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Play Sports, formerly calledPrime Sport (2005–2012) andSporting Telenet (2012–2015), is a brand name owned by the Belgian cable distributor Telenet, consisting of a bundle of television channels. Through television stations, competitions from various European football competitions, including TheBelgian Jupiler Pro League. In addition, Play Sports includes American NBA Basketball, American Football, and Golf. In March 2014, it also acquired the rights to broadcast Formula 1 until 2019. In July 2015, the name changed From Sporting Telenet to Play Sports. At the same time, the offer of other sports was expanded extensively, including the acquisition of the rights to the Hansgrohe Superb and World Cup field racing, which were featured on FOUR and Sporza. These competitions are sent free for all Telenet customers, but it also lost several football competitions to the new group ofEleven Sports Network. As of December 5, 2015, The offer was eventually expanded with the new channels Eleven Sports 1 and Eleven Sports 2, which have the rights to Spanish, Italian and French football competitions, NBA, NFL and ATP tennis. These channels are also included in the paying sports subscriptions of major Proximus competitors. From the football season 2016–2017, Play Sports made the full transition to HD for its 8 multisport channels. The golf channel is also broadcast in HD. Play Sports is the first sports package that makes the full transition to HD.
Since 2020–2021,Eleven Sports got the Belgian rights to Belgian football, so Play Sports 6, 7 and 8 were replaced by Eleven Pro League 1, 2 and 3 in August 2020.[1]
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