And here are Kwese TV’s rights granted by FIFA…

Kwese Sports has snagged what we think is its most significant deal since inception as it wades through the pay TV market.

Fifa has given it, through Econet Media, free-to-air and pay-TV transmission for exploitation in all territories of sub‑Saharan Africa except South Africa for the FIFA World Cup and other tournaments during that same period. The other 2017-2018 FIFA events comprise: FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017; FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017; FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017; FIFA Confederations Cup 2017; FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup 2018; FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2018

The Pay-TV transmission is important in that it gives them direct competition to SuperSport who announced their rights deal earlier on Thursday.

The contested territories are: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo DR, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Game on!