Fox Soccer

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.

This article is about the former soccer television channel in the United States. For its ongoing sister channel, see Fox Soccer Plus. For Fox Football Channel, the defunct soccer channel in Southeast Asia, see Fox Sports (Southeast Asian TV network) § Former channels. For the Aussie rules channels in Australia, see Fox Footy and Fox Footy Channel.
Fox Soccer
HeadquartersHouston, Texas
Ownership
Owner21st Century Fox (Fox Networks Group)
Sister channelsFox Soccer Plus
History
LaunchedNovember 1, 1997 (1997-11-01)
ClosedSeptember 2, 2013 (2013-09-02)
Replaced byFXX
Fox Soccer Plus (namesake)
Former namesFox Sports World (1997–2005)
Fox Soccer Channel (2005–11)

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, Fox Soccer was replaced on September 2, 2013, by FXX, an entertainment sister network to FX. 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. Fox Soccer Plus, a spin-off channel which launched in 2010, continues to operate.

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