FeedConstruct Locks Up Exclusive Rights to Nicaragua's Top Football Leagues
The data and streaming provider has secured whistle-to-whistle coverage of Liga Primera and Copa Nicaragua, continuing a busy 2026 push into Latin American sports rights.
FeedConstruct Expands Into Nicaraguan Club Football
FeedConstruct has secured exclusive streaming and data rights for Liga Primera and Copa Primera, Nicaragua’s two premier club football competitions, according to a report published July 21 by SBC News. The deal covers whistle-to-whistle live broadcasts of every match across both tournaments, handing the company’s network of sportsbook partners full access to the Nicaraguan football calendar.
The terms are exclusive, meaning no competing rights holder can offer the same product to operators shopping for Central American football content.
What Operators Are Getting
For sportsbook partners already plugged into FeedConstruct’s platform, the addition is essentially a new content vertical they can activate without signing a separate agreement. Full-match streaming paired with real-time data is the standard expectation for live betting products in 2026, and Nicaragua’s top two competitions now fit neatly into that format.
Ani Isakhanyan, Head of Rights and Content at FeedConstruct, framed the deal in terms of both portfolio value and market timing. “Securing these exclusive rights is a highly valuable addition to our portfolio,” she said, as quoted by SBC News. “Liga Primera and Copa Primera deliver the consistent football content that the global iGaming industry demands. This acquisition ensures our partners can offer comprehensive coverage of a rapidly emerging betting market.”
The phrase “rapidly emerging” is doing some real work there. Nicaragua has not historically been a marquee football betting market, but consistent, lower-tier league content has become increasingly attractive to operators looking to fill scheduling gaps and serve bettors in regions where local club football drives engagement.
A Year Built on Latin American Rights
This deal did not come out of nowhere. FeedConstruct has spent most of 2026 methodically acquiring Latin American sports rights, with basketball as the initial focus.
In January, according to SBC News, the company signed streaming and data agreements for the top basketball leagues in Chile and Bolivia. Weeks later it extended that approach to Argentina, locking up rights to more than 2,400 games of elite domestic basketball across a full season. The most recent basketball deal before the Nicaragua announcement covered Ecuador’s Liga Basquet Pro.
The Nicaraguan football rights represent a shift in sport but not in strategy. FeedConstruct is clearly treating Latin America as a growth region worth building out systematically, territory by territory, rather than pursuing a single landmark deal and calling it done.
Why Lower-Profile Leagues Matter
There is a practical logic to this kind of rights accumulation. Major European leagues are expensive, heavily competed over, and already well represented across most sportsbook platforms. South and Central American leagues, by contrast, often remain underserved by global data providers, particularly at the streaming level.
For an operator targeting bettors in Central America, or serving a diaspora audience in North America or Europe, reliable live coverage of Liga Primera can be a meaningful differentiator. FeedConstruct’s bet, essentially, is that aggregating enough of these markets creates a competitive moat no single flagship rights deal could match.
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup looming as the industry’s biggest near-term event, operators are also paying closer attention to football from football-passionate nations, even ones outside the traditional commercial spotlight. Nicaragua’s place in that story is modest, but FeedConstruct now owns the exclusive rights to tell it.
What rights did FeedConstruct secure in Nicaragua?
FeedConstruct secured exclusive streaming and data rights for both Liga Primera and Copa Primera, covering every game across both tournaments with whistle-to-whistle live broadcasts.
How does this fit into FeedConstruct's broader Latin American strategy?
The Nicaragua deal extends a pattern that began in January 2026, when FeedConstruct signed streaming and data deals for top basketball leagues in Chile and Bolivia, then expanded into Argentina and Ecuador in the months that followed.
What did FeedConstruct's Head of Rights and Content say about the deal?
Ani Isakhanyan, Head of Rights and Content at FeedConstruct, said the acquisition ensures partners can offer comprehensive coverage of what she described as a rapidly emerging betting market, while delivering the consistent football content the global iGaming industry demands.