The website made a statement declaring the end of its coverage of the EPL going forward
The UK's most popular illegal football live streaming site has taken the decision to stop broadcasting English Premier League matches effective immediately. In a statement on the website, the owners said that they intend to respect the official rights holders and stop illegally distributing copyright material. A pop-up appeared on the site as thousands of fans tried to watch matches this weekend. The statement read:
"Dear visitors, We decided to stop putting any link of the English Premier League matches on the site 'www.hesgoal.com' anymore. Sorry for that but we respect the English Premier League holder's rights."
The Popularity of Hesgoal
Hesgoal attracts a huge number of visitors in the UK every day as football fans look for methods of watching their favourite teams without shelling out on huge bills to the rights holders Sky, BT and others. Since its inception over ten years ago, the website has grown steadily and now attracts more than 40 million monthly visits, according to SimilarWeb.
Coverage of La Liga and Serie A seems to be unaffected for now with the site only taking down the Premier League and Scottish Premiership. This move may have been caused by the league's increased efforts to crack down on illegal live streaming platforms. It recently went to court in the US to request that CDN provider Cloudfare help identify the owners and operators of the Hesgoal website.
Illegal live streaming of football matches in the UK continues to be rife with many people using Hesgoal, Reddit Soccer Streams and other similar platforms to get access to their favourite teams and players.
However, Hesgoal will no longer be the best place to find Premier League coverage for free and fans will need to search elsewhere.
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