ESPN

From August 1, 2013, the ESPN television channel in the UK and Ireland is part of BT Sport. Subscribers to BT Sport will be able to watch a range of great sporting action on ESPN including:

• Great American sport including
• MLB
• NASCAR
• Indy Car
• NCAA Football 
• NCAA Basketball
• Football from around the world including Bundesliga and Ligue 1
• The X Games
• Other international sport such as
  • French Top 14 Rugby
  • Australian Football League
  • DTM

FA Cup

BT Sport have enhanced their football coverage after securing a four-year shared rights deal to become home to The FA Cup from 2014-2018.

The most romantic club competition in world football will be shown on BT Sport for the next five years after the broadcaster retained the rights in a joint bid with the BBC.

Up to 25 exclusively live FA Cup matches will be shown on BT Sport from 2014 including the final, which will be shared with the BBC. The deal also includes the FA Community Shield and FA Trophy.

Barclays Premier League

The top London derby clash between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea is just one of the many unmissable Barclays Premier League football games to be shown by BT Sport in the first third of the season.

BT Sport will also show one of the most famous Premier League rivalries, as Everton play host to Liverpool in the celebrated Merseyside derby.

In addition, BT Sport has chosen Tottenham Hotspur against Manchester United at White Hart Lane.

And Arsenal fans will only have to wait until the second week of the season to enjoy a potentially tricky away game at Fulham.

BT Sport Barclays Premier League matches

Scottish Premiership

BT Sport will start its coverage of the Scottish Professional Football League top tier on August 2 with the Friday evening match between newly-promoted Partick Thistle and Dundee United.

This is followed by the clash between Aberdeen and Celtic at Pittodrie on August 17.

BT Sport will also show last season’s SPFL top flight runners up Motherwell against Kilmarnock.

BT Sport Scottish Premiership matches

A-League

BT Sport has signed the rights to show top tier football matches from Australia. Football fans will be able to follow Alessandro Del Piero, Michael Bridges and Terry McFlynn in the A-League.

Conference Premier

The Football Conference and BT Sport have agreed a two-year deal for the new channels to show 30 live matches a season from the Conference Premier.

BT Sport will host live broadcasts from the grounds for 25 league matches, plus both legs of the play-off semis and the Promotion Final at Wembley, from the start of the 2013-14 season in August.