Fox Sports is set to disappear from Australian screens in 2027, with Foxtel Group bringing its three-decade-old sports brand together with Kayo Sports in one of the biggest changes to its sports offering in years.
The changes, unveiled at the Foxtel Group Upfront on Thursday evening, will see Fox Footy, Fox Cricket and Fox League renamed Kayo Footy, Kayo Cricket and Kayo League, while the remaining Fox Sports channels will become Kayo Sports.
The move will bring the two brands under the Kayo Sports name while retaining Fox Sports’ existing talent, journalism and production teams.
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Kayo SPORTS, a DAZN company, has unveiled a blockbuster 2027 line-up at the DAZN Media+ Upfront, bringing Australia’s biggest sporting moments together in one place and confirming its place as Australia’s sports leader.
Supporting the extraordinary line-up, it was also announced at the DAZN Media+ Upfront that in 2027, Australia’s two powerhouse sports brands, Fox Sports and Kayo SPORTS, will come together under one powerful Kayo SPORTS brand. The evolution combines Fox Sports’ three decades of authority, trusted journalism, world-class production and iconic sporting voices with Kayo SPORTS’ digital reach, fan connection and market-leading streaming experience.
As part of the transition, Fox Footy, Fox Cricket and Fox League will become Kayo Footy, Kayo Cricket and Kayo League, while all other Fox Sports channels will become Kayo SPORTS. While the names evolve, the talent, passion, insight, quality and commitment to fans that have made Fox Sports a central part of Australian sporting culture will remain creating an even stronger, sharper and more exciting future for Australian sport.
An unmatched line-up
Building on the record breaking 2026 seasons, in 2027, Kayo SPORTS and Foxtel will continue to be the only place to watch every AFL and NRL home-and-away game, live, with no ad-breaks during play, stunning 4K coverage for select matches and the world-class commentary and production.
Kayo SPORTS’ Summer of the Century is already underway, delivering Australia’s biggest cricket summer yet. With exclusive live coverage of South Africa, England and India, alongside the New Zealand Test series, every ball of the BBL and WBBL, and every over of the landmark 150th Test at the MCG, Kayo SPORTS is the place for cricket’s biggest summer.
The action continues on the track and in 2027, Kayo SPORTS remains the undisputed home of motorsport, with every Formula 1® and Supercars practice, qualifying session and race available live and on demand.
And at DAZN Media+ Upfront, Kayo SPORTS confirmed that it has renewed its MotoGP™ partnership into the next decade. The partnership, which is the longest running partnership between MotoGP and a broadcaster in the world, will extend beyond thirty years with the new deal, ensuring every MotoGP practice, qualifying session and race remains live on Kayo SPORTS, including the Australian MotoGP which welcomes a new home in Adelaide in 2027.
Also announced on the evening, Kayo SPORTS has extended its agreement with the America’s Cup to bring every moment of the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup to Australian fans. The Cup will see Team Australia return to the competition for the first time in almost three decades, with the dream trio of Olympic gold medallist and two-time World Sailor of the Year Tom Slingsby, three-time America’s Cup winner Glenn Ashby, and navigator from Australia’s famous 1983 victory, Grant Simmer, leading the challenge against current Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand. Alongside SailGP, the addition of the America’s Cup makes Kayo SPORTS Australia’s home of sailing.
And confirming its place as Australia’s home of golf, Kayo SPORTS also announced an extension to its long-standing partnership with the PGA TOUR, ensuring golf fans can enjoy every event of the season. On top of this, subscribers can enjoy all the men’s majors, the Australian Open, the BMW Australian PGA Championship and the DP World Tour, as well as the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship.
Foxtel Group Executive Director – Commercial, Sport Adam Howarth said:
“Our $1 billion annual investment in sports rights and production is what enables us to bring Australians an unrivalled breadth and depth of sport, while also delivering value well beyond the screen through grassroots sport, community programs and pathways for the next generation.”
“In 2027, Kayo SPORTS will bring fans an extraordinary line-up of live sport, with more of the biggest competitions, teams and moments Australians love, all in one place.”
“The scale of that offering, combined with the quality of the viewing experience and world-class production from Fox Sports, is what defines the value of Kayo SPORTS.”
“It’s a proposition that is uniquely Australian, but now backed by the global reach, expertise and ambition of DAZN.”
Home to every big sporting moment, on the field and off, in 2027 and beyond
2027 will be a history-making year for rugby league, with the Perth Bears entering the NRL and an additional game added to every full round, taking the schedule to nine matches each weekend – with every single match available on Kayo SPORTS.
