Watch Confederations Cup 2009 Matches Live Television Channels

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USA vs Brazil FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 Final: Live Updates

You know that South Africa will host 2010 FIFA World Cup and the whole world is eagerly waiting to see football’s biggest tournament in African continent. Well, for those who can not hold on their patience, FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 is now out there in South Africa. The tournament involves champions of continental competitions and world champion Italy and host South Africa.

There are two groups of four teams each. All the teams will play against other group members once in the group stage and top two teams from each group will go into the semi final stage based on points achieved in the group stage.

A number of television channels are going to cover this tournament, which is ranked second after World Cup in terms of prestige. Covering the tournament involves lots of money and it is a very good chance for television channels to make some good cash in using the global appeal of the tournament.

Well, I admit that Confederations Cup does not have as much appeal as World Cup has among the football fans. Still, some of the popular television channels across the world would cover the tournament, considering the fact that football fans would be interested to see the strength of the squads of their favorite teams ahead of next year’s world cup. Here, I am giving a list of television channels which will cover the tournament:

BBC Three and Red Button TV Channel

BBC is covering all the matches of the Confederations Cup 2009. There are two games on each match day, except the semi final games. Evening games will be telecast live on BBC Three television channel, while the afternoon games will be shown live on digital interactive television channel BBC Red Button. Besides, all the matches will be telecast live on BBC Online for the US football fans.

Gabby Logan, popular presenter of BBC, will lead the BBC television team and former Arsenal star Lee Dixon will join him in discussion. Commentary team includes Jonathan Pearce, Guy Mowbray and Steve Wilson as well as co-commentators Mark Bright and Martin Keown. If you want to get the BBC schedule for the tournament, then click here.

ESPN TV Channel

ESPN television channel will telecast the matches of the tournament live for the South Asian football fans. ESPN has an expert team of analysts as well as quality commentators. So, you can expect quality coverage of the tournament on ESPN. So, if you are currently in India or other South Asian countries, then you can tune on to ESPN to enjoy the matches of Confederations Cup 2009. If you are interested then you should check out the ESPN schedule of Confederations Cup 2009 here.

Super Sports

Super Sports is one of the most popular sports channels in Africa. As the tournament is being taken place in South Africa, it is pretty much understandable that Super Sports would cover the tournament for the football fans of this region. Yes, Super Sports is telecasting the matches of the tournament live for its viewers and you can get the schedule of the channel here.

There are some other television channels which are covering the tournament in several regions of the world. You can get the list of the television channels which are telecasting the matches of Confederations Cup 2009 live in different regions around the world here.