Goal TV, Asia’s pan-nation soccer television network, is to be broadcast in Indonesia for the first time, allowing fans of European soccer clubs in the country to see more of their teams. The two channels, Goal TV 1 and Goal TV 2, will particularly focus on English Premier League clubs Manchester United and Liverpool, the two European clubs with the strongest following in the region.

The channels will feature delayed coverage of games plus highlights from the English Premier League and the Uefa Champions League as well as showing Spanish football and the German Bundesliga. Dedicated club programming will also feature heavily, as will live coverage of games from the Scottish Premier League, Dutch Eredivisie and the Championship, England’s second-tier league.

The channels will be broadcast via the First Media platform in Indonesia, the latest of 12 Asian countries to take the channel since its launch in 2004.

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English champions United are particularly popular in Indonesia. The club had planned a lucrative pre-season friendly in Jakarta in July before a terrorist attack forced the team to cancel a 100,000 sell-out game against an all-star team from the Indonesian Super League, a move which cost the club an estimated US$2 million in revenues.