Watch the World Cup Matches and Highlights Online

June 5th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

One of the more interesting non-football related elements from this World Cup is the proliferation of video and online streaming of matches and highlights. From watching a keeper score a goal to seeing Peter Crouch robot dance to the friendlies beamed onto your computers by Chinese pirates via Israel, you have no shortage of opportunities to watch football on the Internet. For a lucky few, this will include the opportunity to watch entire World Cup matches on your computer.

You’ve probably heard by now that the BBC will stream all of its World Cup matches live on the Internet. This is a huge development considering they are providing this service is for free and how much it is going to screw employers. The only drawback is that the online streams are only available to those who live in the UK. I’ve asked my fantastic tech geek friends if there is a way around this for those who live elsewhere in the world. They say it is very hard to do but that undoubtedly some people will figure out a way. If you happen to know of a way to circumvent this, drop me a line. I promise not to reveal your name to the authorities.

In the United States, a limited number of people will also be able to watch World Cup matches on ESPN360. Again, this is a free service but it is only available to people who subscribe to high speed Internet service providers Adelphia Communications Corp., Bend Broadband, Charter Communications Inc., Grande Communications, Mediacom Communications, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, Susquehanna Communications, US Cable, and Verizon Communications Inc., among others. Might want to give your cable provider a buzz to see if you can sign up to listen to ESPN’s excruciating announcers online.

In Brazil, all 64 matches will be streamed live through the Globo web portal. This is available only to online viewers in Brazil and does require a subscription fee between 7.90 reals (US$3.43; 2,69€) to 14.90 reals (US$6.40; 5,02€) for the entire tournament, depending on your connection speed.

For the rest of us, we can always hope that the Chinese pirates come through to broadcast the games. There is also the official FIFA website, which will post video highlights of each match an hour after the final whistle.

You can also tune into World Cup Blog where we’ll be liveblogging each match, as well as posting videos and pictures from the various World Cup venues.

What a great time to be alive.

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Mike

Hoping to catch a few of the games online while I work. Other than that I will be recording them at home.
http://cole007.net Cole Henley

As a UK-based AOL user who has been unable to view ‘UK only’ content on the BBC website in the past, I will be interested to see if this will affect my ability to view their World Cup coverage.
Futahaguro

Poppycock. My provider is not one who streams ESPN360:( Oh well, I will just say thank you to Captain Ahab and his crew of pirates.
frits

Find a proxy-server in de UK:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=723075
A-D Dennehey

Video and online streaming of sporting events is the way forward and alongside with the increasing TV coverage of tournaments will keep on increasing.

Although watching on the TV is far easier the Web is the way 4ward and in years to come you’ll be able to see all your teams games on the internet/TV.

Football teams have there own TV Channels – Man Utd, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona as do a vast majority of MLB teams in Baseball.

So it won’t surley take that long for people to log on to their tv stations online and select whatever channel they want to see – with the same quality of picture and sound (without freezing) of what you’d get of your TV.
Nar

World cup
sadoc

I’m looking forward to the pirate crew to come through on this. I would love to watch the matches while at work.
kurt

hey, saw this blog page ,we are nepali students studying over china and we don’t hav any facilities of any kinds of foreign channels here, so i am looking forward for help frm any of you out there to make it possible to watch the world cup in our cyber cafe out here, hoping for the fun bye,
sarey

i wish germany wins the world cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.knightshot.com nezam

i wold like to see the matches on line by my pc. is that possible?
John Nadar

May INDIA qualify in next world cup it would be the best time for us… till then best of luck for GREMANY!!!
http://www.ecom.7p.com valentine

men, i wld like to watch this wld cup online-free. Though Nigeria is not there but, albeit i need this. fellow Techies find a way round this bug, and give a fast streaming video. No buffering time lag allowed please.
Sameer

Best of luck 2 BRAZIL n FRANCE n BECKAM!!!
Sudarshan Nadar

Football Fan are all FOOLs!!!
EDDIE

I NEED HELP, PLEASE HELP ME.
I WANT TO WATCH WHILE AT WORK.
WHERE CAN I GO????
BENNETT

I just tried the chinese site, and indeed they’re showing it (i think it was something like soku.com) but my online translator says the error message they have up there in chinese reads only for viewers in mainland china. good for those students posting above, but alas, not for me here in the us. aargh. someone please find and post something that works!
Evie D

