Eurosport 2

Country	France United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Europe United States Latin America the Caribbean
Network	Eurosport
Headquarters	Issy-les-Moulineaux,Paris
Programming
Languages	English,Swedish,French,Italian,German,Greek,Hungarian,Bulgarian,Russian in CIS (except Russia),Polish,Romanian,Serbian,Croatian,Turkish,Czech,Slovak,Portuguese,Albanian,Dutch,Spanish (specific events),Danish,Finnish,Norwegian
Picture format	2160pUHDTV (downscaled to1080i and576i for theHDTV andSDTV feeds respectively)
Ownership
Owner	TNT Sports (operated byWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA)
Parent	TNT Sports International
Sister channels	List Eurosport 1 Animal Planet Discovery Discovery HD Discovery Historia Discovery History DMAX Spain Discovery Science DMAX Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Liechtenstein Food Network Investigation Discovery Real Time Italy TLC Netherlands TLC Poland Travel Channel
History
Launched	10 January 2005; 20 years ago (2005-01-10)
Replaced	Eurosport DK (Denmark) Eurosport News (some countries)
Closed	9 March 2022; 3 years ago (2022-03-09) (Russia) 28 February 2025; 8 months ago (2025-02-28) (United Kingdom)[1][2]
Links
Website	eurosport.com
Availability
Terrestrial
See separate section
Streaming media
Discovery+	Watch live (subscription required)
DAZN	Watch live (Italy only)
Ziggo GO	Watch live (Netherlands only)

Eurosport 2 is a sports television channel and a sister channel toEurosport 1. Both are part of theEurosport network which is a unit ofEMEA version of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, with different sports rights across different markets. Eurosport 2 had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019 -- an increase in size of one million.^[3]

Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005, replacingEurosport News in some countries including the United Kingdom.^[4] It is currently available in 50 million homes and 47 countries,^[5] broadcasting in 18 different languagesEnglish,Swedish,French,Italian,German,Greek,Hungarian,Russian,Bulgarian,Polish,Portuguese,Romanian,Serbian,Turkish,Czech,Dutch,Spanish andDanish.

On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 2 in Russia due toRussia's invasion of Ukraine.^[6]

Eurosport 2 considers itself "a new-generation sports channel", and is dedicated to team sports and in particular 'alternative' and niche sports including European basketball, National Lacrosse League,Twenty20 cricket,AFL Aussie Rules, surfing and the Handball Champions League, amongst others.

On 2 July 2010, theArena Football League announced that Eurosport 2 would show matches that the NFL Network broadcast in theUnited States on a tape delay for the rest of the season, as well as coverage ofArenaBowl XXIII. The deal also includes rights for the entire 2011 season to be broadcast on the channel.

Eurosport 2 HD, ahigh-definition version of the channel is also available.^[7] In central and northern Europe, it carries some exclusive programming such asBundesliga football fromGermany,WWE wrestling shows and liveAustralian Rules Football matches, which are not available on other versions due to local networks holding the rights.

Eurosport DK was a Danish television channel owned byDiscovery Networks Northern Europe. The channel replacedCanal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 in Denmark on 1 July 2015.^[8]

On 28 May 2015,Discovery Networks Northern Europe announced that they would mergeCanal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 into Eurosport DK in Denmark, broadcasting football fromDanish Superliga, theBundesliga,Major League Soccer,Capital One Cup,UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying, Tennis fromATP Tour,WTA Tour and 3Grand Slams, Cycling fromUCI World Tour,Winter sport,Motorsports.^[9]

On 15 February 2016, the channel was replaced by Eurosport 2.^[10]

Eurosport Norway is a Norwegian television channel that replaced Eurosport 2 on 3 September 2015.^[11] It is owned byDiscovery Networks Norway and broadcasts Norwegianeliteserien and other Eurosport programming.

Name
Andreas Evagora
Tony Jeffers
Angus Torode
Ben Harris
Elliot Richardson
Andreas Jörger
Stuart Telford
Mark Rodden

• Lattelecom(Latvia): Channel 51
• Polsat Box(Poland): Channel 113

• Allente(Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
• A1 Bulgaria(Bulgaria): Channel 145
• Antik Sat(Czech Republic): Channel 43
• Bulsatcom(Bulgaria): Channel 19
• Canal+: Channel 64
• Canal+ Caraïbes(Overseas France): Channel 125
• DigitAlb(Albania): Channel
• Digiturk(Turkey): Channel 72
• Direct One(Hungary): Channel 123
• D-Smart(Turkey): Channel 76
• Focus Sat(Czech Republic): Channel 68
• Home 3(Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia)
• MEO(Portugal): Channel 38
• Movistar Plus+(Spain): Channel 67 (SD)
• M:Sat TV(Serbia): Channel 40
• NOS(Portugal): Channel 131
• Nova(Greece): Channel 113
• Neosat (Bulgaria)
• Orange Polska(Poland): Channel 112
• Platforma Canal+(Poland): Channel 114
• Polsat Box(Poland): Channel 15
• Sky Italia(Italy): 211
• Telly(Czech Republic): Channel 30
• Tivibu(Turkey): Channel 72
• Telemach(Slovenia)
• Total TV(Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 181
• Total TV(Croatia): Channel 121
• Total TV(North Macedonia): Channel 171
• Total TV(Serbia): Channel 171
• T-Home(Hungary): Channel 49
• Viasat Ukraine(Ukraine)
• Vivacom(Bulgaria): Channel 215 (SD)

• Caiway(Netherlands): Channel 137 (HD)
• Com Hem(Sweden): Channel 103
• DELTA(Netherlands): Channel 151 (SD)
• Global Destiny(Philippines): Channel 36
• Digi TV(Hungary): Channel 37
• Hot(Israel): Channel 59
• Kabel Deutschland(Germany): Channel 373
• Kabel Noord(Netherlands): Channel 301 (HD)
• Lattelecom(Latvia): Channel 402
• Naxoo(Switzerland): Channel 81
• Numericable(France): Channel 152
• RCS&RDS(Romania): Channel 30
• Serbia Broadband: Channel 268 and Channel 137 (HD)
• Telenet(Flanders): Channel 211
• T-Home(Hungary): Channel 38
• T-Home Digital(Hungary): Channel S38
• UPC Digital(Hungary): Channel 46
• UPC Poland(Poland): Channel 564
• UPC Poland: Channel 566 and Channel 567 (HD)
• UPC Romania: Channel 211
• Vodafone TV(Spain): Channel 251 (HD)
• Ziggo(Netherlands): Channel 411 (HD)
• ZON TV(Portugal): Channel 28 (no coverage inMirandela)
• ArtMotion(Kosovo): Channel 81
• IPKO(Kosovo): Channel 217
• DigitAlb(Albania)
• Kujtesa(Kosovo): Channel 145

• Belgacom TV(Belgium): Channel 74 (Dutch) and Channel 85 (French)
• BT TV(United Kingdom): Channel 413 and Channel 436 (HD)
• eir Vision(Ireland): Channel 414 and Channel 428 (HD)
• KPN(Netherlands): Channel 36 (HD)
• MEO(Portugal): Channel 38
• MojaTV(Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 35
• Movistar+(Spain): Channel 62 (HD, SD)
• On Telecoms(Greece): Channel 47
• Open IPTV(Serbia): Channel 562
• Orange TV(Spain): Channel 101 (HD)
• Tele2(Netherlands): Channel 208 (SD)
• T-Home(Hungary)
• T-Mobile(Netherlands): Channel 132 (HD)
• Tivibu(Turkey): Channel 86
• Vodafone(Portugal): Channel 27
• iNES(Romania)

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