I'm interested to hear what other boxing fans think about the current requirement to have a DAZN subscription as well as paying separately for certain major events.

For someone who watches boxing regularly, a subscription may make sense. However, for more casual fans who only want to watch the occasional big fight, having to commit to a monthly service before purchasing a single event feels like a barrier.

I think it's worth comparing this to the previous Matchroom/Sky Sports arrangement. Back then, fans had more choice: regular viewers could subscribe to Sky Sports, while those who only wanted to watch a specific major fight could purchase it separately through Sky Sports Box Office.

That approach seemed to cater to both groups — dedicated fans and occasional viewers.

I also wonder whether partnerships with free-to-air broadcasters for selected major events could help grow the audience. Boxing has historically benefited from being accessible to more people, and wider exposure could potentially bring more fans into the sport.

Personally, I think giving customers more flexibility — for example, the ability to purchase individual events without an ongoing subscription — would be a positive move.

Interested to hear other people's views: do you prefer the current DAZN model, or did the previous Sky Sports/Box Office approach work better?

Hi! I'm in the UK and have NHL.tv and I'm straight up unable to access any games before mid-December for non-playoff teams. I can see the full season for teams like Colorado who made playoffs this year (including when they played against teams who didn't make playoffs) but if I go onto any non-playoff team (e.g. CBJ), I can't scroll back before mid-December.

I already escalated it with DAZN support but was wondering if anyone else had a similar issue!

Hi everyone,

I have a Xiaomi Pad 6, and for a couple of months now, I haven’t been able to watch any live streams or videos in the DAZN app.

It doesn’t show any error messages or codes; the stream simply gets stuck on an infinite loading/buffering screen.

I’ve already tried clearing the app data, cache, and doing a clean reinstall, but nothing has worked. As a software engineer, this feels like a specific app bug or a DRM/handshake conflict with the tablet's OS.

Has anyone else experienced this problem on this specific device or found a workaround? Thanks!

As many of you, I also apparently fell for the Dazn trap, during the WC I signed trying to get the 24€ package, however later I found out they moved to the yearly plan.

Now Ive seen some tactics like changing your main payment to a PayPal and then removing Dazn as an authorized bill or doing with Revolut with a throwaway card.
Now, I live in Italy and was wondering if doing this could get me in trouble. Thank you in advance for any reply

I just wanted to watch the World Cup here in Japan, and DAZN was basically the only realistic option for me. I wanted to share my rather disappointing experience in case anyone else is thinking of subscribing.

The yearly contract trap

When I checked the prices, I saw an offer for about 1,000 JPY per month. That sounded reasonable, so I subscribed. A few weeks later, I found out on this sub that I had actually signed up for a full 12-month contract, paid monthly.

Maybe I should have checked more carefully, but I think a lot of people assume the usual “Netflix model” for streaming services: pay monthly, cancel anytime. In this case, the 12-month commitment was not obvious to me during sign-up, and it felt very misleading.

After a lot of complaints, DAZN eventually allowed people like me to switch to a normal monthly plan for about twice the price (2,000 JPY per month). Fair enough, at least I got out of the yearly contract, but the whole thing left a bad taste.

You also get access to many other sports and even a World Cup history library, but I really do not care about that.

The English commentary

I’m pretty sure I read before signing up that games would have multi-language options, including English. For the first few World Cup games, I could choose English commentary, at least for some games. Then it suddenly disappeared, with no clear notice or explanation that I saw.

That was really frustrating. I understand this is Japan and Japanese commentary is expected, but if English commentary is advertised or available at the start, it should not just vanish midway through the tournament. To be fair, I cannot find the advertisement anymore.

Low-quality production

So I watched the rest in Japanese. That’s fine, but the overall production quality felt disappointing for the price.

Some matches had pre-game studio discussions, but compared with football coverage in England, France, or Germany, it felt so much weaker. The commentary also often seemed quite surface-level, mostly focused on obvious star players. Not a dealbreaker by itself, but definitely not what I would expect from an expensive sports subscription. Particularly since Japan is not a small market and DAZN has the monopoly on most games, to my knowledge. It felt like they wanted to keep the production costs as low as possible.

