Play Sports

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Play Sports

Country	Belgium
Broadcast area	Belgium
Headquarters	Mechelen
Programming
Language(s)	Dutch
Ownership
Owner	Telenet (Liberty Global)
Sister channels	Play More
History
Replaced	Prime Sport (2005-2012) Sporting Telenet (2012-2015)
Links
Website	www.playsports.be
Availability
Streaming media
Yelo Play	Watch Live (Belgium only)

Play Sports, formerly called Prime Sport (2005-2012) and Sporting Telenet (2012-2015), is a brand name owned by the Flemish cable distributor Telenet, consisting of a bundle of television channels. Through television stations, competitions from various European football competitions, including The Belgian Jupiler Pro League. In addition, Play Sports includes American NBA Basketball, American Football, and Golf. In March 2014, it also acquired the rights to broadcast Formula 1 until 2019. In July 2015, the name changed From Sporting Telenet to Play Sports. At the same time, the offer of other sports was expanded extensively, including the acquisition of the rights to the Hansgrohe Superb and World Cup field racing, which were featured on FOUR and Sporza. These competitions are sent free for all Telenet customers, but it also lost several football competitions to the new group of Eleven Sports Network. As of December 5, 2015, The offer was eventually expanded with the new channels Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2, which have the rights to Spanish, Italian and French football competitions, NBA, NFL and ATP tennis. These channels are also included in the paying sports subscriptions of major Proximus competitors. From the football season 2016–2017, Play Sports made the full transition to HD for its 8 multisport channels. The golf channel is also broadcast in HD. Play Sports is the first sports package that makes the full transition to HD.

Since 2020–2021, Eleven Sports got the Belgian rights to Belgian football, so Play Sports 6, 7 and 8 were replaced by Eleven Pro League 1, 2 and 3 in August 2020.^[1]