TNT Sports is the home of European football nights on British screens. It grew out of the old BT Sport and, since 26 March 2025, streams exclusively on HBO Max in the UK after leaving discovery+. For the 2025/26 season the channel holds the UK rights to every UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League tie, plus Saturday lunchtime Premier League games and two midweek rounds, Gallagher Premiership rugby, MotoGP, UFC, boxing and international cricket. The catch is location: the service is licensed for the UK and Ireland only, so abroad the stream dies with a regional-availability error. Your account is fine; your IP address is the problem.
The fix is Surfshark. Connect to a server in the UK and HBO Max sees a local viewer again, restoring live sport in 4K. You still pay for the HBO Max bundle yourself, around ≈ $41.40 a month; the VPN only changes where the app thinks you are. Once it is on, you watch on a phone, laptop or smart TV exactly as you would back home, and setup takes only a couple of minutes before kickoff.
TNT Sports actively blocks VPNs. Only certain providers reliably bypass the detection.
| VPN Service | Price | TNT Sports | Tested | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SurfsharkBEST | From $1.78/mo | ✓ Works | July 4 | Try it |
 NordVPN | From $2.99/mo | ✓ Works | July 6 | Open |
 ExpressVPN | From $2.79/mo | ✓ Works | July 4 | Open |
 Private Internet Access | From $1.79/mo | ~ Partial | July 3 | Open |
 CyberGhost | From $1.75/mo | ~ Partial | July 3 | Open |
 IPVanish | From $2.19/mo | ~ Partial | July 1 | Open |
 ProtonVPN | From $3.59/mo | ~ Partial | July 5 | Open |
✓ Works✓ Works✓ Works~ Partial~ Partial~ Partial~ PartialTakes about 2 minutes. Works on your phone, tablet, TV, PC, or laptop.
TNT Sports works in 2 countries, including in the United Kingdom and in Ireland. In 192 more it is blocked, and outside available regions you will need a VPN.
TNT Sports is blocked in the United States, in Australia, in Canada, in New Zealand and in Germany, plus in 187 more countries. To access it, use a premium VPN like Surfshark.
TNT Sports is Warner Bros. Discovery’s UK sports broadcaster, created in July 2023 when it rebranded the former BT Sport. In the UK it is the exclusive home of the UEFA Champions League (more than 185 matches a season), the Women’s Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League, alongside selected Premier League games (its rights now run to 2029), the Emirates FA Cup, Gallagher Premiership and European club rugby, MotoGP, UFC and boxing, plus Grand Slam tennis, Grand Tour cycling, snooker and the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Since 26 March 2025 it has left discovery+: in the UK it now streams on HBO Max, where existing subscribers keep the same login, while in Ireland it stays with partners such as Sky and Virgin Media. It is a UK and Ireland service and is geo-blocked elsewhere, so watching from abroad means a VPN connected back to the UK.
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