Consultation: Listed Events - FA Cup Final

Ofcom has received a request from the BBC and ITV (on its own behalf and on behalf of STV) for consent to broadcast live coverage of the FA Cup Final in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (“the FA Cup Finals”). The FA Cup Finals would be broadcast simultaneously on BBC One, ITV and STV.

The FA Cup Final is a listed event for the purposes of the Broadcasting Act 1996 (“the Act”). The Act’s rules on listed events aim to secure that certain events of national interest are available to view live, and for free, by the widest possible audience.  
In accordance with section 101 of the Act, Ofcom’s consent is needed for the BBC and ITV’s proposed live coverage of the FA Cup Finals. The FA Cup Finals are “Group A” listed events and the process by which consent for coverage of such events is decided is set out in the Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events.

Ofcom is provisionally minded to grant consent to the BBC and ITV for the FA Cup Finals, subject to any comments received from interested parties in response to this consultation.

Responding to this consultation

Please submit responses using the consultation response form (ODT, 48.6 KB).