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7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis. [1] Weekly highlights of the NFL are shown each Sunday teatime. Prior to this, American football was occasionally shown on ITV's World of Sport. 1983
September – American Football returns to Channel 4 after more than a decade when the channel starts broadcasting the Sunday Night Football match. 14 September – ESPN UK starts broadcasting live coverage of all of the National Football League's Monday night matches as well as the 90-minute pre-game programme, Monday Night Countdown. [13] 2011
25 January – Channel 4's coverage of American Football ends when it shows Super Bowl XXXII. This ends a relationship with the sport that had existed since its first week on the air. 28 February – Channel 4 shows live coverage of the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations Final. This is the first time that the tournament has been shown in the UK. 1999
The sport of American football is played in the United Kingdom in domestic and international levels. Domestic games in England. Scotland and Wales are operated by British American Football Association who run the BAFA National Leagues for Adult Contact football and British Universities American Football League for the University contact game.
T. Timeline of tennis on UK television; They think it's all over; Timeline of American sport on UK television; Timeline of athletics on UK television
American football was introduced to the United Kingdom during the early part of the 20th century by American servicemen stationed in the country. The first recorded match took place on 23 November 1910 at Crystal Palace, London , where a team made up of the crew from USS Idaho defeated their counterparts from USS Vermont 19–0.
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
7 November – Coverage of American football is shown for the first time on Channel 4, beginning the channel's long association with the sport. [9] 8 November – Channel 4 shows live sport for the first time when it broadcasts coverage of a match from Division One of the National Basketball League.