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MEDIA RELEASE ELEVEN SPORTS AND ONEFOOTBALL PARTNER TO SHOW PREMIUM EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Innovative partnership rolled out in Belgium with launch in other Eleven Sports markets to come Berlin/London, 20. SEPTEMBER 2019 - Eleven Sports and Onefootball have partnered to bring live streaming of top European football fixtures to football fans in Belgium and Luxembourg. The partnership will begin this weekend with the Derby della Madonnina – AC Milan v Inter Milan being made available on the Onefootball app. Onefootball, the world’s leading football media platform, provides the new generation of fans with breaking news, live scores, stats, features and videos in multiple languages on its own app. Eleven Sports Belgium holds the rights to broadcast LaLiga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, and in this new partnership it gives Belgian football fans another way to access its premium football offering, wherever they are. Eleven Sports and Onefootball have joined forces for the pay-per-view live streaming of 20 football matches throughout the season. Fans can watch a match of their choice for only €4.99 per game, both in Dutch and in French, directly in the Onefootball app. Lucas von Cranach, CEO of Onefootball said: "Offering live football matches on the Onefootball app is a next step in the evolution of our platform. Eleven Sports and Onefootball share the same vision about a dynamic and innovative fan experience of live football and how to engage with modern fans. We are therefore delighted with this partnership.” Guillaume Collard, Managing Director of Eleven Sports in Belgium and Luxembourg, added: “This partnership responds strongly to the demand of the viewer. Fans are increasingly looking for flexible ways to watch live sports. This collaboration with Onefootball meets that need and also allows us to reach an even wider fan base with our live matches.” The opening match of the Onefootball partnership will take place on Saturday 21 September, viewers in Belgium will be able to watch AC Milan v Inter Milan on the app. About ELEVEN SPORTS: ELEVEN SPORTS is an award-winning global sports provider dedicated to delivering world-class international and domestic sports and lifestyle entertainment. In just over two years, ELEVEN has become a young, dynamic brand that resonates globally as well as locally, engaging fans on-air and online, in local languages and a fresh tone of voice. ELEVEN SPORTS delivers more than 20,000 LIVE hours of top class sporting action to close to 17 million paying customers worldwide in Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. Live coverage of premium sports events is supplemented with news, comprehensive analysis, digital content and local programming. ELEVEN’s services are 24/7, multiscreen, full HD and locally produced to the highest international production standards. Follow us on LinkedIn: Eleven Sports HQ About Onefootball: Onefootball is the ultimate platform for football fans all around the globe. With a 24-hour Newsroom operating in six languages, over 20,000 news sources and its own video studio, Onefootball provides the new generation of football fans with breaking news, live scores, stats, features and videos in multiple languages on its own Onefootball platform and on social media channels such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Onefootball reaches more than 40 million football fans worldwide every month, making it the most popular curated media platform for modern football fans. Founded eleven years ago as one of the world's first 1,000 applications in the Apple App Store, the company now has 200 employees at its headquarters in Berlin and regional offices in London, New York, Mexico City and São Paulo. The Onefootball app has been awarded several times, most recently in 2017, as the best app product by Apple and Google. Press Contacts: Eleven Sports Alex Hannah +44 7792 998311 [email protected] Marc Schmidgall +49 151 18900758 [email protected] .