It is a Champions League final for the record. Budapest will stand still for the holy grail of European football on Saturday 30th May, 2026, attracting billions of viewers across the globe. Football is obviously not the biggest of sports in the United States, but its global appeal cannot be ignored, particularly in a year the United States of America is hosting an inaugural 48-team World Cup in conjunction with Canada and Mexico.
While Arsenal, on the back of their first Premier League title in 22 years, are prepared to win their first-ever Champions League title, the French giants, Paris Saint-Germain, on the heels of their Ligue 1 title, will hope to make it a back-to-back European title.
Yankee Scores in this piece provides a guide on how to watch the Champions League final in the United States.
CBS Sports
The UEFA Champions League in English-language broadcast rights in the United States has been acquired by CBS. The contract is worth $1.5 billion and runs through the 2029-30 season. It is a large annual growth compared to the current deal with UEFA.
CBS Sports will broadcast the Champions League final with Paramount+ the main platform for its online broadcasting, but some important matches will still be aired by CBS and CBS Sports Network.
In addition, Paramount+ offers all the services related to UEFA Champions League, namely, full match broadcasting with replays, live broadcasts of games, on-demand, and a huge archive of UEFA content. In addition, Paramount+ provides official matches highlights and additional broadcasting of UEFA Champions League.
DAZN
DAZN has entered into a sublicensing agreement with TelevisaUnivision, which is valid until 2027. According to the terms of this agreement, DAZN broadcasts 38 live games per season of the UEFA Champions League in the Spanish language in the USA, along with seven playoff games, including the final one. As a result, fewer games will be aired exclusively on TelevisaUnivision’s streaming platform called ViX+, although the broadcasting organization continues to enjoy major Spanish-language rights in the USA for its networks Univision, UniMás, and TUDN.
TelevisaUnivision
TelevisaUnivision enjoys the exclusive broadcasting rights of the UEFA Champions League in Spanish in the United States till the 2026-27 season. This means that they have all their Spanish broadcasting on Univision, UniMás, and TUDN, and also on their streaming platform ViX+.
The final kicks off at 12 PM Eastern Time (ET), 11 AM on Central Time (CT), 10 AM on Mountain Time (MT) and 9 AM on Pacific Time (PT)
