New Delhi: The broadcast rights for the Indian Super League (ISL) 2025-26 season have been awarded to FanCode after their technical and commercial bids edged six other competitors. KPS Studios, meanwhile, have been awarded the production rights for the world feed. All India Football Federation (AIFF) opened the bids on Monday having released the Request for Proposal (RFP) tender on January 18.FanCode had shown interest in Package A which covers world feed production, linear TV and digital streaming for the 91-match league. The previous broadcast deal for the ISL was worth Rs 275 crore/season (Rs 1.68 crore/match).
Besides FanCode, UK-based Two Circles, ABP Network, JioStar, Monarch with PR Solutions, Sportzworks and Kaleidoscope (KPS Studios) were the other parties that had shown interest in broadcasting and producing the ISL.After two rounds of clarifications, final submissions were received before the February 1 deadline. Sony Sports and Zee Sports had attended the pre-bid meeting but stayed away from making a final push.The AIFF reached a conclusion on the broadcast rights winner on the basis of a combination of technical and commercial bids. After technical bids were evaluated on the basis of broadcast and production experience, infrastructure and cameras, platform reach and prior experience, the process moved to the commercial bids.As per the final scoring formula, the bidders were adjudged on a 70:30 weightage formula with 70% going towards the technical know-how and rest on the financial metric.The current tentative schedule sees the truncated ISL season get underway on February 14 with a double-header between Mohun Bagan SG vs Kerala Blasters and FC Goa vs Inter Kashi. However, the fixture list is subject to changes based on the broadcaster’s requirements.Bids for ISL broadcast packages:FanCode (Package A, B, D)JioStar (Package D)Sportzworkz (Package E)KPS Studios (Package E)ABP Network (Package D, E)Monarch with PR Solutions (Package D, E)Two Circles (Package C, D, E)ISL media rights packages:Package A – World Feed production + linear TV broadcast + digital streamingPackage B – Linear TV broadcast + digital broadcastPackage C – Linear TV broadcast onlyPackage D – Digital broadcast onlyPackage E – World Feed production only
