Acestream is a P2P application so I would advise you use a VPN, my recommendation is Cyberghost VPN. You can currently get 70% off by purchasing 12 months for $21/€14.99, regular price is $69.99/€49.99
Streaming Software
- Sopcast(Windows, OS X, Ubuntu) – popular p2p desktop streaming software Website
- Acestream(Windows, Mac with workarounds) – Very popular p2p client. Download, guide
- Flash– the old classic, the latest version comes installed with Chrome Website
Official Streaming Sources
Many sites are region locked
- Australia– SBS[5] A League, Australian internationals, World Cup
- Australia– Foxtel Go (requires Foxtel subscription) – iOS, Android. All Premier League games live.
- Canada– TSN and TSN2 soccer broadcast schedule[7] (free with most cable subscriptions)
- Canada– All Sportsnet channels broadcast schedule (All of these channels but SN world and SN one are free)
- Canada– Information on Sportsnet World premium channel which includes online streaming
- Canada– TSN and TSN2 soccer broadcast schedule (free with most cable subscriptions)
- Canada– All Sportsnet channels broadcast schedule (for some reason the soccer specific schedule does not include EPL games. All of these channels but SN world and SN one are free)
- Canada– Information on Sportsnet World premium channel which includes online streaming
- Turkey– Digiturkplay – available to subscribers
- Turkey– LigTV – free official highlights of the games about less than an hour after the full time whistle
- Germany, Australia, Switzerland– laola1 – La Liga and Segunda Liga
- Germany sport1 – audio streams for Bundesliga
- Russia/Global ws – another Russian site with SopCast streams, sometimes it overlaps with LiveFootball, but not always.
- Sweden Viaplay – 249kr/month for TV + Movie + Sport, PL and CL football plus lots of other sports.
- USA– NBC Sports – Web based streams of games
- USA– beIN Sport Play – Legal streaming of La Liga, Serie A, Football League, Ligue 1, Russian Premier League, and more. Needs authentication to use.
- UK– Sky Sports – available to subscribers
- UK– BT Sport – one EPL game a week, other football. available to subscribers.
- UK– ITV – English cup games
- UK– BBC iPlayer – England internationals
- UK– Yahoo – Official Online Premier League Highlights
- UK– TVCatchup – BBC1, ITV, ITV4 live streams plus all other Freeview Channels
- UK– BBC1 , ITV, ITV4 – Official live TV streams
- UK– Sky Sports Day Pass – £9.99 day pass for Sky Sports
- Global– TalkSport – live audio streams of games
Streaming Sites
- PopStream[32] – best rated by redditors
- Reddit soccerstreams – excellent source of streams for almost any game, for flash, Acestream and Sopcast.
- FirstRowSports –FirstRow – UK Link Flash streams
- Vipbox[36] – High quality flash streams
- Nutjob[37] – flash streams
- Popstream[38] – High quality streams
- ws[39] – Russian site with good streams
- RojaDirecta[40] – classic stream site
- ATDHE[41] – another classic site
Download and Highlights Sites
- /r/footballdownload[42] – subreddit dedicated to downloading matches
- Global– 101greatgoals[43] – instant highlites as GIF’s and flash videos
- UK– Yahoo[44] – Official Online Premier League Highlights
- UK– Sun+ Goals (Android)[45] (iOS)[46] – Official Mobile App Premier League Goal Highlights
- UK– BBC Match Of The Day[47] – MOTD (Saturday) & MOTD2 (Sunday) Premier League Match Highlights
- UK– BBC The Football League Show[48] – Championship, League 1 & League 2 Match Highlights (Saturday)
- UK– Sky Sports[49] – Official Online Championship, League 1 & League 2 Match Highlights/Previews
Software
- Google Chrome[50] – browser with Flash built in
- uBlock Origin[51] – Block ads and other stuff. Absolutely essential for using visiting streaming sites
- Recommended VPN: Cyberghost VPN You should never use free proxies, often they are spyware or open your IP address to unknown parties online.
Acestream and Sopcast Tutorials
App Tutorial
- Sopcast[59]
- ACE Stream[60]
- VLC Player[61]
Install them, then go to reddit soccerstreams, choose the match you want to watch, check the comments, and enjoy your game!
Depending on which software is needed to watch the stream, there are usually two routes:
- Sopcast – link starts with sop:// – your browser will ask you how to handle this link, choose sopcast. It will open and try to connect to the stream. After it’s buffered it will start playing. It’s usually choppy and not the best looking, so that’s why I use VLC. In Sopcast, go to options, set extrenal player to vlc and every time you connect to a stream you can pause the sopcast playback and then click on the left button [63] – your stream will start playing in VLC, where you can set up filters, deinterlacing, resize window and have a better looking picture overall.
- ACE Stream – link starts with acestream:// which opens a player similar to VLC and starts playing or it can be a web page with a flash window similar to firstrow, except it uses acestream browser player and the quality is much higher.
- Flash videos play directly in the browser. Quality is often lower, and the sites are often filled with ads, so this should be your last resort.
