You can’t watch the 18/19 Champions League in the UK for free on the TV anymore but you can on the internet. Most people can find illegal streams in 2007 quality, but what if you want to watch in HD, legally, and without having to wait for your content to buffer every few minutes due to too many people watching for what the servers can handle? Well, this post is about how to watch the Champions League in the UK for free on the Internet in HD.
BT acquired exclusive rights to the Champions League in the UK for the next 3 season for £1.2 billion. That means that BT is the only company in the UK that can show the Champions League for the next 3 seasons.
ITV and BBC won’t be able to do that, and those are the platforms that made the Champions League in the UK free. Now, of course, BT might decide to give rights to the BBC and ITV for some Champions League games in the UK, but it cost BT a lot of money to get those rights. Matter of fact, they overpaid, meaning that BT won’t be giving any rights for matches away for cheap. And that means you will more than likely miss out on the matches you want to watch.
And due to that, most people will search for the name of the match they are about to watch with a “for free” at the end. Either you will find a site that looks promising but that takes you to ads that often contain malware, or you will find a legit stream that often stops playing and isn’t of the greatest quality. But a stream that you will end up watching because being able to see that somebody is running with a ball even if you are not sure about who it is, is for sure better than nothing at all right?
We have a much better solution!
We live in 2018, in a world where pretty much every TV channel has a streaming platform online. And the free to air channels that do, obviously, don’t charge for online access. So what if you found platforms that show the Champions League and have an online player? That’s what you have to do.
The only problem? Well, most of these platforms have rights to show the Champions League only in that country they are based on, and due to that, they block the access to people outside of these countries.
RTE and TV3 or now called Virgin Media Two, are two examples of online platforms that will let you watch the 18/19 Champions League in the UK for free on the internet in HD. Provided you use a VPN to be in Ireland, in most cases.
Now, if you don’t know what a VPN service is, it’s a virtual private network that essentially allows you to be in a different location without being there, as far as the internet is concerned.
But these platforms won’t show all of the games present. That’s why you should go into the Wikipedia page with the right holders for the Champions League. That way you can find other players. You will have to most likely also use a VPN for these services. Make sure to connect to a country that the channels are based in.
If you use PrivateVPN, you will be able to connect to a VPN location in most of the countries that show the Champions League, for free.
And that’s how you watch the 18/19 Champions League in the UK for free on the internet in HD!
There is a way that costs that allows you to watch any match of your choice, in English though.
We know how it feels when you don’t support a top team. Maybe you aren’t from the UK but live there. What if you want to watch a team from your country play in the Champions League but you can’t because only the most popular matches get shown?
That’s where DAZN comes in. DAZN is a subscription service for streaming sports. It costs just under £12 per month and whether you want to watch the 18/19 Champions League in the UK for free or whether you seek the likes of Serie A, with DAZN you can watch most sporting events.
Only if you have a VPN though as DAZN isn’t available in the UK.
Except, with DAZN, it’s a lot more complicated as DAZN blocks VPN services all the time and just about all VPN servers don’t work with DAZN.
PrivateVPN is one of the only services that supports DAZN. If you connect to our second Toronto server, it will work.
It’s not as simple as using a VPN when it comes to DAZN though. Setting up DAZN is much more complicated, especially when it comes to installing apps. For that, we recommend you read our post about setting DAZN up. This method work for all countries!
Written by Michael Smolski.