Samsung TV Plus Adds FIFA Plus Channel, Building Sports Portfolio

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Channel features documentaries and access to World Cup archive

Samsung TV Plus FIFA Plus
(Image credit: Samsung)

Samsung Electronics said it added the FIFA Plus channel to Samsung TV Plus, its free, ad-supported streaming service.

The FIFA Plus channel is being added as the Women’s World Cup is being played in Australia and New Zealand.

The channel features a collection of original programming and highlights from men’s and women’s soccer. Viewers in Brazil and Italy can access full live Women’s World Cup matches.

FIFA Plus also offers The Archive, home to every FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup match ever recorded on camera.

Samsung has been adding sports channels to its free streaming platform.  Sports content available includes channels from Dazn, the Tennis Channel, DraftKings and CBS Sports HQ.

“Samsung is delighted to be adding the FIFA Plus channel to Samsung TV Plus, thereby expanding the roster of sports content available on Samsung TVs and Galaxy devices,” Samsung Electronics Europe head of business development Richard Jakeman said. “Launching globally with a rich lineup of curated FIFA Plus content will add incredible value to our customers, and with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 continuing, they’ll also be able to experience content that marks the next exciting chapter in the Women’s game.”

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.