How to Watch Serie A 2025-26 in Saudi Arabia

Serie A has a long and devoted following in Saudi Arabia, sharpened in recent years by the Saudi Pro League's pull on Italian talent and coaching, and by the broader Gulf appetite for European club football. Juventus, Inter, AC Milan, Napoli and Roma all have meaningful Saudi followings, and the Milan and Rome derbies draw a real local audience. The good news for Saudi-based fans is that the broadcast picture for the 2025-26 season is simple: one service carries every match. The Serie A season runs from August 2025 to May 2026, and the kick-off times sit comfortably in the Saudi evening. The early Italian slot (12:30 p.m. CET, on the Saturday and Sunday lunchtime fixtures) lands around 2:30 p.m. Saudi time, an afternoon watch. The bulk of the Serie A schedule — the 3:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. CET slots — arrives at roughly 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Saudi time, neatly across the evening. The marquee 8:45 p.m. Italian prime-time fixtures, where the big matches usually sit, land at a sociable 10:45 p.m. in Riyadh and Jeddah.

StarzPlay, the leading subscription streaming service across the Middle East and North Africa, holds the exclusive MENA rights to Serie A and carries every match of the 2025-26 season. StarzPlay holds these rights through the 2027-28 season, so this is a stable home for Italian football in the region for the next few years. In Saudi Arabia, StarzPlay is the route to watch Serie A live — every fixture, every matchday, all on the one streaming service. StarzPlay carries the matches with Arabic-language and English-language commentary options, and provides live streams alongside full-match replays and condensed highlights on demand. For a Saudi fan, this makes a single StarzPlay subscription the only thing needed to follow Italian football across the season — there is no second service to add and no split rights to navigate. StarzPlay runs on a wide device range — iOS and Android phones and tablets, Apple TV, Chromecast, smart TVs from the major manufacturers, and the web player — and the subscription is sold on monthly and annual plans. Check StarzPlay's Saudi site for the current SAR pricing, and note that StarzPlay is frequently bundled with regional telecom and e-commerce partners, which can change the effective price.

Not the live matches. Serie A's MENA rights are exclusive to StarzPlay, a paid streaming service, and there is no free-to-air broadcaster carrying live Serie A in Saudi Arabia. The free element is limited to highlights: Serie A's official channels and YouTube post goal compilations and condensed recaps after matches, accessible from Saudi Arabia, and StarzPlay itself carries on-demand highlights for subscribers. There is no DAZN or beIN live Serie A route in Saudi Arabia for this rights cycle — the MENA streaming rights sit with StarzPlay. So if you want to watch Italian football live in Saudi Arabia, a StarzPlay subscription is the route. The cheapest comprehensive option is the StarzPlay subscription itself, which carries every match; check the current SAR pricing and any active telecom or e-commerce bundle at sign-up, as these can meaningfully lower the effective cost.

Saudi Arabia runs on Arabia Standard Time (AST), two hours ahead of Italy in the European winter and one hour ahead in summer. The standard Serie A kick-off slots translate to Saudi time approximately as: the 12:30 p.m. Italian lunchtime fixture lands around 2:30 p.m. AST; the 3:00 p.m. afternoon slot around 5:00 p.m.; the 6:00 p.m. evening slot around 8:00 p.m.; and the 8:45 p.m. Italian prime-time slot — where the marquee fixtures usually sit — around 10:45 p.m. AST. This is a comfortable evening alignment. The lunchtime fixture is a relaxed mid-afternoon watch. The 6:00 p.m. Italian games sit at 8:00 p.m. Saudi time, prime social viewing. The headline 8:45 p.m. kick-offs at 10:45 p.m. Saudi time are late but firmly within the evening, especially across the Friday–Saturday Saudi weekend. None of the schedule pushes deep into the small hours. Check Matchcast for the exact local kick-off time of every Serie A fixture in Saudi time, with the StarzPlay broadcast listing on each match page.

The route to live Serie A in Saudi Arabia is one StarzPlay subscription, which carries every match of the 2025-26 season — there is no second service to add and no free-to-air alternative for the live games. StarzPlay sells monthly and annual plans; the annual plan works out cheaper per month for a fan who follows Italian football across the full season. Watch for bundles. StarzPlay is regularly packaged with regional telecom operators and e-commerce partners across Saudi Arabia, and these bundles can lower the effective cost of the subscription substantially or add it onto a service you already pay for. Check StarzPlay's Saudi site and your telecom operator's offers for the current SAR pricing and any active bundle before subscribing directly. The free routes — Serie A's YouTube highlights, StarzPlay's on-demand recaps — cover the goals but not the live matches. For live Italian football in Saudi Arabia, StarzPlay is the single, exclusive answer through the 2027-28 season.