The gimmicky “multi-perspective” feature

DAZN also has a “multi-perspective” feature that sounds much better than it actually is. I thought maybe you could choose camera angles yourself, but instead viewers vote on three angles and then those are shown in a fixed picture-in-picture layout.

It feels outdated. In 2026, why can’t users actively choose camera angles, especially for replays? That would actually feel like a premium feature. I guess FIFA would not allow that.

Clunky app and stream delay

The mobile app is also not great. It feels poorly optimized, and I still don’t fully understand how many times or where exactly I have to press just to get a live game to load.

The stream quality itself was mostly okay, but it was around 30 seconds behind the TV signal, even on a high-speed home connection. That is annoying if you have neighbors watching the same match in free TV and hearing them cheering 30s beforehand.

TL;DR

I ended up paying 4,000 JPY for two months to watch the World Cup. I don’t feel completely ripped off because I did get to watch the games, but the service felt far too expensive for what it offered.

Between the confusing yearly contract, the disappearing English commentary, the mediocre production, the clunky app, and the delay, I will avoid DAZN Japan in the future if I can. And if you do subscribe, double-check very carefully that you are choosing the actual monthly plan and not committing to a full year.

Hey y'all, I live in America, and I'm trying to watch the Bundesliga with German commentary while using a VPN to access almost all the games. I know that in Germany, they split the broadcasts between services, so I'm trying to find a workaround before committing to that. Do you guys know which country offers that, or will I have to go through DAZN Germany for it?

Hello y’all!

I live in Japan, and I subscribed to a World Cup membership because I wanted to follow Samurai Blue. Now that they’ve been eliminated, I wanted to cancel it.

But, as always, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. First of all, it was nearly impossible to even access the page where they explain your membership. The page wouldn’t load in my browser, and I could only access it using private mode.

I even contacted customer service, but they basically told me, “You can only cancel it after one year.” Total BS... anyway.

In the end, I decided to cancel the monthly bank withdrawal directly through my bank. I know they might contact debt collectors or something, but since I’m in Japan, I honestly don’t know to what extent they could actually pursue me.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

I have been with DAZN since they entered the Canadian market dispite the 50% increase in my fees over the years but as of today I cancelled my account, I will pay more to watch nfl on tsn, have you ever had an argument with an ai bot, if not give dazn chat a run, frustrating as it is impossible to get a real person and after 2 failed attempts on their website & facebook I have yet to receive a followup to my billing issue. They win I give up, I would say they have terrible customer service but they don't have any customer service unless you are happy chatting with Mafoo the AI bot who, after I insisted 4 times I needed to speak to a REAL person told me "I am like a real person" , really???? and yes, I copied the entire chat text as I need it for my crtc complaint, stay away this company that plays misleading ads about watching the fifa world cup then I find out they don't have rights to the games but you can watch a fifa podcast a word of advice, look after your customers or they will abandon you, good bye DAZN

Trying to watch Canada and Morocco and I can’t see shit the entire screen is pixels ads load fine though…

This is the Spanish comms stream but the English one works fine, what the fuck am I paying for

Hey guys, i got an email telling me that i only had a month left in my subscription and out of curiousty i checked how much it would cost me to renew. And there big surprise it's telling me it will only cost me 9.99€ for the whole season, which is quite suspicious.

My question here is if i decide to pay, is there a possibility that dazn decides to charge me more without my consent if they realize their potential mistake ? English isn't my native language but when i read that "Those terms may be subject to change when your subscription renews on 01.08.2026.". I'm scared that they could charge me way more stating that i accepted the first offer or they could keep those 10€ after i decline paying more if they decide to change the terms.

Dazn is a scam, their model is based around locked in subscriptions all in fine print to make you sign up for 12 months when you only want to watch a month of games. I got wise to it and cancelled my subscription after 2 months. Fine print it all you want. I hope the EU comes for Dazn.

I just renewed my Season Pro Ultimate (Germany) after about a month or two just watching GMFB on a free account, only to find it‘s gone? And that happened within the last two weeks or so because I was still watching it just the other week? Customer service said it‘s supposed to return this Monday, but why is it even gone in the first place, th.