The season will launch in Las Vegas, with Kayo League on the ground to bring fans closer to the build-up ahead of the opener at Allegiant Stadium. Kayo SPORTS will deliver every game of every round, including the marquee Magic Round weekend at Suncorp Stadium, featuring every club live and ad-break free during play.
In the AFL, Western Australia and South Australia will renew their historic rivalry in February when they meet in Perth for AFL Origin, live on Kayo Footy. The AFL season then gets underway in March, with Kayo SPORTS and FOXTEL once again the only place to see every game of every round of the AFL Premiership season live and the only place to see any AFL game on a Saturday live nationally for at least the first eight rounds of the season.
To sit alongside the AFL, and Kayo SPORTS and DAZN’s commitment to supporting pathways, in 2027, the AFL’s new Sydney Football League ‘Match of the Round’ will also be available to stream live on Kayo Freebies.
Supporting Kayo SPORTS’ unrivalled live coverage of the AFL and NRL is a star-studded line-up of experts delivering the analysis, opinion and entertainment fans know and love. Hit shows including NRL 360, AFL 360, The Late Show with Matty Johns, Face To Face, Bounce, Midweek Tackle, First Crack and On The Couch will continue to keep fans connected to the stories behind the sport.
As the home of motorsport, Kayo SPORTS will also bring fans the biggest stories from the world of racing through MotorRacing 360, hosted weekly by Jess Yates and News24’s Paul Murray, with Supercars legend Mark Skaife and high-profile guests from around the world.
For U.S. sports fans, Kayo SPORTS’ world-leading ESPN agreement continues to bring the world’s biggest athletes and leagues to Australian screens, including the NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA and NHL. Closer to home, the NBL and WNBL are also available through ESPN on Kayo SPORTS.
Combat sports fans can also continue to enjoy the best from inside the ring and the Octagon on Kayo SPORTS, including No Limit Boxing, Matchroom fights in conjunction with DAZN, and UFC Pay-Per-Views.
Fox Sports Managing Director Steve Crawley said:
“We continue to set the standard for sports broadcasting at Kayo SPORTS and, in 2027, will be raising the bar even higher through an unmatched offering of more than 50 sports, best in class production, and the most experienced and entertaining line up of talent in the industry.”
“Fans turn to us for the best coverage of the sports they love. With the support of DAZN now behind us, Kayo SPORTS is only going to grow and grow and grow into a sports media powerhouse.”
Beyond 2027
As the 2027–28 Summer of Cricket reaches its climax, Kayo SPORTS will turn up the heat with an expanded surfing offering through a new partnership with the Surfing Super League. The groundbreaking Australian-built competition will bring a fast, entertaining format to nine iconic beaches around the country from January 2028, featuring some of the sport’s biggest names and a fresh new way for fans to experience surfing.
The momentum continues into 2028, with the Tasmania Devils set to enter the AFL and Kayo SPORTS’ new NRL agreement commencing, delivering more teams, more games and even more exclusive action for fans.
All coverage is also available to Foxtel subscribers.
Will the full suite of current Kayo sports become available for legacy Foxtel customers?
Otherwise, how will they make clear which Kayo customers can see which sport?
I don’t think there is anything Kayo has that Fox Sports doesn’t, although sometimes due to too many live sports at the same time some things aren’t shown live, although this could be easily fixed with extra intercity only channels.
Kayo does have additional sports not shown on Foxtel
Say what?!!
What a stupid name. Doesn’t roll well off the tongue. Even DAZN sports would have been better
Jonathon Clark Kayo’s been around for nearly 8 years now, so I reckon most people are pretty familiar with it! DAZN is arguably harder to say than Kayo is to remember 😂 – Kyle
Will Foxtel be renamed KayTel?
Jonathon Clark DAZN Sports is a separate streaming service available in Australia.
Kayo is such a silly name
Mick James They were always going to dump the Fox brand eventually. What’s in a name anyway? At least Kayo is a bit more distinctive. – Kyle
TV Blackbox any chance they will drop the foxtel name itself
Mick James it’s a real Knock Out.
I don’t watch the other sports channels but Fox League needs a major shake up and overhaul content presenter’s and commentator’s it’s become borderline unwatchable like NRL 360 being repeated 13 or 14 times in 24 hours is ridiculous especially when it can be streamed if missed if channel 9 cover a game l watch 9 and l pay good money to foxtel
Andrew Fielding Fox League is awful during the week. They need more shows on there even if they are just podcasts. There was a story yesterday had Channel 9 got all the rights along with Stan they were going to have 24 hour NRL channel on free to air & their podcasts were going to be a big part of the line up. Come to think of it Fox Cricket is the same they need some shows during the summer as well.
