Watching lacrosse: who shows what, as the leagues and bodies announced it.

Status on 23 October 2026

Each line below is tied to a dated announcement. Several arrangements were made for one season or one event and may already have changed: the NLL's announced Canadian television deal ran through the 2025-26 season, and we found no announcement for 2026-27. For the events and leagues themselves, see World Championships, NCAA championships and professional leagues.

World Lacrosse championships

World Lacrosse streams its championships on its own platform, WL TV.

• 2026 Women's World Championship, Tokyo: World Lacrosse said on 23 July 2026 that WL TV would carry the whole championship internationally, and that in Japan the home team's matches would also be shown on BS Asahi and ABEMA.
• 2024 Women's U20 Championship, Hong Kong: every game streamed on WL TV, a first, according to World Lacrosse (24 August 2024).
• 2024 Box Championships, Utica: World Lacrosse said ESPN aired 26 games, the first box championship that network had carried.
• 2022 Women's World Championship, Towson: ESPN carried almost 200 hours, and World Lacrosse called it the first women's championship with linear television distribution in the United States (9 July 2022).
• 2022 Men's U21 Championship, Limerick: World Lacrosse said every game was televised, a first for a junior event.
• The World Games 2025, Chengdu: every lacrosse match streamed on WL TV and on The World Games' own platform (World Lacrosse, 4 August 2025).

Los Angeles 2028. We found no lacrosse-specific statement of who will broadcast the Olympic tournament. For the tournament itself, see lacrosse at the Olympics.

NCAA championships

ESPN's press room set out its 2026 championship plan on 8 May 2026:

An ESPN press room headline from January 2026 said it would show more than 300 men's college games in the 2026 regular season, 31 January to 3 May; we saw only the headline. We found no announcement for 2027.

Premier Lacrosse League and Women's Lacrosse League

• 25 June 2025: the PLL announced a five-year agreement with ESPN starting with the 2026 season. It covers all PLL regular-season, All-Star, playoff and championship games, the Women's Lacrosse League's games, and future PLL and WLL drafts. Every game streams on ESPN+, with selected games on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2.
• 16 September 2026: ESPN's press room said the 2026 PLL Championship on 20 September would be shown only on ABC, and streamed on the ESPN App.

National Lacrosse League

• 15 July 2025: the NLL said TSN had extended its partnership through the 2025-26 season, with exclusive linear rights in Canada to regular-season games, including NLL Friday Night on TSN, plus playoff and Finals coverage and extra games on TSN+. The partnership was first announced in 2021.
• 12 May 2026: the NLL said all 2026 Finals games would air on TSN, TSN+, ESPN+ and NLL+, with NLL+ available outside North America.
• 2026-27: no broadcast announcement found by 23 October 2026. The season opens on 28 November 2026.

Canadian box championships

We found no broadcaster statement for the 2026 Mann Cup or Minto Cup. Their results are on box lacrosse trophies.