Sudarshan Nadar – I am an avid football fan, which makes me a fool acoording to you…Do I sense some anger and jealously in your tone, since India is the second most populated country in the World and can not find 11 soccer players? In your heart your are a soccer fan but jealous pathetic one.
Venom

calm down Evie >_
Venom

you don’t need to waste your time with people who’ll never learn
soly man

i want to see the matches now what can i do????????????????
marios

i want to see the matches now what can i do??
Deb

to those of u in the US, try getting univision TV channel. they provide free terrestrial signals and they are broadcasting all the games live. i just finished watching the inaugaural game using a TV tuner card on my PC. i plan to watch the remaining games that way too. best of luck!
junior

does anyone know where i can at least listen to live commentary ?? I can live with that.
manuel

I guess no one has found a site where we can watch the game online for free?
Nobel

Install this TV station player.. it has esp2/espn/abc..they will cover all the games….I am already watching…..

//and laugh at that indian…

we are Bangladeshi..Football rocks

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=60OB4XGA
Nobel

Here is another one……

It works….

http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/
Adel

Hi Nobel, i hope it will work tomorrow!
amit

good..
chewbacca

nobel dude, thanks a fucking bunch! just in time to catch the england vs. paraguay match! and yes we bangalis do kick a lot of ass!
Sandagaa

Cool!!!!
HappierNow

Genius! Was going out of my mind, thx a lot.

soku.com btw, doesnt seem to be showing the game…. i tried with a translator program, but even from here (HK) i cant get it to work, and i ave no idea why, as the translator doesnt work on the video content
HappierNow

P.s. Where do i find this fabled Chinese TechnoPirate website?
Lena

Desperately trying to view/listen to world cup online from Thailand but to no avail.. anyone know where to get coverage online? audio would suffice at this stage..
Junior

I am in JApan, Where can I to seee the World Cup 2006 Matches?

Thanks
Dino Zoff

I’m watching the games online from
http://www.worldcupwatcher.com

enjoy
http://watchworldcup.blogspot.com/ andrew

hi guys, you may want to check this out also… very useful!! =)
patrick

hi, you can see the WorldCup online (free)at: http://www.tvunetworks.com/downloads/TVUPlayer.zip
nice view
patrick
AngS

So it seems that you can listen to every game live on this radion station online : http://www.talksport.net/

Then if you have telemundo on your tv and don’t understand spanish, perhaps that’s the way to enjoy your soccer! Go Japan!
Maximo

Nobel, thanks for the info. You just changed the life of all football fans living in American Samoa.
Thank a lot
Nobel

lolllzzzz

Don’t tahnk me no more……….
tooo much to handle……..

put the balls in the goals…
Nobel

oops! I should say no more THANKS !!
AK

thanks for the porgram now i can watch italy vs ghana
1-0 italy half time :D
http://www.geocities.com/tigger_porn xxx_ira_007

You know,

You just replace nb with bb, on the BBC page, in both the relative and absolute urls to get the broadband viewer, which is broadcasting at around 220kbs which is only really 30KBs so it doesn’t even look that great at full screen resolution. NB stands for narrow band and BB stands for broadband and they are codes the bbc javascript player is using. The base url should be the same for all the games. However, of course you would need to have the url from someone in the UK with broadband, though I’m sure you could find that. And it is probably secure and encrypted?Of course that might not work if it is secure, and you will still need the real player or windows media codecs or players of course. Personally I’m going to be watching them on ESPN and Univision. This is the first time I can remember since 1978 not having to stay up all night to watch them live, ESPN is broadcasting them during the day. Glad I’m off for the summer. Good luck to you at work.

Does anyone know of a site where you can download the highlights and goals from the games? Univision, FIFA/Cosmos/Yahoo and BBC are all offering streaming video highlights but so far I haven’t seen any sites, besides my own, offering free downloads of the clips. I managed to temporarily get around the problem at Univision, and I was hoping BBC would be offering the free goal clips for download, but they don’t appear to? Only streaming highlights. Maybe I missed it or it is also only for the UK broadband or paying customers. I’m simply offering the univision clips to view at fullscreen or to download, but I’d like to know if there are any other sites where they are available free because I’m pretty sure Univision changed their codec.
Can’t really complain, just wish the fuckheads at ESPN would either broadcast the games live or stop showing the results on sports center before the games!

