Sky Deutschland has signed an agreement to broadcast the EHF Champions League for an additional three seasons ©EHF

Sky Deutschland has signed an agreement to broadcast the European Handball Federation (EHF) Champions League for an additional three seasons.

EHF Marketing GmbH, the marketing arm of the EHF, has confirmed the agreement which will run to the end of the 2019-20 season.

The deal, which started with the 2014-15 season, was brokered by MP & Silva, the leading global media rights agency responsible for the distribution of the media rights for the EHF’s top club competitions.

Sky Deutschland, with over 4.6 million customers, also recently announced a new deal with the German Bundesliga to show the national league from the start of the 2017-18 season.

Sky was also the official broadcaster of the International Handball Federation (IHF)World Championship played in Qatar in 2015.

The deal has been extended following the success of the agreement which began before the 2014/15 season ©Sky
The deal has been extended following the success of the agreement which began before the 2014/15 season ©Sky

The channel’s team of commentators and reporters includes well-known personalities from the sport
including former player Henning Fritz and coaches Martin Schwalb and Heiner Brand.

“Sky has brought a new quality to the reporting of handball over the last few seasons," said said David Szlezak, the managing director of EHF Marketing GmbH.

“We are looking forward to three further seasons of cooperation with our highly professional colleagues at Sky, during which we want to further improve the premium product in European club handball.

“Since the beginning of the cooperation in the 2014/15 season, Sky has recognised the attractiveness of the VELUX EHF Champions League and, with the additional cooperation with the national league as well this contract extension, we have paved the way for Sky to become the handball-broadcaster in Germany and Austria.”