With the soccer action about to get underway at Paris 2024, this guide explains how to watch a women's Olympic football live stream wherever you are – including details of how you can use a VPN to tune into the tournament if you're away from home.
Olympics women's football live streams: key info
• Dates: Thursday, July 25 - Saturday, August 10, 2024
• FREE Streams: BBC iPlayer (UK), 9Now (Australia), CBC Gem (Canada)
• Watch from anywhere: try NordVPN 100% risk free
In the UK, Olympics coverage is available free-to-air on BBC iPlayer, or via the Eurosport/Discovery Plus subscription service. There are also comprehensive free options in Australia (9Now) and Canada (CBC Gem), while viewers in the US can tune in via NBC's Peacock streaming platform.
Read on to plan your best tactics for viewing the action – and make sure you know how to watch a women's Olympic football live stream, whether you're home or away.
Upcoming Olympics women's football fixtures
(All times BST)
Thursday, July 25
- 4pm: Canada vs New Zealand, Spain vs Japan
- 6pm: Germany vs Australia, Nigeria vs Brazil
- 8pm: France vs Colombia, USA vs Zambia
Sunday, July 28
- 4pm: New Zealand vs Colombia, Brazil vs Japan
- 6pm: Australia vs Zambia, Spain vs Nigeria
- 8pm: France vs Canada, USA vsGermany
Check out FourFourTwo's guides to the 12 teams competing in the tournament, the format of the women's Olympics football competition and the seven Olympics football venues hosting matches across France.
For full fixture information, head to our complete schedule for the Olympics football tournaments.
Watch women's Olympics football in the UK
The BBC has had a long association with the Olympics and that continues for Paris 2024. You'll be able to watch free live streams throughout the Games across the BBC's terrestrial channels, the Red Button and the BBC iPlayer streaming service – though you will need a valid TV Licence to tune in.
Unfortunately, the BBC doesn't have full rights to the Olympics, and is limited to broadcasting two streams at any one time. In other words, if women's Olympics football isn't one of the sports covered, you'll need to go elsewhere.
For the most comprehensive service in the UK you'll need to subscribe to Eurosport and Discovery Plus, who are offering 3,800 hours of live coverage across 55 streams. Between now and 11 August you can take advantage of a special Olympics offer to subscribe to the Discovery Plus Standard plan. This gives you access to all the Olympics action for just £3.99 per month, a massive saving on the usual £6.99. Even better, new customers will be able to take advantage of the discounted price for the rest of the year.
Travelling abroad during the tournament? Fans away from home can still watch their usual women's Olympics football live stream as they would back home. All you need is a quality VPN, such as NordVPN, to watch your usual free stream when overseas. Read on to find out how.
Use a VPN to watch from anywhere
If you’re travelling abroad for some or all of the Olympics, then annoyingly your domestic on-demand services won’t work – the broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!). You'll be blocked from watching it, which is not ideal when you know you'd have access back home.
But help is at hand. All you need to do to navigate those geoblocking restrictions is buy yourself a VPN (Virtual Private Network) – assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, of course.
A VPN creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and won't automatically block the service you've paid for. All the info going between is also entirely encrypted – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there, but NordVPN scores particularly highly for the Olympics:
Free Olympics football live streams
If you don't live in the UK, there are plenty of places you can watch women's Olympics football live streams – including free options in Australia and Canada.
Australia
Channel 9 and the 9Now streaming service have the most comprehensive free-to-air Paris 2024 coverage anywhere in the world. You can watch Olympics live streams from almost every session live and on demand through dedicated channels across the network.
Paid subscription service Stan is also covering the Games ad-free, live and on-demand and in 4K resolution.
You'll have to get up in the early hours to watch the Matildas kick off their tournament against Germany, as kick-off is at 3am AEST on Friday, July 26.
Canada
Free Olympics coverage is available in Canada courtesy of CBC and its CBC Gem streaming service. (There's also an option to watch without ads if you pay $5.99 a month for CBC's Premium service. The first seven days are free and you can cancel at any time.)
You can also watch Olympics live streams via subscription services Sportsnet and TSN.
Canada's tournament gets underway against New Zealand at 11am ET/8am PT on Thursday, July 25.
Watch women's Olympic football in the US
USA
NBCUniversal has the US rights to Paris 2024 in the US. Olympics coverage will be shared between the company's cable channels, and the Peacock streaming service.
The USWNT kick off their tournament against Zambia on Thursday, July 25 at 3pm ET/12pm PT.
You can subscribe to Peacock Premium for $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year. The ad-free Peacock Premium Plus will set you back $13.99 per month or $139.99 per year.
You'll also be able to watch women's Olympics football action on cable channels USA Network and E!.
Sling is a smart TV service that allows people in the US to watch cable channels on their TV, laptop or tablet without actually having to subscribe to an annual cable TV package. USA Network and E! are available on Sling with the Sling Blue package, which costs $40 per month ($20 for the first month).
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