Is Rosicky the next Ronaldino, Beckham or Zinedine?!? I’m in the US, don’t think they’ll make it out of the first round, rooting hard for Claudio though.
It will probably be Brazil or Germany or Czech to win it all though.
junior

what channel on stream tv is showing the world cup games i downloaded it but can’t the games anywhere… I there software is serioiusly lying about their channels. half of them don’t even work.!! help what channel is it giving on … maybe that guy patrick knows since he recommended it?
http://www.juegaloya.com Johnny

I HAVE THE SOLUTION TO ALL WHO WANNA SEE THE FOOTBALL MATCHES ABSOLUTELY FREE. I HAVE A WEBSITE CALLED JUEGALOYA.COM http://www.juegaloya.com . YOU MUST DO A CLICK ON THE BANNER WHO TELLS “WATCH ALL THE MATCHES FREE” , AND A WINDOW WILL OPEN WITH THE FOOTBALL MATCHES LIVE. YOU HAVE 4 TV STATIONS THERE. IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE FIRST, YOU MUST DO A CLICK ON THE FIFA TROPHY, IF YOU DON LIKE THE SECOND, ANOTHER CLICK AND ALL LIKE THIS TO THE END OF THE FOOTBALL TV TUNER. I HOPE ENJOY THE MATCHES FROM MY SITE AND HELP ME VISITING THE BANNERS;)
BEST WISHES FROM ARGENTINA AND SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH
JOHNNY
http://www.juegaloya.com/mundial.php hamzeh

open this link to watch fifa world cup matches online http://www.juegaloya.com/mundial.php
http://www.juegaloya.com/mundial.php hamzeh

very good
http://www.juegaloya.com/mundial.php hamzeh

brzil well wen the cup and all the teams down
and

Jordan first
junior

just found a webste that is streaming live coverage…if anyone is interested post a comment then I’ll post it …don’t want to give it away and risk everyone overwhelming the site .. that http://www.juegaloya.com/mundial.php seems to be shut down already.
junior

i should say that it’s only audio
JHONNY

HEY MY SERVICE PROVIDER “DATTATEC ARGENTINA” SUSPENDED MY WEBSITE JUEGALOYA.COM FOR EXCESIVE TRAFFIC BUT SOON WILL BE AVALIABLE :( SO IF YOU CAN’T SEE THE WEBSITE VISIT http://WWW.NEWHOTORNOT.COM WHO HAS A COPY OF MY WEBSITE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCES AND BEST WISHES TO ALL :)
http://www.juegaloya.com Johnny

THERE IN http://WWW.NEWHOTORNOT.COM OR http://WWW.JUEGALOYA.COM YOU MUST CLICK ON THE BANNER OF FIFA WORLD CUP AND YOU’LL START TO SEE THE MATCHES. IF YOU DON’T SEE THE FIRST CHANNEL YOU CAN CLICK ON THE FIFA CUP IMAGE AND WILL APPEAR THE TRANSMISSION ON OTHER CHANNEL. YOU HAVE 4 CHANNELS AVALIABLE. BEST WISHES TO ALL AND ENJOY THE FIFA WORLD CUP! :)
Ron

This TVU method does indeed work. I am not much of a tech guru, so I apologize. Here is how I did it: You need to download, unzip, and install a program called TVUPlayer from this link: http://www.tvunetworks.com/downloads/TVUPlayer.zip . It takes a couple of minutes to do this, so don’t be impatient. Once I downloaded, unzipped and ran it, it did not display any channels to play. To get a listing of some channels, I typed in “ESPN” in a box near the lower right corner (left of the volume). Once I did this, about 20 channels popped up in the black box on the left side. Among them were ESPN, ESPN 2 and ABC. Clicked on ESPN 2 and, walla, I am getting ready to watch Germany v Poland right now. Getting my soccer fix on now.
Michael

Yes sir!!! Newhotornot is da best!!! :) I’m watching Germany – Poland right now!!!
http://WWW.NEWHOTORNOT.COM
Johnny

I wanna tell to all the users that http://www.juegaloya.com is working good again to watch all the matches of the fifa world cup. Best wishes to all and enjoy :)
Alanna

In Brazil, the matches are available on-line only through Globo, so if you have a different internet provider, you have to switch internet providers and sign on for 12 months! I WISH I could just sign up for 12 reais!
http://worldcupsopcast.blogspot.com/ pkrbt

Instructions for watching are here. http://worldcupsopcast.blogspot.com/
My guide is easy and simple
http://www.blogcharm.com/abysspc/ rickxtreme

If you want to see all games of world cup by internet for free just go to this link: http://www.blogcharm.com/abysspc/
saludos/regards
rickxtreme
MICHAEL

http://WWW.JUEGALOYA.COM
http://WWW.NEWHOTORNOT.COM
BOTH SITES HAVE THE BEST STREAMING OF THE NET AND 100% FREE :-) . I’M WATCHING MEXICO-ANGOLA INTO MY OFFICE!!
THANKS FOR YOUR WEBSITE JOHNNY!!!

