FOX Sports embarks on its inaugural season as the U.S. home to the Bundesliga, Germany’s top professional soccer league, on Friday, August 14th, expanding its multi-platform domestic coverage to unprecedented levels. More than 300 regular-season matches are scheduled for live television or streaming in the U.S. for the first time ever, more than double past years, including 58 slated for FOX Sports 1.
The Bundesliga season consists of 306 matches played from August to May. In addition to the 58 games telecast on FOX Sports 1, 60 are earmarked for FOX Sports 2, and the remainder offered via FOX Soccer Plus. On the Spanish-language side, FOX Deportes is set to televise 105 matches. Additionally, every game televised on FOX Sports 1 or FOX Sports 2 is being streamed live on desktop computers via FOXSoccer.com as well as the FOX Sports GO mobile app. All FOX Soccer Plus matches are being streamed on the FOX Soccer 2 GO app.
Editor’s note to cord cutters: Every single game of the Bundesliga will be available live and on-demand via FOX Soccer 2GO to your computer, smartphone or tablet.
The first round of the Bundesliga season features six matches, officially kicking off on Friday, Aug. 14 with defending champion Bayern Munich taking on Hamburg. In a special telecast, the match is being offered on FOX Sports Regional Networks, FOX Sports 2, FOXSports.com and via FOX Sports’ YouTube channel, with pregame coverage beginning at 2:00 PM ET. While Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund are also in action Week 1, last season’s league runner-up Wolfsburg faces off against Eintracht Frankfurt on FOX Sports 1 on Sunday, Aug. 16 with pregame coverage beginning at 9:00 AM ET.
Ian Joy joins FOX Sports as its lead Bundesliga studio host, sitting alongside a rotation of analysts including Eric Wynalda, like Joy a Bundesliga veteran. Joy, previously with beIN Sports, is a former soccer professional, having played in Germany, most notably at Hamburg, and also with Real Salt Lake and the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer. Wynalda is the first American-born player to play for a top-level German club (Saarbrucken) and won the Bundesliga Best Newcomer of the Year award in 1992. Special guest analysts are expected to join the panel throughout the season. FOX Sports also offer features, interviews and reports provided by Sky Deutschland, its sister network in Germany and the Bundesliga’s domestic rights holder.
The TV schedule for the opening weeks of the Bundesliga season is as follows:
Friday, August 14
Bayern Munich vs Hamburg, 2:30pm, FOX Sports 2, FOX Sports Net, FOX Deportes, YouTube and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, August 15
Bayer Leverkusen vs Hoffenheim, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Werder Bremen vs Schalke, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Augsburg vs Hertha Berlin, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Mainz vs Ingolstadt, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Darmstadt vs Hannover, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia Monchengladbach, 12:30pm, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, August 16
Wolfsburg vs Eintracht Frankfurt, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Stuttgart vs Cologne, 11:30am, FOX Soccer Plus, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Friday, August 21
Hertha Berlin vs Werder Bremen, 2:30pm, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, August 22
Hoffenheim vs Bayern Munich, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Cologne vs Wolfsburg, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Frankfurt vs Augsburg, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Schalke vs Darmstadt, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Hannover vs Bayer Leverkusen, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Hamburg vs Stuttgart, 12:30pm, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, August 23
Ingolstadt vs Borussia Dortmund, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Mainz, 11:30am, FOX Sports 1, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Friday, August 28
Wolfsburg vs Schalke, 2:30pm, FOX Sports 1, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, August 29
Stuttgart vs Frankfurt, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Mainz vs Hannover, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Cologne vs Hamburg, 9:30am, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Augsburg vs Ingolstadt, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Darmstadt vs Hoffenheim, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Bayern Munich vs Bayer Leverkusen, 12:30pm, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, August 30
Borussia Dortmund vs Hertha Berlin, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach, 11:30am, FOX Soccer Plus, FOX Deportes and FOX Soccer 2GO
Friday, September 11
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Hamburg, 2:30pm, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, September 12
Bayern Munich vs Augsburg, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Bayer Leverkusen vs Darmstadt, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Hannover vs Borussia Dortmund, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Hertha Berlin vs Stuttgart, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Ingolstadt vs Wolfsburg, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Frankfurt vs Cologne, 12:30pm, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, September 13
Hoffenheim vs Werder Bremen, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Schalke vs Mainz, 11:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Friday, September 18
Mainz vs Hoffenheim, 2:30pm, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, September 19
SV Darmstadt 98 vs Bayern Munich, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Wolfsburg vs Hertha Berlin, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Cologne vs Borussia Monchengladbach, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Hamburg vs Frankfurt, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Werder Bremen vs Ingolstadt, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Stuttgart vs Schalke, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, September 20
Stuttgart vs Schalke, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Borussia Dortmund vs Bayer Leverkusen, 11:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Augsburg vs Hannover, 11:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Tuesday, September 22
Bayern Munich vs Wolfsburg, 2pm, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Darmstadt vs Werder Bremen, 2pm, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Hertha Berlin vs Cologne, 2pm, FOX Soccer 2GO
Ingolstadt vs Hamburg, 2pm, FOX Soccer 2GO
Wednesday, September 23
Borussia Monchengladbach vs Augsburg, 2pm, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Schalke vs Frankfurt, 2pm, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Bayer Leverkusen vs Mainz, 2pm, FOX Soccer 2GO
Hannover vs Stuttgart, 2pm, FOX Soccer 2GO
Hoffenheim vs Borussia Dortmund, 2pm, FOX Soccer 2GO
Friday, September 25
Cologne vs Ingolstadt, 2:30pm, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Saturday, September 26
Mainz vs Bayern Munich, 9:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Stuttgart vs Borussia Monchengladbach, 9:30am, FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2GO
Wolfsburg vs Hannover, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Augsburg vs Hoffenheim, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Werder Bremen vs Bayer Leverkusen, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Hamburg vs Schalke, 9:30am, FOX Soccer 2GO
Sunday, September 27
Frankfurt vs Hertha Berlin, 9:30am, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Soccer 2GO
Borussia Dortmund vs Darmstadt, 11:30am, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Soccer 2GO