Aaron Bushby they got big bash NZ summer before they come out here and after our summer
David Scott I know but surely they can ad some extra programing as well as the live cricket.
I would prefer Kaeo Weekes Sports
David Gordon hell yeah! Up The Milk! 💚
David Gordon Melbourne based Raidette.
Don’t have it so won’t bother me 😂
All good as long as the stupid QR starts working and games dont drop out
Kayo would be a lot better if they had at least 1 SKY racing channel
What a waste of a rebrand. There are often more live sports than channels available and with the amount of internet connectivity these days they could have used this opportunity to add a range of new channels, delivered via internet to make sure no sport was ever missed or provide multiple options for the same program (which is already available for Kayo subscribers), show longer form replays and to show their back catalogue of sports and programs at other times.
They could have also used the rebrand to create 24/7 Golf and motorsports channel given they practically have one already (probably move Golf to 507 as they use 503 for overflow AFL games).
I also hope they are giving all Foxtel Sport customers free access to the Kayo app as part of this rebrand. Imagine buying access to Kayo Sports and not being able to access Kayo?
New look / feel = new price increase coming soon
The new look happened when Kayo and Binge apps remodelled to the DAZN app
Richard Paynter not if you get IPTV
Should of called it , i paid to much sports
So is it going to be available on foxtel or just the Kayo app? Fox footy on 504 is iconic and easy to access. If it leaves that channel for just the kayo app I’m leaving Foxtel and my iq5.
Peter Burton all the Fox Sports channel will remain they are just having a name change to Kayo that’s all.
Peter Burton yes.
Was always in the pipeline Kayo Footy just feels bleak in pronunciation
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they have to secure the ICC tournaments going forward. I’m sick of having to watch World Cup etc on Disney or Prime. If they can’t secure these, what’s the point??
Yes. Watching how poorly Prime make the highlights makes you appreciate the efforts Foxtel go to making the highlights flow smoothly.
I am a Foxtel subscriber. In plain language will I need to do anything such as join Kayo or will my current Foxtel subscription cover Kayo Sport.
We dont have FOX SPORTS
WHY – Kayo is essentially the streaming service that takes ALL channels that appear on the Satellite Network
KAYO is the same as what 9Now is to Nine and 7plus is to Seven 10plus to Ten
Glenn Londey Tenplay
OK – Ten play – I think was originally 10 plus and 7plus was created
Actually, they dropped the ‘play’ a while ago. Its just 10 now.
Wish they would bring back Bein Sports as linear channels to make a truly great sports expereince
Can we spend some money on the kayo app. It rates 1.3 for a reason. I have to delete and reinstate it every 2 or 3 days for it to work on my Google tele. They have put the price up twice now without consultation and trying to get helpdesk support from Hubbl is hopeless. No problem them taking over but at least give us punters a decent product first!
Changed from fox spirts to fox league/footy why change again except to charge more for it.
They’ve done it for the same reason they’ve rebranded the news channels. Since DAZN took over from Murdoch- they’ve had to pay a licence fee to use the “Sky” and “Fox” brands – by renaming they don’t have to spend that money.
The “Foxtel” name itself (which probably comes from when it was owned by News and Telstra) will probably change as well in the not too distant future!
Nik Stace for Fox yes, but not Sky. Murdoch still owns News24, that channel wasn’t part of the sale. And they were paying a license fee to use Sky, as Sky News UK is owned by Comcast. But Comcast refused to renew the licensing deal, as they were horrified people associated the content on the Australian channel with them.
Rebranding it means a price rise coming up. You watch…
Tony Ioviero just get IPTV way cheaper
Doesn’t bother me as long as I can still watch it on a foxtel box
Dumb question but will the channels still be available on Foxtel?
Jack Jesus yes
Hope they get rid of Voss as commentator on fox league he’s absolute pain to listen to try’s to be ref,bunker and every if the game doesn’t go his way will replay incident over and over again to get in the ref and bunkers head absolute flog.
So, as a fifo worker in Western Australia, I will no longer have access to sports coverage when on site. At present Kayo is unavailable in certain remote postcodes and Foxtel is. Will Kayo be addressing this current arrangement?
Hi Dave – Kayo Sports isn’t replacing Fox Sports…it’s simply a rebranding exercise (at this stage).