Premier League at risk of losing Fox Sports Mexico TV contract worth £100m The Premier League is in danger of losing a £100m TV contract after one of its Mexican rights holders, Fox Sports Mexico, failed to make payments owed for this season.
The Guardian has learned that the Premier League is considering its options, which include legal action, cancelling the contract and taking Fox Sports’s live games off air in Mexico until it is paid.
Under the terms of a joint deal with HBO Max worth about £50m a year, Fox Sports holds rights to show about 100 Premier League matches each season, with 90 broadcast by HBO.
Fox Sports has a four-year contract to broadcast live Premier League games in Mexico, which runs until the end of the 2027-28 season, but is struggling to honour its commitments because of cashflow problems.
Concacaf, the confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean football, has filed a legal claim against Fox Sports for £20m over unpaid rights fees for the Champions Cup, the North and Central American equivalent of the Uefa Champions League.
