There is a growing clamour among Premier League clubs, including the owners of Chelsea and Manchester United, to scrap the Saturday 3pm ‘blackout’ that prevents games in that slot being screened live domestically, according to sources with knowledge of the clubs’ thinking.
The blackout will remain in place until 2029 under the terms of the 2025-29 domestic rights sales that will imminently go out to tender. But from 2029, an increasing number of top-flight clubs, already believed to be a majority, want all 380 Premier League games to be shown live in the UK.