Champions League extended highlights availability

[gomezz]

Only noticed this yesterday evening but the extended highlights for Champions League matches are now only made available on HBO Max for about 24 hours after the end of the match.  Am I right in thinking this is a new restriction for this season?

Fortunately for me I had already watched the Liverpool and Arsenal games at tea time but a heads up for the future to not delay or to record them when broadcast on TNT Sports overnight.  I assume this will also apply to Europa Cup ans Conference Leagues matches.

(my modus operandi is to watch the extended highlights for the British team matches and short highights for the rest for the group stages until and unless there are critical quali matches in the final round)

[zulu17]

The rights for this season should be the same as last season as it was a 3 season deal that they secured that commenced with the 2024/5 , continued with 2025/26 and concludes with 2026/27,

[BhfpkiiL1]

British team matches ???

Pretty certain only English teams and Liverpool ( if you know your history)

are in the UCL

As for the rest well critical qualifying matches is simply not going to happen as they're usually out way before then.

[zulu17]

Probably  an issue with HBO Max as far as I can see .

The (extended highlight) programmes appear to disappear or get removed from the HBO Max pages with no warrning.

Those that were part watched again simply disappear from continue watching.

Could/should/must do better,

[gomezz]

If it were a rights issue then I would also expect the full replays to disappear too but they are still all there.

I can believe that this has always happened and I have just not noticed it before as up to this season I watched the extended highlights on EETV rather than on HBO Max.
And when I said British teams I meant all teams from the UK and a pattern of watching over many seasons. That those teams qualified this year are all from England is neither here nor there (do not even know what the dig at Liverpool is about)

[zulu17]

The response i got when i enquired was

I have checked the details regarding your question about the UEFA Champions League coverage.

We do have full match replays and standard highlight clips available on the platform, and these remain accessible for a long period of time so you can catch up at your convenience. However, the specific 30-minute extended highlights are not available at this moment.

[gomezz]

So telling us what we can already see for ourselves. 😕

Europa games on tonight so will see how the XHL coverage goes tomorrow.

[zulu17]

@gomezz  at this moment in time = HBO Max has for the Europa League - two  matches played 16Sept26  with extended Highlights   AC Milan v Benfica and  Sunderland v AZ Alkmar - these are the catchup of the programs first broadcast on TNT Sports 3 linear channel  (17Sept26) .

HBO Max also has UEFA Europa League  Extended Highlights going back as far as matchweek 1   in September 2025 and for what seems the whole of last season.

Extended highlights for the UEFA Conference League matches for last season (Oct 2025 thru May 2026) are also currently listed on HBO max.

As for the UEFA Champions League - as you mentioned and I also noticed   the extended highlighte  available for selected games last week were loaded and available on HBO Max but appear to be removed /taken down after a very short time.. So we know that TNT Sports produced the programmes as they were broadcast on the linear channel  and were watchable on HBO max catchup  for approximately one day.

[gomezz]

Missing any sort of highlights for the other two Europa League matches from last night.

[gomezz]

Today's highlights programme covered all the Thursday games. Highlights of the Wednesday games still AWOL.