Eurosport to broadcast Europe's most comprehensive coverage of the UEFA Women's EURO
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Paris 03 July - Eurosport will broadcast all 25 matches of the 2013 UEFA Women's EURO live from 10-28 July continuing its long-standing commitment to women's football.
Eurosport is the host broadcaster for the tournament and will show live coverage of every single game, with 21 live matches on Eurosport and four on Eurosport 2. It will be exclusive in over 40 of Eurosport's 54 European territories.
The tournament, which is being held in Sweden, is the most prestigious competition in women's football after the FIFA World Cup and will see Europe's 12 strongest sides compete to win the coveted trophy.
Eurosport's coverage will be fronted by German World Cup winner Thomas Berthold. He will present the channel's pitch-side coverage and be joined for live matches by guests including Women's World Cup winner, and three-time Euro winner, Steffi Jones of Germany, four-time Euro winner with Germany, Doris Fitschen, Champions League winner with Bayern Munich and Swedish international Patrick Andersson and Spanish women's football writer David Menayo. Berthold previously worked with Eurosport as an on-air expert during the men's UEFA EURO 2012.
The Women's EURO is the latest in a long line of major women's football events to be broadcast by Eurosport, whose commitment to the sport has extended to covering every woman's World Cup and EURO since 2003. The summer of 2012 saw live coverage of four major FIFA and UEFA women's youth tournaments, before the Algarve Cup was shown in March 2013. There was also elite club football on Eurosport with this season's UEFA Women's Champions League.
Arnaud Simon, Director of TV content for the Eurosport Group said: "The EURO is the culmination of a fantastic season of women's football on Eurosport. We have a long history of broadcasting the women's game, which has been a great success, drawing over 56 million different viewers each time for both the 2009 EURO and the 2011 World Cup. As host broadcaster, Eurosport will be able to bring all of its great expertise to bear on this exciting competition which features some of the world's best teams."
The first of Eurosport's live, and complete, coverage of the tournament sees Italy play Finland on July 10th at 17:45CET followed by Sweden vs. Denmark at 20:30CET.
The 2013 draw in full:
Group A: Group B: Group C:
Denmark Germany England Finland Iceland France Italy Netherlands Russia Sweden Norway Spain
