by Thinus Ferreira
At the MultiChoice Showcase 2021 virtual media event on Thursday afternoon, SuperSport summarised its vast, locked-in offering of local and international sports events it will broadcast live in 2022 on DStv and Showmax Pro, and announced a further two local sports documentaries - one for football and another one following the Springboks rugby team.
SuperSport continues with the 2022 FIFA Football World Cup in December 2022 with Marc Jury, SuperSport CEO, saying that with the Premier League, La Liga, the DStv Premiership, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, SuperSport offers "an unbeatable football experience".
SuperSport says it will continue to
broadcast key live sporting events, including giving subscribers the opportunity to follow the Springboks on their incoming and
outgoing tours in 2022.
SuperSport's 2022 FIFA Football World Cup coverage will include all 64 matches, live
and in prime time, supported by an array of highlights, historical
footage and news updates. SuperSport also has the UEFA Champions League and Europa League (until May 2022) and the FA
Cup (until May 2022).
SuperSport will bring viewers the action from the all-new United Rugby Championship (until June 2022) and the Six Nations will make a reappearance in February 2022. SuperSport will also cover the World Sevens Series of the Blitzbokke.
In women's sporting events SuperSport is doing coverage of the Proteas Women taking on the West Indies on an incoming tour; the FIFA Women's World Cup; British Open Golf; Augusta
National Women's Amateur; LPGA Weekly; Sunshine Ladies Tour; US Women's Open
Golf and Solheim Cup.
There is also the FIG World Challenge Cup Gymnastics, FIG World
Cup, FIH Pro League Hockey; DStv Schools Netball Challenge; Paarl Gim Netball
Tournament and the Spar Challenge International Netball Series.
There's also
Women's Premier Division Rugby; Women's Six Nations; Women's Sevens and WTA
1000; WTA 250 & WTA 500 tennis, as well as mixed events like athletics; Basketball National League, international cycling; the Absa Cape Epic;
SuperSport Shootout Golf, Oxford v Cambridge rowing, PSA World Tour Squash;
Super League triathlon and the World Triathlon Championship Series.
Cricket lovers can follow The Ashes and India's tour of South Africa until January 2022 on SuperSport, the IPL in March and the Proteas' tour of England from July to September.
Cricket lovers can follow The Ashes and India's tour of South Africa until January 2022 on SuperSport, the IPL in March and the Proteas' tour of England from July to September.
All the tennis and golf Majors are covered by SuperSport from January to July 2022.
On two and four wheels SuperSport is covering the longest-ever F1 season, MotoGP, SuperBikes, and every major cycling event from May's Giro d'Italia to October's Absa Cape Epic, as well as the Amstel Gold Race, Challenge by la Vuelta and the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup and Paris-Roubaix to the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.
On two and four wheels SuperSport is covering the longest-ever F1 season, MotoGP, SuperBikes, and every major cycling event from May's Giro d'Italia to October's Absa Cape Epic, as well as the Amstel Gold Race, Challenge by la Vuelta and the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Cup and Paris-Roubaix to the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.
SuperSport will have boxing in 2022, the usual UFC stars and EFC.
In WWE wrestling SuperSport will again broadcast headliner events like the Royal Rumble in January 2022 and WrestleMania in April next year.
The American Indoor Track League, Diamond League, IAAF World Indoor Tour and World Athletics Continental Tour will be shown and during July and August 2022 SuperSport will bring viewers the Commonwealth Games from Birmingham.
There's National League Basketball and all the major road running marathons from Lagos to Milan and Hamburg to New York City.
The American Indoor Track League, Diamond League, IAAF World Indoor Tour and World Athletics Continental Tour will be shown and during July and August 2022 SuperSport will bring viewers the Commonwealth Games from Birmingham.
There's National League Basketball and all the major road running marathons from Lagos to Milan and Hamburg to New York City.
