CSTN acquires AFC media rights in the Caribbean – SportsPro Media

Pay-TV broadcaster agrees deal for Asian club and national team soccer rights until 2024.

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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has confirmed pay-TV broadcaster Caribbean Satellite Television Network (CSTN) as its new broadcast partner in the Caribbean until 2024.

Under the terms of the deal, CSTN will have the rights to all major AFC national team and club competitions starting immediately. The deal was brokered by the Football Marketing Asia agency, which is signed on as the AFCs commercial rights partner until 2028.

The broadcast rights picked up CSTN include the AFC Asian qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, the 2022 AFC Womens Asian Cup, the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, as well as the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup.

CSTNs current portfolio of rights includes the Concacaf Nations League and the regional Fifa World Cup Qualifiers.

Selby Browne, CSTN president, said: The vision for the development of a closer relationship between the 31 Caribbean countries and the 47 member associations of the AFC will prove successful for all nations. We look forward to bringing the AFC competitions ever closer to the football fans in the Caribbean.

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