What fans pay to watch football in the UK compared to France, Spain and Germany | OneFootball

Football lovers in the United Kingdom are paying considerably more a year than other countries to watch domestic football...

Fans of clubs not only in the EFL, but in England and the United Kingdom in general, will likely consider themselves as the most passionate in the world, following their teams up and down the land on a weekly basis.

But it is not just the regular match-going fans that are thought about - plenty of people are watching matches on television most days of the week, and that includes ones not involving their own club, but that cost is getting higher year-on-year.

Premier League matches, as well as EFL contests and European fixtures, are all being broadcasted and streamed on different platforms, and the prices of all of those put together is becoming expensive.

How much fans in the UK have to pay per year to watch football

As per research conducted by GiveMeSport (all figures come from here), football fans are set to be paying a four-figure sum on a yearly basis if they are wanting to be subscribed to every platform for domestic and European football.

The most expensive of those comes in the form of a Sky Sports subscription. They show Premier League action, as well as the EFL Cup and also plenty of EFL action, with every midweek match streamed live on the Sky Sports+ channel.

It costs £35 a month for Sky Sports, with of course all the other added sports on top of the footballing action, totalling to £420 a year for that one subscription.

Added onto that is TNT Sports, which comes in at £23 a month, which primarily shows all three European competitions - the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League - as well as a small amount of Premier League action, as well as the FA Cup, which of course has EFL involvement.

The BBC also show the FA Cup too, and that entails paying the license fee of £14.54 a month to watch, whilst Amazon Prime became the first full streaming service to grab the rights to football in 2018 with their Premier League coverage, and they have select Champions League matches for £8.99 a month, which will continue for the foreseeable future - even with Paramount taking over from TNT Sports as the main host of premier European football in 2027, which will add £5 a month to bills.

How much fans in Spain, Germany and France have to pay per year to watch football

Compared to what fans in England and the UK have to pay for their weekly footballing fix, people in other footballing nations such as Spain, Germany and France aren't parting ways with their cash as much.

Spain's domestic top tier - La Liga - is spread across three different platforms in the form of streaming giant DAZN, as well as Movistar+ and GOL Television, with the latter being free-to-air.

Movistar+ is setting Spaniards back £43.81 per month, with that service also providing every European competition, including the UEFA Youth League and the one-off UEFA Super Cup too, whilst DAZN also has La Liga 2 - the second tier of Spanish football - as well as Premier League, Bundesliga and Serie A action for £26.28.

That brings Spain's football cost on television to £70.09 - over £11 cheaper than what United Kingdom-based football fans are - and it's a similar case in Germany too.

German football fans have much more that they need to subscribe to, with the Bundesliga spread across Sky Deutschland, DAZN and RTL Deutschland, with DAZN proving to be the most expensive at £33.98, with UEFA Champions League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and even FA Cup action on there, as well as Germany's World Cup qualification matches.

Sky Deutschland, at £26.27, shows all domestic football, including the 2. Bundesliga division, as well as the DFB-Pokal cup competition, whilst free-to-air ARD and ZDF show the latter tournament - Amazon Prime also show one UEFA Champions League match a round for £7.88 a month, meaning that at £68.13 per month, it is slightly cheaper than Spain.

France trumps all though when all four countries are in the mix, with their football fans only being charged £49.40 per month for all of their content.

The biggest charge per month comes from Canal+ at £26.27, which provides coverage of all three premier European club competitions, as well as the Premier League, with domestic Ligue 1 coverage coming from Ligue 1+ at £9.99 and BeIN Sports at £13.14 a month - Ligue 2, the Coupe de France, Bundesliga, La Liga and FA Cup matches are also on this channel.