Sky Sports announces major changes to Premier League TV coverage for 26/27 season

The Premier League is back and Sky has made some major changes to its coverage for the new season. On Friday (August 21), top-flight football gets underway as Arsenal kick off their title defence against newly-promoted Coventry City. To mark the occasion, Sky has rolled out a series of brand-new features across its Sky Sports channels to enhance coverage throughout the 2026/27 campaign. The standout feature is Your Multiview, which lets fans watch up to four live Sky Sports events simultaneously on a single screen.

This allows the biggest events in football, F1, cricket, tennis, golf, NFL and rugby to be watched side by side so viewers no longer have to switch between channels. With this, fans can spotlight an event to change the on-screen layout, select the audio they want to hear and switch any event to full screen when it’s the one they don’t want to miss. This includes fixtures across the Premier League, EFL, SPFL and WSL, as Sky says it will show around 1,500 games across leagues this season, including at least 215 from the Premier League. Sky has also introduced more ways for football fans to stay up to date with the latest goings on across the leagues, as an all-new Sports Hub displays live scores, stats, tables, schedules, clips and highlights at the side of the screen and offers routes to tune to other games.

There’s also a Team Page that shows everything about one’s favourite team in one place, including live games, headlines, highlights and replays. A refreshed Live Sports Rail now keeps fans up to date with what’s on now, what’s coming up and when events start more quickly. All this joins the launch of Sky Real Time, the new channels across Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports+ and Sky Sports Premier League that deliver the action with less lag. It’s said to show what’s happening on the pitch ‘within seconds’ and means viewers can see each kick of the ball almost instantly and avoid annoying spoilers from mobile notifications.

Each of these new features are included with Sky Glass and Sky Stream, the latter of which starts at £35 per month for Essential TV and Sky Sports. This comes with full Sky Sports coverage of the Premier League, EFL, F1 and more, plus around 100 channels and a free Netflix subscription. There’s also the £44 Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle, which recently underwent a makeover to now include HBO Max, Disney+ and Hayu too. Existing Sky customers can add Sky Sports to their package from £22 per month.

A caveat is that to get these prices means committing to a 24-month contract, with Sky saying its prices ‘may change’ during the minimum term. Elsewhere, Virgin Media customers can watch Sky Sports with select TV and broadband bundles. Including the £52.99 Sport bundle, which comes with more than 200 channels, Netflix and 516Mbps fibre broadband. There’s a catch here too, as Virgin has already said this package will rise to £56.99 from April 2027 and £60.99 from April 2028.

It’s worth noting that not every Premier League fixture will air on Sky, as TNT Sports holds the broadcast rights to select games. TNT tends to show one game per gameweek, starting with Hull City vs Man United on Saturday (August 22). TNT Sports coverage is now available on several platforms including HBO Max and Prime Video’s TNT Sports channel, where subscriptions start from £25.99 per month on an annual plan, or £30.99 on a rolling monthly basis.