SuperSport brings more than 500 live football matches & plenty more live sport this Festive Season

To mark a Festive Season like no other, SuperSport proudly brings viewers more than 500 live football matches between the start of December 2024 and the end of January 2025, and plenty more besides.

The Festive Season is a truly incomparable live sports offering for DStv, DStv Stream and Showmax subscribers, who will have the chance to view live sport around the clock for 61 days during the happiest time of the year.

SuperSport kicked off the unrivalled live football offering by bringing 31 days of Non-Stop football, when between 22 November 2024 to 22 December 2024, DStv subscribers would have had the chance to watch at least one live football match every single day.

On 23 November, the Premier League also kicked off its incredible spell of 90 matches in 45 days until 6 January 2025, when the world’s biggest league ramps up its action with its unmissable dose of high volume of matches in the short time span.

Of course, all Premier League matches are available on SuperSport and Showmax Premier League live. Premier League action doesn’t get better than Liverpool hosting Manchester City on 1 December at 18:00 (CAT). Top four contenders Chelsea and Aston Villa went head-to-head on the same Super Sunday at 15:30.

On Wednesday 4 December, Arsenal hosted Manchester United at the Emirates Stadium in one of the Premier League’s traditional rivalries.

New Reds boss Ruben Amorim hoped – but failed – to lay an early marker since taking charge at Old Trafford by claiming a big scalp in Arsenal, who had already restored their title ambitions following a convincing 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest at home.

While Amorim will continue to attempt to restore United to their former glory, Arsenal have been buoyed by the return of their talismanic captain, Martin Odegaard, who has given Mikel Arteta’s men the firepower they’ve sorely missed in his injury-enforced absence.

Man United will now have one eye on the first Manchester Derby of the season when they face Pep Guardiola’s floundering champions, Manchester City.

“This time of the year is always hugely exciting for us as the biggest sports broadcaster in Africa and one of the biggest in the world,” says SuperSport CEO Rendani Ramovha.

“It’s a time when we get to fully display our capabilities of broadcasting multiple live sporting events simultaneously.”

“While football fans will be devouring the more than 500 live matches on show, cricket fans will be caught up in the gripping bat versus ball contents during Sri Lanka, Pakistan and England Women’s tours to South Africa.”

“Right when the Springboks closed off their Autumn Nations Series with a perfect three wins in three, fans immediately jump onto Vodacom United Rugby Championship and European Champions Cup and Challenge Cup clashes.”

“That’s just skimming the surface of what’s available between now and the end of January. It is an extravaganza. It’s a period that has us and our viewers and subscribers so excited because it means not a day goes by without their fill of sporting action.”

On January 29, SuperSport will broadcast all 18 UEFA Champions League Match Day 8 matches live, which includes Barcelona vs Atalanta and PSV Eindhoven against Liverpool.

On the cricket pitch, the Proteas men welcomed Sri Lanka for two Test matches before the visit of Pakistan, who are in South Africa for three T20I, three ODIs and two Tests from 10 December to 10 January.

The incredible Betway SA20 Season 3 begins 9 January 2025, when the finest T20 franchise cricketers on the globe converging in South Africa for an exhibition of splendid and explosive cricket.

Vodacom United Rugby Championship rugby resumed with a tasty Coastal Derby between the Hollywoodbets Sharks and the DHL Stormers on Saturday 30 November at Hollywoodbets Kings Park.

On 21 December, the Stormers host highflying men from the Highveld, the Lions, at the DHL Stadium while the Sharks host the Vodacom Bulls.

A week later, the Stormers host the Sharks in the return fixture in Cape Town and former winners Munster host Leinster in the big Irish Derby.

Other major sports tournaments to look forward to during this period include the Australian Open tennis, which starts on 15 January and runs until 28 January.

Watch SuperSport’s wide array of sporting channels on DStv, the DStv Stream app, or on your mobile with Showmax Premier League.