The Super Bowl is moving to Disney+.
Disney+ will stream Super Bowl 61 on February 14, alongside live broadcasts on ABC and ESPN. The arrangement gives Disney+ a major sports broadcast while bringing the game back to ABC for the first time since 2006.
ESPN will produce and carry the Super Bowl for the first time, with its broadcast available on Disney+. The service will stream the ESPN/ABC broadcast in the United States, along with the Spanish-language telecast on ESPN Deportes.
A Wider Broadcast Than One App
The Disney+ livestream will reach 55 global markets, including Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, South Africa, and Australia/New Zealand. Viewers will have access to the event in both English and Spanish, giving the platform two language feeds for the game.
The ESPN feed will reach more than 130 countries and territories through linear platforms. Disney+ will carry the game across its international markets, while ABC and ESPN handle the broadcast in the United States.
The Super Bowl has been televised in Spanish in the United States since 2014. Disney+ will now carry that Spanish-language option alongside ESPN Deportes, turning a familiar broadcast choice into part of the streaming package.
ABC’s return matters because it has been over 20 years since the Disney-owned broadcaster aired a Super Bowl game. The Walt Disney Company owns both ABC and Disney+, so this deal places the event across two parts of its television business instead of keeping it inside a single network outlet.
Disney+ Adds Monday Night Football
Disney+ will stream two Monday Night Football games throughout the season, extending the platform’s sports schedule beyond one oversized February event. The first game arrives on October 26, when the Philadelphia Eagles host the Dallas Cowboys.
Disney has not announced the other Monday Night Football game. That small missing detail is doing a lot of work: Disney+ has announced the expansion, but not the full shape of the package.
The move follows a recent pattern of streaming platforms taking turns with the biggest game on the calendar. Peacock streamed a Super Bowl last year, while Tubi handled it the year before that, making Disney+ the latest platform to add the event to its live programming.
Disney said in August that it had already sold all advertising space for the game. That gives the company a full commercial inventory before the February broadcast, leaving the remaining focus on distribution across Disney+, ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and the international markets.
For Disney+, Super Bowl 61 combines scale, language options, and regular-season football in one plan. The platform will carry the ESPN production, two Monday Night Football games, and a livestream available in 55 global markets — because apparently one giant sports broadcast was not enough.
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