1994	Telefuturo 4, SNT 9, Canal 13 RPC, Canal 2 Tevedos, PTC, Canal 5 Paravisión, Red Paraguaya de Televisión
	1998	SNT Continental, Telefuturo, Canal 13 RPC, Tevedos, PTC, Canal 5 Paravision, Canal 11 La Tele, Red Paraguaya de Televisión, DirecTV
	2002	Red Paraguaya de Televisión, DirecTV
	2006	SNT Cerro Corá, Telefuturo, El trece, Red Guaraní, Canal Catorce, Paravisión, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	SNT Cerro Corá, Telefuturo, El trece, Red Guaraní, TV Pública Paraguay, Paravisión, LaTele, DirecTV Sports
	2014	SNT, Telefuturo, El trece, Red Guaraní, Paravisión, LaTele, Paraguay TV, DirecTV Sports, Tigo Sports, Movistar Sports
	2018	SNT, Telefuturo, Canal 13, Red Guaraní, Paravisión, LaTele, Paraguay TV, DirecTV Sports, Tigo Sports, Movistar Sports
	2022–present	SNT, Telefuturo, Trece, Paravisión, LaTele, Paraguay TV, DirecTV Sports, Tigo Sports, Movistar Sports

Peru

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1974	América Televisión
	1978–1998	América Televisión, Panamericana Televisión
	2002	ATV
	2006	ATV, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010–2014	ATV, DirecTV Sports
	2018–2022	Latina, DirecTV Sports

Uruguay

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970–1974	Monte Carlo Televisión, Canal 5 SODRE, Tele12, Canal 10
	1978	Monte Carlo Televisión, Canal 5 SODRE Televisión, Tele12, Canal 10
	1982–1994	Canal 3, Monte Carlo Televisión, SODRE TV, Canal 10, Teledoce Televisora Color, Red Televisión Color
	1998	Red Charrúa, Monte Carlo Televisión, Televisión Nacional, Canal 10, Teledoce Televisora Color, Red Televisión Color, DirecTV
	2002	Red Uruguaya de Televisión, DirecTV
	2006	Red Charrúa, Monte Carlo TV, Televisión Nacional Uruguay, Canal 10, Teledoce, Red Uruguaya de Televisión, Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010–2014	Red Charrúa, Monte Carlo TV, Televisión Nacional Uruguay, Canal 10, Teledoce, Red Uruguaya de Televisión, DirecTV Sports
	2018	Red Charrúa, Monte Carlo TV, Televisión Nacional Uruguay, Canal 10, Teledoce, La Red, DirecTV Sports
	2022–present	Canal 4, Canal 5, Canal 10, Teledoce, La Red, DirecTV Sports, Dexary

Venezuela

Language	Editions	Broadcasters
Spanish	1970	RCTV
	1974	RCTV and Venevisión
	1978–1994	RCTV, Venevisión and VTV
	1998	RCTV, Venevisión, VTV and DirecTV
	2002	Venevisión, Meridiano Televisión and DirecTV
	2006	RCTV, Venevisión, Meridiano Televisión and Mundial Total DirecTV
	2010	Venevisión, Meridiano Televisión and DirecTV Sports
	2014	Venevisión, Meridiano Televisión, TVes, DirecTV Sports
	2018	Venevisión, Meridiano Televisión, TVes, La Tele Tuya, IVC and DirecTV Sports
	2022–present	Televen and DirecTV Sports

English-language World Feed

Year	Commentators	Co-Commentators
2022	Peter Drury (lead) Daniel Mann Simon Brotherton David Stowell Kevin Keatings John Roder	Alan Smith (lead) Andy Townsend Matt Holland Lucy Ward Efan Ekoku Casey Stoney
2018	Peter Drury (lead) Ian Darke John Helm John Roder Daniel Mann Kevin Keatings Paul Dempsey Mark Tompkins

Notes

1. including pre-match, half-time break, and post-match
2. Both ANTV and tvOne air 56 matches but with different studio presentation, except when the last round of each group is scheduled at the same time with ANTV airing the first pick of matches and tvOne airing the second pick.
3. Indonesian language play-by-play commentary is exclusively used by Indosiar for the 2022 tournament, starting from the Round of 16 to the Final

See also

• By year:
  • 1994 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 1998 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2002 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2006 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2010 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2014 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
  • 2026 FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights
• By country:
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in France
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Germany
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Indonesia
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in India
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Italy
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Latin America
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in Spain
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in the United Kingdom
  • Sports broadcasting contracts in the United States

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