The Australian football league recently signed with the mega deal that will be remembered as the recordbreaker for broadcast rights. The biggest sports rights deal in Australian television history was finalized Thursday with the Australian Football League and broadcast partners free-to-air broadcaster Seven Network, paynet Foxtel and telco Telstra Corp. inking an AUS$1.235 billion ($1.32 billion), five-year arrangement.

The deal, according to AFL chair Mike Fitzpatrick, will see an “unprecedented amount of live football shown to more parts of Australia across more platforms than ever before."

The AFL is Australia’s native football game – the largest and one of four versions played here, which also include soccer, rugby league and rugby union.