ESPN2 and ESPN3 will combine to present four UEFA EURO 2021 Playoffs Final matches on Thursday, Nov. 12, to decide the last four teams that will qualify for the quadrennial European Football Championship to be staged next summer. All matches will stream live on the ESPN App. The single-leg matches will begin with an ESPN2 doubleheader: Georgia vs. North Macedonia, live from Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi, Georgia, at 12 p.m. ET; followed by Serbia vs. Scotland from Red Star Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia, at 2:45 p.m. The other two matches – Hungary vs. Iceland from Pukas Arena in Budapest, and Northern Island vs. Slovakia from Windsor Park in Belfast – will stream live on ESPN3 beginning at 2:45 p.m.

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ESPN platforms – ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+ and ESPN3 – will showcase 54 UEFA Nations League matches in five days (Saturday through Wednesday) during the October 2020 FIFA Match Week . The slate of games will include 10 matchups between top-20 teams in the current FIFA World Rankings.

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ESPN networks – ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC – will combine to televise more than 140 live hours of the UEFA European Football Championship 2020 beginning Friday, June 12, with the opening match in Rome, through the Final on Sunday, July 12, at the historic Wembley Stadium in London. The 51 matches of the quadrennial international competition will be played across 12 European cities. ESPN will televise 39 UEFA EURO 2020 matches, while ESPN2 will air seven. ABC Television Network will broadcast five matches (two group stage matches, two round of 16, and one quarterfinal) – the first UEFA European Football Championship match on network since 2008. The matches will be streamed live on both the ESPN and ABC apps.

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ESPN will combine to present all matches of the inaugural UEFA Nations League Finals across its television networks. The four matches will begin Wednesday, June 5, with the semifinal between Portugal and Switzerland at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2, live from the Estádio do Dragão in the city of Porto, Portugal. The second semifinal – Netherlands vs. England from Estádio D. Afonso Henriques in Guimarães – will air on ESPN2 Thursday, June 6, at 2:30 p.m.

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ESPN’s presentation of UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 from The Netherlands will kick off Sunday, July 16, with the hosts facing off against Norway at Noon ET on ESPN3 and streaming live on the ESPN app. A second match from Group A will stream at 2:45 p.m. ET as Denmark takes on Belgium. All 31 matches of UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 will air live on the ESPN networks, with the group stage, quarterfinals and semifinals streaming on ESPN3 and the ESPN app, with the final airing from Enschede on ESPNU on Sunday, Aug. 6, and the trophy presentation immediately following the match.

The first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League semifinal between U.S. Women’s National Team captain Carli Lloyd’s Manchester City Women and fellow USWNT star Alex Morgan’s Olympique Lyon will kick off live on ESPN3 on Saturday, April 22, at 8:45 a.m. ET. ESPN3 will air the second leg of the Manchester City-Lyon semifinals on April 29, at 2:45 p.m.

The UEFA Champions League returns to ESPN this Tuesday, September 13, at 2:30 p.m., with Barcelona vs. Celtic live on ESPN Deportes and ESPN Deportes +.

ESPN has reached an agreement with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the rights to the UEFA European Football Championship 2020™ and all UEFA national team matches between 2018 and 2022. ESPN will be the exclusive English-language home in the United States for UEFA EURO 2020, which will be played in stadiums across 13 European nations to mark the 60th anniversary of the competition.

Sunday’s UEFA EURO 2016 Final on ESPN and ESPN Deportes – a 1-0 victory in extra time to secure Portugal’s first-ever title in an international competition – ranks as the most-watched UEFA European Football Championship match on the ESPN networks. Based on Nielsen, the 2.5-hour telecast (3-5:30 p.m. ET) averaged 5,899,000 viewers combined for the game window on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. The audience was up two percent from the 5,758,000 viewers who watched the UEFA EURO 2012 Final (Spain vs. Italy) on both ESPN English and Spanish-language networks.