Al Jazeera Sports

Al Jazeera Sports ( _ar. الجزيرة الرياضية) is a popular Arabic-language sports channel launched in November 2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network. It has quickly grown and become the most popular sports channel in the Middle East, and has covered a wide range of major sporting events, such as the Euro 2004 soccer games in Portugal and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Al Jazeera Sports is based in Qatar, and is based in the same complex in Doha at TV Roundabout.

Channels

Al Jazeera Sport currently has 4 sister channels:Al Jazeera Sports +1, Al Jazeera Sports +2, Al Jazeera Sports +3 and Al Jazeera Sports HD.

Events

Notable events which Al Jazeera Sports and its sister channels have broadcasting rights to include:
*Olympics
*UEFA Champions League
*Italian Serie A
*La Liga of Spain
*Portuguese SuperLiga
*Dutch Eredivise
*Argentine League
*UEFA Cup
*English FA Cup
*League Cup
*UEFA European Championship
*Formula One
*MotoGP
*Superbike World Championship .

UEFA Champions League

Al Jazeera Sports pulled off a major coup by winning the rights for the UEFA Champions League for three seasons starting from season 2009-2010. The rights were previously with ART Sport.

In Qatar

Al Jazeera Sports was the first sports channel to be launched from Qatar. It has broadcasted events held in Qatar like the 2006 Asian Games, the Losail leg of the MotoGP, Qatari League, The Emir Cup, Heir Apparent Cup and also FIFA World Cup qualifying matches of Qatar.

Al Jazeera Sport Analysts

Since the launching of the channel in November 2003 Al Jazeera Sports have numbers of sports analyst in all the championships they air
* Sami Al Jaber: "Euro 2008"
* Arsène Wenger: "Euro 2008"
* Sam Allardyce: "Euro 2008"
* Peter Reid: "Euro 2008"
* David O'Leary: "Euro 2008"
* Paulo Futre: "Euro 2008"
* Rabah Madjer: SuperLiga, "Euro 2008"
* Tarak Dhiab: La Liga, "Euro 2008"
* Francisco Buyo: La Liga, "Euro 2008"
* Cesare Maldini: Serie A, "Euro 2008"
* Alessandro Altobelli: Serie A

Also number of retired players become guests in the channel programs
* Aldair: Serie A
* Benoit Cauet: Serie A

External links

* [http://www.aljazeerasport.net Official Site] ar icon
* [http://www.tvdarija.com/aljazeerasport.php Watch Aljazeerasport Online] fr icon