Sky Sports announces exciting new deal with SANZAAR

Sky Sports have announced a new deal with SANZAAR which will see the broadcaster featuring a feast of Southern Hemisphere rugby over the next four years. 

The deal will include Home Nations Summer Tours (England in Australia, Ireland in New Zealand, Wales in South Africa, Scotland in Argentina), The Rugby Championship, Super Rugby, Currie Cup in South Africa and the Mitre 10 Cup in New Zealand and viewers will thus be able to enjoy around 150 fixtures per year. 

Sky Sports Managing Director, Jonathan Licht, said: "SANZAAR rugby has been in Sky Sports' DNA for almost 30 years and we're pleased to continue our important and valued partnership with SANZAAR to give our customers the very best rugby the southern hemisphere has to offer." 

The following from SANZAAR CEO Brendan Morris:  

"We welcome Sky aboard once again as our broadcast partner in the UK and Ireland. 

"Sky has been a broadcast partner of SANZAAR for a very long time and we have a very strong and professional relationship that has seen our tournaments delivered into this major rugby market. Super Rugby Pacific continues to be a world class tournament featuring some of the best players in the world. 

"It is followed by The Rugby Championship when current world champions South Africa will battle the All Blacks, Wallabies and Pumas for southern hemisphere supremacy."