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Sky Sports 5 will screen up to 600 live European games next season including:
> Euro 2016 qualifiers
> UEFA Champions League matches
> La Liga games
> Copa del Rey games
> and Holland's top division Eredivisie
The channel will be available to Sky Sports' customers as part of their package, but in a further twist in Sky's battle with rivals BT Sport it will offer people take the new channel two years' free Sky Broadband Unlimited (which currently costs £7.50 a month).
BT currently offer their sports channels free if you are a BT Broadband customer and had already confirmed that offer will continue next season.
Although the new channel will offer Champions League games next season, from the 2015-16 season they will transfer to BT Sport who outbid Sky and ITV for the rights.
Sky Sports boss Barney Francis said: "Sky Sports 5 takes our unrivalled live football coverage to the next level offering more European football than ever before."
Sky Sports 5 will launch on August 12. Arrangements for other platforms have not been revealed, but Virgin Media have tweeted that the channel will be available to their customers as well.
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