Streamer DAZN has secured its first domestic men's football rights deal in the UK with full rights to screen the National League.
All 557 games from the fifth tier of English football will be streamed on the platform, although only those outside of the regular Saturday blackout window will be shown live.
At present it is unknown how many of the 12 games each weekend will be moved from the traditional 3pm kickoff to enable more matches to be available live, with the remainder expected to be streamed in full after the blackout window ends.
The broadcaster will also show a "significant" number of games from the sixth-tier National League North and National League South divisions.
National League fans will need to subscribe to a package add-on to the DAZN platform called National League TV, the price of which has yet to be confirmed.
Speaking about the deal, which runs for seven seasons starting this season, DAZN CEO Shay Segev said: "DAZN's technology makes us uniquely placed to create destinations for sports fans, and this multi-year partnership with NLS will allow us to create a global home for the National League, helping fans better access the teams they are so passionate about, while creating engagement opportunities to access new audiences.
"This is the latest in a series of channel deals which leverage DAZN's scale and industry-leading tech stack to revolutionise the way rights holders increase exposure to domestic and international audiences and develop their sport digitally and commercially."
DAZN also takes the entire global rights to the National League as part of the agreement, apart from where the league already has deals in place in Germany, Spain and Japan.
This season's National League begins in all three divisions on Saturday, August 10.
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