racers and royals 8,732 Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) Article on Sportowefakty about the new 4 year TV contract, where it appears to be as you were with N Sport and Eleven Sport providing the joint coverage with N sport the prime broadcaster. 242 M Zl over 4 years compared to 60 M ZL over 3 years on the current contract. PGE Ekstraliga with a record TV contract! We know the details There has never been such money in Polish speedway. A record contract, but the same TV broadcaster in PGE Ekstriga - Canal +. The Meeting of Shareholders of the company managing the games of the best speedway league in the world is taking place in Warsaw. As we have unofficially established, during the meeting with the clubs, the president of PGE Ekstraliga, Wojciech Stępniewski, told activists that a new TV contract had been signed with Canal + for the years 2022-2025. We were the first to inform about it in December. There has never been such a lucrative contract in Polish speedway. The contract amounts to PLN 242 million! This means that PLN 60.5 million will be distributed annually to all partners in PGE Ekstraliga. Let us recall that the current three-year contract is worth a total of approximately PLN 60 million. The financial leap is therefore huge. Canal + is still at the stage of negotiations with Eleven Sports as a TV sub-licensee, but as WP SportoweFakty found out, it is only a formal issue. There are many indications that the matches will still be broadcast by two TV stations from 2022. On Fridays at Eleven Sports, and on Sundays at nSport +. Eleven is likely to buy some of the rights from Canal +, which will continue to be the main broadcaster with priority in selecting the first two matches in each round. PGE Ekstraliga matches can also be watched via Canal + online on the Internet. Let us recall that 2021 is the last year of the old contract with PGE Ekstraliga, and from April all PGE Ekstraliga matches will be broadcast on Eleven Sports (two games on Fridays) and nSport + (two games on Sundays). The inauguration of the season was scheduled for April 3 and 4 and there are no signs that it will be postponed. At the end of last year, PGE Ekstraliga concluded a three-year contract with the title sponsor of the tournament - PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna. It guarantees PLN 10.5 million for distribution to EŻ shareholders in the years 2021 - 2023 Edited February 25, 2021 by racers and royals 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racers and royals 8,732 Posted February 25, 2021 (edited) Massive increase for the league in this new contract in 2022 from 20 M ZL a season to 60 M ZL a season. It will be really interesting to see what happens with all this extra money. Will the clubs be sensible and use it to help with their profit margins or will the riders think it`s Christmas day and immediately seek large wage increases Also news today that QF`s will be back from 2022- meaning more teams will take part in play-offs. Google translation of article On the occasion of information about the new contract for television rights to PGE Ekstraliga, it was announced that the game formula has changed from the 2022 season. After the main round and before the semi-finals, three 2 leg quarter-finals are to be held. There has been some speculation about the changes to the game format, now we have an official confirmation. - From the 2022 season, speedway fans will be able to get excited about as many as 70 matches a season. This is due to the addition of three additional 2 leg quarter-final matches to the PGE Ekstraliga schedule. Edited February 25, 2021 by racers and royals Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racers and royals 8,732 Posted February 26, 2021 Possible further alterations to the Polish league`s in 2022- google translation of the article. Fourteen teams in the 2nd Speedway League? It sounds like a speedway-fiction script, but thanks to a new TV deal with Canal +, it's possible. The contract stipulates that every extra-league player will have to have a league reserve team. Currently, the second league has seven teams, and with the addition of seven more teams (Unia Leszno already has reserves in the form of Kolejarza Rawicz), from the season of 2022 up to fourteen teams can ride at the lowest level of the tournament. - A larger second league may start in 2022, but it is not a foregone conclusion. It must all be well prepared. However, if this happens, then we will most likely create two groups of seven or more teams - says the chairman of the Main Speedway Sport Commission, Piotr Szymański. The head of the Polish speedway also adds that the bigger second league is his and Wojciech Stępniewski's idea. The reserve teams would not have the right to be promoted to a higher division, and their presence in the league would be of a training nature, as only players under 24 could compete there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikebv 10,290 Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) It's certainly not slowing down in Poland is it? Seems they still have TV companies fighting over the rights to show their product... Kerchingski..... Edit That's 11 and a half million pounds a year!!! Edited February 28, 2021 by mikebv Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
