ESPN Africa has secured unique FIBA broadcast rights throughout sub-Saharan Africa, in a four-year deal that brings over 1 500 worldwide basketball video games to followers throughout the continent.
The four-year settlement will see ESPN Africa air greater than 1 500 video games from 2025 till 2029, that includes the world’s high nationwide groups and rising stars in a dynamic line-up of worldwide tournaments.
From the FIBA Basketball World Cups (males’s and girls’s) and Continental Cups, to youth World Cups, ESPN Africa will ship each main worldwide second reside to audiences throughout the area.
Followers can look ahead to seeing quite a few nationwide groups compete in key qualifiers and tournaments, with motion spanning the lads’s and girls’s FIBA AfroBasket, the FIBA Males’s and Ladies’s Basketball World Cups and Olympic qualifying occasions.
Germany are the present FIBA World Cup males’s champions, having overwhelmed Serbia within the closing in September 2023. Meng Yongmin/Xinhua through Getty ImagesGlobal Basketball, Native Ardour
This settlement cements ESPN Africa’s place as the house of premiere basketball on the continent, giving viewers an unparalleled mixture of worldwide and home pleasure.
By showcasing each the depth of FIBA competitors and the distinctive ability of African gamers on the worldwide stage, ESPN Africa continues to strengthen its providing for followers who reside and breathe the sport.
“ESPN Africa stays dedicated to bringing viewers the easiest in sport from all over the world,” says Kyle De Klerk, Director of Sports activities at The Walt Disney Firm Africa.
“Basketball has an unbelievable following on the continent, and this collaboration with FIBA provides our audiences the chance to expertise the worldwide recreation in all its varieties, from the most important tournaments to the following era of stars.”
Viewers of ESPN’s channels in Africa, in addition to on Disney+ in South Africa, will be capable of watch African FIBA qualifiers this week already, beginning on Thursday Nov. 27, and that includes the likes of Cameroon, Cape Verde, Nigeria’s D’Tigers, in addition to powerhouses Tunisia and Libya.
Watch these:
27-11-2025 12:00:00 ESPN FIBA Qualification Cameroon vs Cape Verde
27-11-2025 15:00:00 ESPN FIBA Qualification South Sudan vs Libya
27-11-2025 18:00:00 ESPN FIBA Qualification Nigeria vs Tunisia
27-11-2025 21:00:00 ESPN FIBA Qualification Rwanda vs Guinea
28-11-2025 15:00:00 ESPN2 FIBA Qualification Cape Verde vs South Sudan
28-11-2025 18:00:00 ESPN2 FIBA Qualification Libya vs Cameroon
29-11-2025 15:00:00 ESPN2 FIBA Qualification Guinea vs Nigeria
29-11-2025 18:00:00 Delay FIBA Qualification Tunisia vs Rwanda
30-11-2025 12:00:00 ESPN2 FIBA Qualification Cameroon vs South Sudan
30-11-2025 15:00:00 TBC – Delay FIBA Qualification Libya vs Cape Verde
30-11-2025 18:00:00 ESPN2 FIBA Qualification Guinea vs Tunisia
30-11-2025 21:00:00 TBC – Delay FIBA Qualification Nigeria vs Rwanda
Find out how to tune in to ESPN:
ESPN: DStv 218, StarTimes 248
ESPN2: DStv 219, StarTimes 249
Disney+ in South Africa
• All occasions are said in CAT / SAST
• Schedule topic to alter