You can follow the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series, or MTB World Series (the umbrella name for all MTB World Cup disciplines), through various channels, including live broadcasts, free-to-view YouTube highlights, live feeds and more.
Below, you’ll find links and explainers for how to watch and follow the downhill, cross-country and enduro MTB World Cup disciplines from the comfort of your home (er, or someone else’s if you don’t want to pay a subscription fee).
For anyone who can’t pay a subscription fee to watch live racing (and that’s fair enough – especially if you live in the UK with the high sub price), how about asking your local bike shop or bike business to screen the World Cups?
WATCH DOWNHILL, CROSS-COUNTRY AND ENDURO HIGHLIGHTS AND OTHER CONTENT
For all things free-to-view, go to the MTB World Series YouTube page.
Note: since the start of the Enduro World Series in 2013, there has always been a post-race show from each EWS or Enduro World Cup (since 2023) free to view on YouTube. That is no longer the case as WBD last week announced a post-season series of eight documentary-style 23-minute episodes following the 2025 Enduro World Cup season. Read the press release here. There is still post-race raw/lightly edited footage free to view on the MTBWS YouTube.
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WATCH DOWNHILL AND CROSS-COUNTRY MTB WORLD CUPS LIVE AND IN REPLAY:
Since Warner Bros. Discovery took over the organising and broadcasting rights from the UCI and Red Bull in 2023, live racing coverage has been behind a paywall. While in the first year it was available to GCN+ subscribers, that changed in 2024 as GCN+ was scrapped by GCN’s owner (one, er, Warner Bros. Discovery, who later resold it back to its original owner).
For 2025, the channels where you can watch live racing have changed again.
In most of Europe, you’ll need a subscription to Max or Eurosport (which no longer has an online app, if you’re wondering why you had to transfer over to Max recently). To add to the confusion (we think it’s fair to say that), WBD has also just announced that Max is becoming HBO Max soon – it’s unclear if another subscription transfer will be required or if it’s just a name change.
In the UK, you need TNT Sports (formerly BT Sports), at probably the highest monthly sub price for any country. (So high that it was even debated in UK parliament.)
Anyway! Below you’ll find a list of what channels show the MTB World Cup live.
Any countries where there is no broadcast outlet have access to online streaming through MTBWS TV (MTB World Series TV), which is a sort-of new platform hosted by StayLive, the online platform where streaming was available in 2024.
Check the list below to see where you can catch all the Mountain Bike World Cup racing in your region.
EUROPE:
Andorra – Max & Eurosport
Austria – discovery+ & Eurosport
Belgium – HBO Max & Eurosport
Bosnia & Herzegovina – Max & Eurosport
Bulgaria – Max & Eurosport
Croatia – Max & Eurosport
Czechia – Max, Eurosport & CT Sport+
Denmark – Max & Eurosport
Faroe Islands – Max & Eurosport
Finland – Max & Eurosport
France – Max, Eurosport & L’Équipe (XCO live + XCC delayed)
Germany – discovery+ & Eurosport
Greece – Eurosport
Hungary – Max & Eurosport
Ireland – discovery+ & TNT Sports
Italy – discovery+ & Eurosport
Moldova – Max & Eurosport
Montenegro – Max & Eurosport
Netherlands – HBO Max & Eurosport
North Macedonia – Max & Eurosport
Norway – Max & Eurosport
Poland – Max & Eurosport
Portugal – Max & Eurosport
Romania – Max & Eurosport
Serbia – Max & Eurosport
Slovakia – Max & Eurosport
Slovenia – Max & Eurosport
Spain – Max & Eurosport
Sweden – Max & Eurosport
Switzerland – Eurosport & SRF/RSI
Türkiye: Eurosport
United Kingdom – discovery+ & TNT Sports
All other European territories – MTBWS TV
NORTH AMERICA:
Canada – Flosports
USA – Max
OCEANIA:
Australia – Stan Sport
New Zealand – MTBWS TV
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA:
Brazil – Rede Minas & Bandsport
Puerto Rico – Max
All other Central and South American territories: MTBWS TV
ASIA:
Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand – Eurosport
All other Asian territories: MTBWS TV
AFRICA:
Angola, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cape Verde, Cote d’lvoire, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial, Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Nigeria, Niger, Reunion, Rwanda, South Africa, Eswatini, São Tome and Principe, St Helena and Ascension, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Socotra, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia – Supersport
All other African territories: MTBWS TV
For more information about this year’s racing schedule head to the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series website.
*Misspent Summers cannot guarantee a headache-free viewing experience.
