Fox Soccer
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| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | 21st Century Fox (Fox Networks Group) |
| Sister channels | Fox Soccer Plus |
| History | |
| Launched | November 1, 1997 |
| Closed | September 2, 2013 |
| Replaced by | FXX Fox Soccer Plus (namesake) |
| Former names | Fox Sports World (1997–2005) Fox Soccer Channel (2005–2011) |
| Links | |
| Website | foxsports.com/soccer |
Fox Soccer, formerly Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports World, was an American television specialty channel specializing in soccer, owned by News Corporation and later 21st Century Fox, that operated from 1997 to 2013. It originally broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but during its last years on air was strictly devoted to soccer.
Due to Fox consolidating its cable sports rights on the then-new general-interest channels Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, and following the loss of local television rights to broadcast Premier League soccer events to NBC, Fox Soccer was replaced on September 2, 2013, by FXX, an entertainment sister network to FX. The vast majority of the remaining sports programming from Fox Soccer was moved to Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, which launched on August 17, 2013. Fox Soccer Plus, a spin-off channel which launched in 2010, continues to operate.