For most of the professional game, the answer is YouTube. World Table Tennis (WTT), which runs the international tour, streams its events on its own YouTube channel, and that is where Table Tennis England sends UK fans for tournaments such as the WTT China Smash. The BBC covers the Olympics and showed the finals weekend of the 2026 World Team Championships in London. English national events are on Table Tennis England's YouTube channel, and European competitions are on ETTU.tv, the European Table Tennis Union's streaming service.
The WTT tour
WTT is the commercial and events company of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It runs the main professional tour, from small Feeder events up to the Grand Smashes and the WTT Finals; our guide to the WTT event tiers explains the levels.
Its channel is at youtube.com/@wttglobal. You do not need an account to watch, and a free Google account lets you subscribe and get alerts when a stream starts. When WTT Feeder Manchester was played in April 2025, every match was shown live and free on the channel.
WTT sells television rights country by country. Dyn holds them in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and FanDuel TV in the US in 2026, and where a broadcaster has exclusive rights the YouTube stream can be blocked. From the UK the YouTube stream is usually the simplest way to watch. If a match will not play, check the event page on the WTT website or Table Tennis England's news page, which says where each big event can be seen.
The World Championships
The ITTF World Championships are streamed on the same YouTube channel. When London hosted the 2026 World Team Championships, all 12 tables at the Copper Box Arena were streamed free on WTT YouTube.
Once the event moved to OVO Arena Wembley, talkSPORT showed the main table live on its YouTube channel from 2 to 10 May, and the BBC covered the semi-finals and finals on 9 and 10 May on iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the app. For a Worlds held abroad, start with WTT YouTube. Our guide to the World Championships explains the format.
The Olympics
The BBC holds the UK free-to-air rights to the Olympics up to and including 2032, through the International Olympic Committee's deal with the European Broadcasting Union and Warner Bros. Discovery. Free-to-air coverage is selective, though, and table tennis competes with every other sport for airtime.
At Paris 2024 the BBC covered selected table tennis sessions, while every session of the Games was live on discovery+, Warner Bros. Discovery's paid service. TNT Sports streaming moved from discovery+ to HBO Max in March 2026. The full plans for table tennis at Los Angeles 2028 have not been published, so check closer to the Games. Our guide to Olympic table tennis covers the format and qualification.
European events
The European Table Tennis Union streams its competitions on ETTU.tv, and some also appear on its YouTube channel. The 2025 Champions League Final Four was streamed live and free on ettu.tv. For the 2025 European Team Championships in Zadar, ETTU.tv was blocked only in countries where a broadcaster held the rights, and the UK was not one of them.
Our guide to the European Champions League explains how the club competition works.
The professional leagues
The top club leagues have their own deals. Every match in the German Bundesliga (TTBL) in 2026-27 is live on Dyn, a German streaming service. Major League Table Tennis in the US shows every match of its 2026-27 season on its YouTube channel, with DAZN also carrying it. Our guide to the professional leagues explains who plays where.
English table tennis
Table Tennis England streams its biggest domestic events on its YouTube channel. The National Championships finals day in Nottingham in March 2026 was streamed all day, with full replays afterwards, and the Senior British Clubs League Premier weekends in 2026-27 are streamed live with replays too. It is the easiest way to see England's best players between international events.
Getting the times right
Many of the biggest events are in Asia. Beijing and Hong Kong are eight hours ahead of the UK in winter and seven hours ahead during British Summer Time, so a 7pm session in Hong Kong in December starts at 11am in the UK. Japan is one hour further ahead. The 2026 WTT Finals are in Hong Kong from 9 to 13 December, so most of the action will be in the UK morning and early afternoon. European events such as WTT Champions Frankfurt are in the UK evening, one hour behind central European time.
Our events pages and the schedule show match times in your own time zone.
Your next steps
Pick an event from the events pages, then read how the world rankings work so you know who the seeds are, and see the season month by month to plan what to watch next.