DAZN: Features, price, and live sports to watch
One of the newer names on the sports broadcasting circuit in Australia is DAZN. Pronounced: Dah-Zone, this streaming service is collecting a wealth of sports rights that should appeal to multiple audiences, including some exceptional boxing events, MMA, wrestling, women’s soccer and extreme sports. The subscription fee is an amicable $13.99 per month, however, some bigger fight cards require an additional PPV fee.
What is DAZN?
DAZN is a web-based sport streaming service available almost worldwide availability. Here in Australia, they’ve procured several international sports rights which can intrigue and entertain including women’s soccer, various MMA promotions, boxing, wrestling, extreme sports and lots of e-sports to keep you more than glued to their screens.
How much does DAZN Sports cost?
This is one of the more straightforward pricing strategies within the industry. DAZN will cost you $13.99 per month for their content and that entitles you to watch all their standard programming on as many devices as you like (only two concurrently). There’s no lock-in policy so you can come and go as you please.
The only non-standard content is their PPV events which are typically big boxing events. These are priced individually and differently per fight.
Does DAZN have a free trial?
At present, there is no free trial opportunity for the DAZN product. It is still however very moderately priced compared to a lot of other alternatives.
What sports are on DAZN?
DAZN’s offering is indeed wide and long. The platform might have previously focused on boxing exclusively but that is no longer true with the portfolio rapidly expanding.
DAZN Australia features and benefits
During the playback of multiple events, you can tailor your viewing experience to just how you like it. Boxing events allow you to pick the fight and round you want to watch, while football games allow you to watch from key moments like goals, and red cards, or of course you can watch the game in full.
Most events come with the opportunity to watch the full event back for 7 days after the initial broadcast with others having highlights for 30 days after. The original content and a lot of the boxing content are archived and kept on the platform for much longer.
NFL Game Pass Australia on DAZN
Good news for NFL fans! You can watch every match through the NFL Game Pass in Australia via DAZN. Starting August 3, football fans can stream the preseason games and the regular season starting September 7. On top of that, there are Super Bowl LVIII, plus NFL RedZone, NFL Network, NFL Originals, and DAZN programming and documentaries on NFL. Australians will be able to enjoy these games and sports shows for a weekly cost of of $28.99. Meanwhile, four installments for a season are for $70 and a full season for $279.99.
Big Fights. Any device. One price.
Enjoy ground-breaking live and on demand sports on the streaming service DAZN for just $13.99/month!
Which devices can I stream DAZN on?
The question should really be, what device can’t I stream DAZN on – with most devices being operational with their app. It is fully functional on popular cell phones like iPhones and Android devices, tablets, firesticks, and Smart TVs. Be sure to check out the list below to ensure your device works with it.
Devices supported on DAZN
- Amazon Fire TV: Yes; 1st Generation and newer
- Amazon Fire Tablet: Yes; 4th Generation and newer
- Amazon Fire TV Stick: Yes
- Android TV: Yes
- Apple TV: Yes; 4th Generation, 2015 or newer
- Google Chromecast: Yes
- Xbox: Yes; Xbox One, Xbox One S, Xbox One X
- Playstation: Yes; Playstation ® 4, Playstation ® 4 Pro
- Android Phone & Tablet: Yes; Android OS 5.0 and above
- iPhone & iPad: Yes; iOS 10.0+
- Samsung Smart TV: Yes; 2015-2019 models
- Panasonic Smart TV: Yes
- LG Smart TV: Yes; 2015-2019 models
- Roku TV / Player / Stick: Yes
- Vizio TV: Yes; P Series Quantum; P, E, M & D-Series
- Xfinity X1 Top Set Box: Yes
What are the alternatives to DAZN?
Optus Sport
If it’s football you’re after then Optus Sport might be your calling. This platform carries the biggest and most followed football league on the planet, the Premier League. It also shows La Liga, the J.League, and the Women’s Super League. If that wasn’t enough there are also selected games from the German Cup competition, key games from the UEFA Nations League, and other specific international friendlies.
Stan
STAN is better known for its movie and TV offerings as a general entertainment service. The company has however invested in its sports offerings. Their dedicated sports pack now offers multiple tennis grand slams, some key motorsport races, and of course the UEFA Champions League.
What people are asking about DAZN
While we’re used to seeing sports networks owned by familiar names, DAZN is its own company, based in the UK and headed by a former CEO of the massive US sports network ESPN.
There is only one subscription plan for DAZN in Australia – $13.99 per month for access to the full service.
At launch, DAZN will have coverage of international championship boxing from Europe and the USA, featuring live streamed coverage of major fights. It’s very possible that the service will expand to cover other sports later, but nothing has been announced as yet.
There are DAZN apps available for the Playstation4, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X game consoles, and now a Playstation 5 app is available as well, for the lucky few who can actually find a PS5 in the stores!
With the standard subscription, DAZN allows you to use the service on as many supported devices as you like – but only two streaming at the same time. That’s similar to Kayo’s “Basic” plan, and should be more than adequate for most people’s needs.
As a streaming-only service, DAZN doesn’t support recording fights to watch later – but there’s no need to, with full replays available after the live stream has finished, so you can still watch the action if the live stream time doesn’t suit you.
No, not at launch at least. Fetch TV is a unique platform in that they develop apps for their devices themselves, in collaboration with streaming services. DAZN and Fetch would need to work together on an app for that platform; given DAZN’s extensive app support that would seem like a possibility, but nothing official has been announced.
One device missing from the DAZN device list at launch is Telstra TV; however, the Roku devices that Telstra TV is based on already have a DAZN app overseas, and its delay in arriving on Telstra TV is probably more to do with Telstra wanting to verify the app before they add it to the device’s app store.
No – unlike other sports streaming and broadcasting services, there’s no premium pay-per-view content on DAZN at all. Everything that’s on offer including all live fight streams is included in the $13.99 monthly subscription.
Like all streaming services, you can simply sign up using a major credit card, but DAZN also supports payment via Apple’s iTunes store (via the iOS or Apple TV app), Google Play and even PayPal (with Australia being one of only a handful of countries that PayPal can be used for DAZN subscriptions).