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Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
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Ownership | |
Owner | 21st Century Fox (Fox Networks Group) |
Sister channels | Fox Soccer Plus |
History | |
Launched | November 1, 1997 |
Closed | September 2, 2013 |
Replaced by | FXX Fox Soccer Plus (namesake) |
Former names | Fox Sports World (1997–2005) Fox Soccer Channel (2005–11) |
Fox Soccer (formerly Fox Soccer Channel & Fox Sports World before that) was an American television specialty channel specializing in soccer, owned by 21st Century Fox, which operated from 1997 to 2013. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but in its final years it was devoted strictly to soccer.
Due to Fox consolidating its cable sports rights on the new general-interest channels Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, and following the loss of United States television rights to broadcast Premier League soccer events to NBC,[1] Fox Soccer was replaced on September 2, 2013, by FXX, an entertainment sister network to FX.[2] The vast majority of the remaining sports programming from Fox Soccer has been moved to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, which launched on August 17, 2013.[3] Fox Soccer Plus, a spin-off channel which launched in 2010, continues to operate.[4]