The Complete Guide to Amazon Prime Football
Scroll down for the top 10 most frequently asked questions about Amazon Prime football.
Are you ready for Boxing Day?
1- Which matches will be shown on Amazon Prime football?
Here’s a list of confirmed Amazon Prime football games…
BOXING DAY 26TH
12.30pm
- Tottenham Hotspurs vs Brighton & Hove Albion
3pm
- Aston Villa vs Norwich City
- AFC Bournemouth vs Arsenal
- Chelsea v Southampton
- Crystal Palace v West Ham United
- Everton vs Burnley
- Sheffield United v Watford
5.30pm
- Manchester United vs Newcastle United
8pm
- Leicester City v Liverpool
27th DECEMBER
7.45pm
- Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City
2- Amazon Prime football after December
Amazon agreed a £90million deal with the Premier League to start streaming top-flight fixtures from this season.
Naturally, you’d expect a bucket load of football for that fee.
But, with only one week’s worth of football so far, and only Boxing Day advertised, what do we have to look forward to?
Amazon Prime football for January has yet to be advertised.
This doesn’t mean it hasn’t been confirmed but doesn’t help you decide whether to pay for Amazon Prime once your Boxing Day free trial has expired.
3- How much does Amazon Prime football cost?
You can get Amazon Prime football for free on Boxing Day by registering for a free 30 day trial of Amazon Prime.
You will also get all the Amazon Prime benefits like this:
- Unlimited One-Day Delivery on eligible items at no extra cost.
- Unlimited Same-Day (Evening Delivery) on eligible items to eligible postcodes at no extra cost.
- Amazon Day: Choose a weekly delivery day for the items you buy throughout the week.
- Prime Video for unlimited streaming of movies and TV episodes.
- Prime Photos for secure, unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive.
- Amazon Music Unlimited is Amazon’s version of Spotify or Apple Music.
- Kindle Owners’ Lending Library gives Prime members access to borrow one book per month at no additional cost.
- Kindle First gives Prime members early access to download a new book every month at no additional cost from the Kindle First picks.
- Prime Wardrobe allows members to try before they buy from eligible clothing, shoes, watches and accessories across women’s, men’s, kids’ and baby categories.
- Twitch Prime: Twitch.tv users get ad-free viewing on Twitch, a Twitch channel subscription every month.
4- How do I get Amazon Prime football access?
Assuming you haven’t already had a qualifying trial, you can sign up to Amazon Prime here to start your free trial.
This will give you access across all devices. You only need to sign up once.
You can sign up for the £7.99 option here.
5- Amazon Prime football presenters
The Amazon Prime football build up consists of a combination of these presenters and pundits:
Gabby Logan
Every sports fan knows Gabby Logan. You’ll have seen her most recently on Back of The Net on Amazon Prime with John Bishop and Peter Crouch.
Eilidh Barbour
Eilidh has been a regular presenter of golf coverage for BBC Sport. As a lifelong St Johnstone fan, she joins the line up of Amazon Prime football presenters.
Jim Rosenthal
Jim has been twice named Royal Television Society’s Sports Presenter of the Year and has covered major sporting events like the 2003 Rugby World Cup final and even his own slot on MUTV.
The Amazon Prime football commentary and pundit team is made up of:
- Adam Hunt
- Alan Shearer
- Alex Scott
- Ally McCoist
- Andy Townsend
- Catherine Whitaker
- Clive Tyldesley
- Conor McNamara
- Darrell Currie
- Derek Rae
- Dermot Gallagher
- Dion Dublin
- Eni Aluko
- Glenn Hoddle
- Graeme Le Saux
- Guy Mowbray
- Harry Redknapp
- Ian Darke
- Jermaine Jenas
- Joe Cole
- Jon Champion
- Karthi Gnanasegaram
- Kevin Kilbane
- Lee Dixon
- Les Ferdinand
- Lynsey Hooper
- Marcus Buckland
- Matt Holland
- Matt Smith
- Michael Owen
- Owen Hargreaves
- Peter Crouch
- Peter Schmeichel
- Robbie Savage
- Roberto Martinez
- Seema Jaswal
- Steve Bower
- Sue Smith
- Thierry Henry
- Tim Sherwood
6- Is Amazon Prime football behind Sky Sports or BT Sport?
Amazon Prime football is advertised as live. Therefore viewers (and paying customers) are expecting an experience as close to being at the game as possible.
Lots of queries hit social media about the delay of Amazon Prime football compared to the likes of Sky Sports and BT Sport.
And these are usually behind most betting apps already.
How many times have you been watching a game and Skybet has popped up to ruin the next 30 seconds of the game for you? 😡
7- Is Amazon Prime football blurry or bad quality?
We’ve already had a week where every single Premier League game was televised.
This seems to be Amazon’s selling point…
WATCH EVERY GAME LIVE!
But, the reality is that almost everybody watched one game at a time, totally probably four overall.
Although a few people definitely tested the multi-screen TV/iPad/phone combination, only to realise that their internet wasn’t quite good enough.
As a rough guide, Amazon Prime football bandwidth is recommended by Amazon as follows:
- Standard Definition (SD) videos: 1Mbps
- High Definition (HD) videos: 3.5MBps
The reality is that you will have other devices/ people using the internet at the same time as the football is on.
Before you invest in Amazon Prime football, make sure you have a decent fibre connection. Personally, I’d suggest at least 20Mbps download before you even attempt to stream your games on Boxing Day.
If you’re unsure of your current speeds, you can do a free test here. Just make sure you hit go rather than clicking on any of the ads.
8- Will Amazon Prime football be shown in pubs?
There’s not a lot that beats going to watch the game in a pub with your mates.
So this is an extremely important question.
With pubs already paying for Sky Sports and BT Sport, another subscription could be seen as a deterrent.
However, if a game is going to attract a group of 5 to go and buy 15 pints and 5 packets of crisps, it practically pays for itself.
According to matchpint.co.uk, yes, all 20 fixtures will be made available to commercial premises this December through Amazon’s Premier League Pass.
“Any pub, bar or club wishing to show the games will be able to do so through their existing set-top box equipment and satellite dish — whether that’s Sky, BT or Virgin.”
9- Does Amazon Prime football work with Apple TV?
Amazon Prime Video has been available on Apple TV since 2017.
You don’t need to do anything differently is you’re already an Amazon Prime Video customer via an Apple TV.
You can also use Amazon Prime football on both Android and iOS or via your games console.
10- So, is Amazon Prime football any good?
The jury is out as to whether Amazon Primes’s football coverage is superior to that of Sky Sports or BT Sport.
Fans’ favourites like Jamie Redknapp and Gary Neville have not been lured in by Amazon and remain committed to Sky. On the other hand, under fire pundits like Michael Owen have not been poached.
Amazon has retained the fresh talent of Peter Crouch. His transition from professional footballer to football media king has been instant due to his ability to *be a normal bloke*.
The coverage itself is a little behind due to the nature of live streaming any service. That said, you are paying £7.99 (or nothing) for the service.
For fans looking for a cheaper alternative than Sky or BT, Amazon Prime football is a no brainer. Just make sure you turn off your phone notifications so the next goal or red card isn’t ruined.
For fans already paying for Sky or BT, there is no need to invest in another platform for football…yet.
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