PREMIER SPORTS will be showing the Riga v Celtic Europa League qualifier on Thursday evening within Great Britain and Ireland. And subscribers to Celtic TV living outside GB and Ireland will be able to watch the match live on the club’s own channel. The Third Qualifying Round match kicks-off at 6pm and Premier Sports coverage starts just 5 minutes before the action gets underway.
The tie will be decided on the night in Latvia and the winners will progress to the Play-off round with either Sarajevoย or Buduฤnost Podgorica to battle for a place in the Europa League Group stages.
Here is the social media message from Premier Sports confirming that they will broadcast the match.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ฎ v ๐๐ฒ๐น๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐
๐บ Watch Celtic’s ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ด๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ค๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฅ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ clash vs Riga ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ this Thursday from 5.55pm!
๐ To watch live, visit: https://t.co/fQZZJU4YgI pic.twitter.com/t9hmOpoO2S
โ Premier Sports ๐บ (@PremierSportsTV) September 21, 2020
Celtic TV also confirmed this morning that they will be showing the vital European qualifier to customers outside GB and Ireland.
๐บ Next up on CTV for subscribers outside the UK/Ireland #UEL pic.twitter.com/wq8Lc34NKU
โ Celtic TV (@CelticTV) September 21, 2020
We pointed out to Celtic TV that this match offered Celtic a tremendous opportunity to provide the club’s 50,000 plus season ticket holders with some of that ‘additional value’ that was promised.
“This could have been an ideal ‘additional value’ opportunity for the club to give something back (as promised) to season ticket holders,” we pointed out.
“I think they are hoping we forget about the โadditional valueโ” @Tetley1988 observed.
“Celtic TV only has the rights to show the game outside the UK/Ireland,” Celtic TV stated, rather obviously.
Celtic TV only has the rights to show the game outside the UK/Ireland.
โ Celtic TV (@CelticTV) September 21, 2020
Here’s a reminder on Celtic’s opponents on Thursday night…
