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ESPN has reached a deal with Setanta Sports to cover England’s Football League and Carling Cup tournaments. This deal will allow ESPN to provide live coverage of about 100 English soccer matches on ESPN360.com. ESPN’s broadband sports television network will deliver two Football League matches a week, which will total to about more than 80 matches this season.

The Football League, also known as the Coca-Cola Football League consists of League One, League Two and the Carling Cup, an annual tournament that matches Football League and Barclays Premier League teams.

Following are the world’s top International soccer competitions to be broadcast on ESPN360.com.

Australian A League

Chinese Super League

CONCACAF

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

FIFA Futsal World Cup

FIFA U-20 World Cup

FIFA Women’s World Cup

FIFA World Cup

Italian Cup (Coppa Italia)

J League (Japan)

MLS

Portuguese Liga Sagres

Russian Premier League

Serie A

U-17 Championships

UEFA Champions League

UEFA Cup

UEFA Euro

UEFA U-19 Championships

USA National Team

World Cup qualifiers

Damon Phillips, vice president, ESPN360.com said ““We have established ESPN360.com as one of the leading destinations for U.S. fans of global soccer. Adding matches from the Football League and Carling Cup to our lineup further adds to that leadership, these competitions feature some of the highest-level clubs and players in the world, which have an enormous, passionate base of fans around the globe and in the US.”

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