MICHAEL
Paramesh

HEY THAX. the site is workin well. Well who ever gave published this site, thax a lot…….
Doryanoo

What site or program i can see the match.. PLEASE!
waawn

DEUTSCHLAND……jetzt geht loss

DEUTSCHLAND…… finale…ooooo
DEUTSCHLAND…… finale…ooooo
DEUTSCHLAND…… finale…ooooo

POLEN ist vorbei
Johnny

The best sites to watch the world cup are:
http://www.juegaloya.com
http://www.newhotornot.com
Both sites are 100% free and don’t need nothing to install. Just open the web and click on the banner “watch all the matches 100% free”
Enjoy and good luck
Johnny
Bob

India scum!!!!!!!!!
http://www.yagooya.com Fadi

Due to the High number of requests for this,

me and my couzin created a website where you can watch the FiFa World Cup 2006 for Free..
It has 16 channels that are broadcasting the World Cup Live for FREE.

The BEST ones are Channels 1 to 5..

Step 1
———
Go To http://www.yagooya.com

Step 2
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Click Register on the main page, it takes exactly 15 seconds to register.
All you need to fill in is your:
- Username – Password – Email

Step 3
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After you are registered, go back again to http://www.yagooya.com

Step 4
———
Now click ” Watch World Cup Live” and follow directions on that page.

Let the FUN Begin!!!

If you have any questions, please write back to me or my cuzin at admin@yagooya.com

fadi
http://www.bbcproxy.com/ bbcproxy

Viewing World Cup games online is easy with true UK proxy http://www.bbcproxy.com/
http://www.worldcupcountries.vze.com Bas

How many people watch the world cup in usa, india and china?

http://worldcupcountries.vze.com
Nobel

10^10000 people ! owo ! lolz…
Ria

Can anyone please tell me, is there any website that I can watch the World Cup live (free of course) WITHOUT having to download a specific player. I have all the standard ones i.e. windows media player, real etc but work will not allow me to download or install new programs. This is urgent as I need to know before tomorrows Italy game.
http://goals.infigaro.com infigaro

Its not live goals here but at least you know how the goals are scored :)
http://goals.infigaro.com
http://www2.websitewizard.com ahmed

this site shows the germany world cup matchs directly live free
http://www2.websitewizard.com/
http://www2.websitewizard.com ahmed

fadi you are the only arabian here like me can you tell me how you created this website
hoho

Here is another one free streaming.

http://www.metaticle.com/2006/06/watch-free-live-world-cup-2006/
michael

does anyone know where i can download the fifa world cup highlights? i dont want the whole games just the 3 min highlights. does anyone know where i can get these?
http://hkbigmind.blogspot.com Jon Mariano

for audio only link, check this out, it’s from the The Sun from UK.
Nobel

jogo bonita….
SS_80

France will win the WORLD CUP 2006
msklifesux

TVU Player is good.
download it!
i just finished watching France Vs Portugal
More users, Better Quality!!
Took me fuc*en 3 horus to find this so make sure you appreciate it!
Tanya

hey!!
if there just NO way to watch the match on the internet in india?? that’s not fair….help me…pls…
Galen

Hey! I’ve gone to some of these free websites for watching the World Cup…it’s on here in the US in about 1 hour…and the problem is the buffering. I’m on hi-speed internet…do not know the exact speed but I know I do not have the fastest. Can anyone help me with the buffering thing? Thanks!
kaj

um, the games over. ITALIA WON! YAY!
but you could have watcxhed it with TVUPlayer…there was another article which was commented on heavily about where to watch online. hope you guys caught it (and the game! omg)
kaj

SOPcast is/was another possibility.
philipine kuttar desh

oiiiiiiiiiii kuttttttttttaraa

how to watch highlights of the world cup????????
philippines is not for football

hey don’t pretend the filipinos do not watch soccer. bloody stupid where was ur exitement during the world cup.
jesus is dead

i hate jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jesus and christians r son of bitches

go hindus!!!!!!! jai hind!