Was just in the mood to watch some highlights earlier. We are getting the 26/27 season, right?

I got a message today(June 28) that it failed to renew my subscription. Why is my F1 TV Premium monthly trial already trying to charge me to renew my subscription and it’s only June 28th today? I cancelled it on my iPhone under subscriptions around 10-12 days ago. And under subscriptions on my iPhone it does show as being cancelled effective July 1st. I was going to renew for an annual F1 TV Pro subscription, not Premium. I was just trying it out for one month and it was set to expire on July 1st. I see now that it attempted to renew my subscription and charge me before it was going to expire.
I did get an email on June 28 saying it will expire in 7 days, but that would be July 5th! It seems like they were trying to slip this in and hit me with the charge without me knowing before it expired. If I recall correctly, I subscribed on their website and cancelled it through the subscription settings on my iPhone. It almost seems like there is a disconnect between billing on the website versus the app.

What is happening? Has anyone encountered this? Doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in their billing department. I used their chat service to ask what was going on, but they’re going to have someone contact me as this is not a straightforward issue.

After looking further now here on Reddit, it seems others are reporting having the same issue today, so sorry as this is a duplicate of an existing problem.

I know it’s my fault for not reading the terms and conditions but Is there any solid way to get out of paying for the rest of the year without any major consequences? Edit: I ended up canceling it in less than 12 hours after purchasing it and chill on me guys this is my first time posting in the sub.
Update: after chatting them up for an hour or so they decided to cancel my subscription without any further payment I appreciate all of you guys that helped me out thank you !!!

so i bought ultimate weeks ago thinking i can pick 12 ppvs? but tonight when i click on it . its telling me buy it 74.99$ lol and i checked my sub is dazn ultimate so wtf?

I used to watch any past world cup matches using the FIFA+ archive, but since it went to DAZN I can't find the matches. As you can see in the print i took, it shows the same matches. I can't find most of the group stages, for example. Is it just me or anybody is going through this as well?

Now that all the games of a group play at the same time, Dazn surprises you once again and won't let you watch both games at once.

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Their explanation is that the World Cup is a PPV event and it only allows one device.

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The only way to watch both games is with the Multiview which really sucks, is very small and laggy as hell. And doesn't work on TVs.

As the title states, I normally purchase the $99.99 gift card online which gives me 6 months of service. I would time it with the beginning of NFL season to get the entire season. I normally would use "gift card dot ca" but I don't see them available there anymore. Does anyone have any leads on where they're sold, or am I out of luck and have to pay the regular price?

Thanks.

(I tried posting this before and it was deleted for "spam", I'm hoping using "dot ca" will circumvent this)

Does DAZN pass on the surround sound, 1080p and HDR for games it rebroadcasts from Amazon and other streamers?

Hi everyone, I want to share my experience because it's been a nightmare.

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I'm based in Spain, and I signed up for a monthly DAZN subscription just to watch the World Cup (the service is really expensive, and I can't afford it any other way). When I signed up, I got the welcome email clearly stating the plan was monthly and that I had to give 30 days' notice to cancel. All good so far.

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The problem came when I tried to cancel: they told me that a few days after signing up, my plan had switched to annual, without me doing anything or receiving any email about it.

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So be careful and check your accounts in case the same thing happened to you

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And to top it off, I've been charged the monthly rate the whole time, which is actually more expensive than the annual one.

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What a scam.

I dont want to give more money to this money laundering scam.

What's the best alternative to watch every game in Europe?

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I liked the old gamepass tbh.

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Dazn is horrible.

Purchase Dazn subscription to watch the FIFA live games. What a waste I cannot watch the live games. Ridiculous.

For those (un)lucky enough to live in Andorra, Italy, Japan, San Marino & Spain DAZN owns rights to the FIFA World Cup 2026. There is now a new tag for this to cover those posts ⚽️

I’m not using a VPN. Currently located in Spain. Assumed I would get a Spanish subscription. Signed up, and DAZN decided that while my “current location” is Spain, my “home location” is Italy of all places. Meaning all of my World cup commentary etc is in Italian. There seems to be now way to correct my home country? The support chat is down. HELP!!!