After Przemysław Frankowski turned Lens to Galatasaray, 13 Poles will run after the fields in Turkey. As many as 10 of them play in the highest class Super League. There are only Polish players in the European elite only in Italy. Only that on the Polish sports television market offers with the Turkish Premier League in vain.
Türkiye not for Germany and Poland
Currently, Sebastian Szymański (Fenerbahce), Przemysław Frankowski (Galatasaray), Krzysztof Piątek (Basaksehir), Kacper Kozłowski (Gaziantep), Kamil Piątkowski (Kasimpasa), Jakub Kałuziński (Antalyspor), but also Mateusz Lis (Goztepe (Goztepe (Goztepe (Goztepe (Goztepe (Goztepe (Goztepe ), Michał Rachoczy (Ankaragucu), Patryk Szysz (Basaksehir), Jakub Słowik (Konyaspor) and Jan Biegański (Sivaspor). Because most of them are the basic players of their teams, and Friday is on the right track to the title of the top scorer, it is getting more and more interesting on Turkish fields.
However, the Polish supporter of Turkish football has not been watching for years. For a long time, with small breaks, we can watch the Dutch, Portuguese, Greek, but also Slovenian league, or Saudi Arabia games. The Turkish league against the background of the latter from the Polish perspective seems much more interesting.
Televisions were interested in this product years ago, when the Brożków brothers, Michał Żewłakow and Arkadiusz Głowacki ran after Turkish fields. Then Polsat Sport and Orange Sport probed the possibilities of transmission of the Turkish league. The topic quickly collapsed, because the Turks generally do not want to share with television from Europe.
They preferred to expand the digiturk customer base, i.e. a platform that has been showing games for several decades so that Turkish fans scattered all over Europe bought their satellite sets. It was also related to the fears that in other countries access to national television showing the Turkish league could be cheaper than the subscription of the Turkish broadcaster, and in the case of crushing rights to other markets it would be more difficult to fight piracy.
It was especially about the German market, where the Turkish minority has about 3 million people. Similar activities were also used in other European markets with minimal exceptions. The situation changed more only in 2015, when Digiturk was taken over by the Bein Media Group and its channels were renamed to Bein. The new entity still won subsequent tenders for rights, paying a record $ 500 million. It was almost a decade ago that made the Turkish league best paid by television just behind the Big Five: Premier League, Primera Division, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. The Turkish contract as a result of subsequent renegotiation was reduced, but there are still giant clubs thanks to him money.
They offended the owner of rights, he was supposed to interfere with the winnings
Interestingly, the contract was renegotiated, among others, by … piracy that intensified with the development of the Internet. Digiturk estimated that his sports channels were watching twice as many pirate subscribers than those who honestly pay an official subscription. In addition, during a tender from a few years ago, the league's long -term partner was outraged by the action, which Fenerbahce imposed on him.
The president of this club and fans conducted the anti-bein campaign, claiming that the broadcaster manipulated … VAR decisions, because he chose such repetitions from cameras to show the disputed situations in the adverse light for Fenerbahce. At some point, the club even converted the Bein logo so that on the advertising bands at the pitch and on team costumes there was the inscription “Befair”. This only shows what specific football country is Türkiye. There, there are also accused of conducive to conducive to specific teams, judges or federation, and players after unfavorable decisions can go to the locker room, the presidents run to the pitch and do justice to the arbitrators themselves. Those who lose often look for the reasons for these failures in conspiracies and external forces.
Returning to the television market, Digiturk (satellite and streaming platform is constantly broadcasting under this name) for several years he has been buying all the rights to the Turkish league also with the international package. As a result, he has the right to show Super League matches outside Turkey's territory. He uses this in such a way that he presents the league in countries where Beinsport is available (even the USA or Australia). In Europe it is only France. However, also for several years the right to the league has been sold to several other television. In 2025, the league is mainly shown by the Balkan countries (including Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo), but also the Netherlands and Portugal. Usually, however, these are a match or two matches in the queue. Digiturk still encourages supporters throughout Europe to buy decoders (satellite or internet) with the option of watching the Turkish league and proposes to ship receivers abroad. The simplest option to become a subscriber of the platform is, of course, buying online access. In recent years, it has been announced that the league is to be widely available all over the world and gain prestige, but when it comes to Europe, it is difficult to see this media offensive in practice.
Cup in Polsat? “Flexibly”
According to our information, recently the rights to the Turkish league have been still not offered to Polish broadcasters, although they are interested in them. Anyway, Polsat from time to time buys the rights to the Turkey Cup sold separately. He had them more than a decade ago, he had a few years ago, but only in the case of the final phase of the competition. He refreshed them recently this season, but also once. Everything seems to indicate that the rights to the whole cup season of Polsat are not there and that this season he will buy selected matches in given rounds.
– Our many years of relationships with the intermediary partners in buying a license for broadcasts, allow us to flexibly choose “ad-hoc” a specific number of football matches during the year, from various world markets, depending on the attractiveness of these matches from the point of view of the Polish viewer. This is the case with the Turkish Cup matches, which we broadcast – told us Tomasz Ołdak, dealing with the theme channels of Telewizja Polsat. In the nearest cup queue at the end of February at the sports antennas of Polsat stations for now there are no broadcasts from Turkey. This can of course change.
For now, when it comes to the Turkish offer, you have to wait for Polsat's cup movements and settle for the availability of the transmission of several meetings from the league queue with some bookmakers.