Serie A on TV: fixtures in UTC and who holds the rights

The season

The 2026/27 campaign began on 22 August 2026 and ends on 30 May 2027 — thirty-eight rounds played mostly across Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with the traditional Italian spread of kick-off slots from mid-afternoon to late evening. In UTC terms that means fixtures from roughly midday to 20:45, which is comfortable viewing across all four countries this page covers, unlike most of the American sport in this section.

Two confident rows, and one we are flagging

For Finland the answer is a domestic commercial broadcaster carrying every match across its streaming platform and its sports channels — a single subscription for the whole league. For the United States it is CBS: all 380 matches on its streaming service, with selected games on its network channels and its dedicated football channel.

The British and Irish rows are the ones to treat carefully. Our source lists a single pay broadcaster carrying all matches in both countries, and our own research note flags it as the one genuinely unresolved rights question in this map — the kind of row that needs the broadcaster's own page to confirm rather than a listings aggregator. So: that is what our source says, that is where it came from, and we would check a current schedule on the broadcaster's own site before subscribing on the strength of it. A page that tells you how confident it is beats one that sounds certain and is wrong.

Where the fixture table comes from

The table above is openfootball's Serie A schedule for 2026/27 (public domain, CC0), fetched nightly and converted from Italian local time to UTC. If a fetch fails or returns fewer upcoming rows than the file already holds, the previous file stands rather than an empty one. The rights panel and the season window hold for the whole campaign regardless of the feed, and the index gate is unchanged: this URL is listed only while it carries both a live fixture list and three operators whose own records say they price the league.

The betting shape of Italian football

• Lower scoring, tighter totals. The league's reputation for defensive organisation is priced in; the value is rarely in backing unders at the headline number, because everyone already knows.
• Draw prices are shorter than in most leagues. That changes the maths of any double chance or draw-no-bet position, and it changes what a "safe" multiple costs you.
• European commitments distort the midweek round. Rotation after Thursday fixtures is heavier in Italy than the price often implies.
• Card markets are volume markets. Popular, heavily promoted, and priced with a wider margin than the match result.

Streams, promotions and what we will not link

Bookmaker streaming exists in some of these territories, always tied to a funded account or a recent qualifying bet, always geo-restricted, always slightly behind the broadcast. It is a convenience feature; it is not a rights holder, and betting in-play against it means acting on information the market already has.

Unlicensed streams we will not name or link, in any country — unlawful, and a documented route to malware and card fraud. For the operators themselves, no record on this site currently claims coverage of this league, so nothing is listed; use the betting-site list, and the sportsbook bonus page if a welcome offer is what brought you here — it explains what those offers cost in turnover before they pay anything.

18+ and gambling responsibly

18+, or the legal age where you are. Operator availability depends on your country and each publishes its own licensing. Free, international support is listed on our responsible gambling page, and every licensed book here offers deposit limits and self-exclusion on request.