Setanta Sports in the UK

• TRANMERE V LIVERPOOL - Saturday, July 12th
• SOUTHAMPTON V CELTIC - Friday, July 18th
• BARNET V ARSENAL - Saturday, July 19th
• ASTON VILLA - 1ST LEG INTERTOTO - Saturday, July 19th
• KAIZER CHIEFS v MAN UTD - Saturday, July 19th
• SPORTING LISBON v SUNDERLAND - Sunday, July 20th
• M'BORO V CELTIC - Tuesday, July 22nd
• SZOMBATHELYI HALIADAS V ARSENAL - Tuesday, July 22nd
• ORLANDO PIRATES v MAN UTD - Tuesday, July 22nd
• VITORIA SETUBAL v SUNDERLAND - Wednesday, July 23rd
• CARDIFF CITY V CELTIC - Thursday , July 24th
• HIBS V BARCELONA - Thursday, July 24th
• ASTON VILLA - 2ND LEG INTERTOTO - Saturday, July 26th
• DUNDEE UTD V BARCELONA - Saturday, July 26th
• KCHIEFS/OPIRATES v MAN UTD - Saturday, July 26th
• BURGENLANDIN V ARSENAL - Monday, July 28th
• NORWICH V SPURS - Monday, July 28th
• COBH RAMBLERS v SUNDERLAND - Monday, July 28th
• STUTTGART V ARSENAL - Wednesday, July 30th
• NOTTINGHAM FOREST v SUNDERLAND - Wednesday, July 30th
• HERTHA BERLIN V NEWCASTLE - Friday, August 1st
• MALLORCA V NEWCASTLE - Sunday, August 3rd
• HEARTS V HULL CITY - Sunday, August 3rd
• CELTIC V MAN CITY - Tuesday, August 5th/6th
• HUDDERSFIELD V ARSENAL - Wednesday, August 6th
• SHAMROCK ROVERS V SUNDERLAND - Friday, August 9th
• BOREHAM WOOD V ARSENAL - Wednesday, August 13th

As of 2008, Sky Digital offers the largest number of sports channels. For £12.99, you can subscribe to 10 Setanta Sports channels, including:

• Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Golf, Racing UK, Racing World, Celtic TV, Rangers TV and NASN

For more on Sky's packages, go to www.sky.com , or see our Sky page

If you're an existing Sky Digital customer, you can sign up to Setanta at www.setanta.com

Setanta is not available on FreeSat

Virgin Media Channels 538 and 539

To get cable TV, you have to be in a Virgin Media Cable area. You can watch Setanta via a special cable connection and a set top box.

Virgin Media customers can add the Setanta Sports package to their cable TV Lineup. The following channels are available:

• Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Golf, Racing UK, Celtic TV, Rangers TV and NASN.

Setanta Sports is included for free in the Virgin XL package.

For more on cable, see our Cable TV page or go to www.virginmedia.com

If you're an existing Virgin Media customer, you can sign up to Setenta at www.setanta.com

BT Vision is a digital TV service that combines broadband for live TV, and TV downloaded to your TV set over a BT Broadband connection

BT Vision offer the BT Vision Sport service , with content supplied by Setanta on their service. You can subscribe to their sports package for £4 a month, or get matches subscription-free on a pay-per-match basis.

BT Vision is free to BT Broadband customers, and you get a free set-top box. More details at www.bt.com/btbroadband, or on our BT Vision page page.

Freeview Channel 34

You can get Setanta Sports via a TV aerial. You'll need a Freeview receiver that has a card slot - one option is the Sagem ITD68 set-top box that has one month's free Setanta for under £50 - either direct from Setanta, or from www.argos.co.uk

If you have a TV set or a PVR with a suitable card slot, you may also be able to get Setanta - you will need a subscription card from Setanta.com, and you may also need a CAM (see below).

Subscription for the single Setanta channel is £10.99 a month - see www.setanta.com

Top Up TV Channel 34

Top Up TV offers a service that includes the basic Freeview channels, has a hard-disk recorder, and also downloads various TV programmes overnight, that you can watch on-demand later.

Top Up TV has done a deal with Setanta Sport, and with a Top Up TV Anytime set-top box, you can get Setanta Sports for £9.99 a month. This is a single channel offering, unlike Sky's multi-channel Setanta package.

More details on our Top Up TV Anytime page.

This service uses your existing phone line to deliver around 80 TV channels to your home and is available to the following UK towns: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leicester, Stevenage, Milton Keynes, Wolverhampton, Salford and Warrington

You're supplied with a special decoder box, and then have access to digital TV including Setanta Sports.

More on Tiscali TV at www.tiscali.co.uk/tv or on our Tiscali TV page

For £7.99 a month you can access three channels over your Internet connection on your desktop computer. The channels are:

• Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Golf.

For more, go to the Setanta Sports website.

Ordering Setanta

To order Setanta, or for more information on their sports service, go to www.setanta.com

If your set-top box has a card slot. It may be suitable for use with Setanta. Failing that, you can get a Sagem ITD68 box from Argos that has one month free Setanta for under £50. Search 'Setanta' at www.argos.co.uk.

For a box with a built-in recorder, consider the Top Up TV Anytime box.

We've had a couple of emails from people reporting problems with activation of their Setanta service on their Freeview box. If you're having a problem, you'll have to take this up directly with Setanta Sports (we can't help with service activation - we're just an advice site). We can offer some suggestions though:

• Subscription / activation is sent over the air using the Freeview transmission system - you must have your set-top box switched on and connected to a TV aerial with a decent signal
• It helps to set the set-top box to the right channel
• Could you have quoted the wrong subscription card number when you activated your subscription?
• The over-the-air signal can take a while to get through - from experience this is around 15 minutes, but we understand Setanta quotes two hours
• Make sure your viewing card is correctly inserted (the right way up). Also, try rebooting your box
• If you're not getting a decent signal on the Setanta channel, this could cause problems - see our Reception page for help on improving signal reception and reducing interference.

If you still can't get activated either call Setanta Sports on 08712 00 33 22 to get sent a new activation signal, or try asking for advice in our Freeview forum.

To get Setanta Sport via satellite, you need a functioning Sky Digital Digibox and a Sky subscription card. We understand that you don't have to subscribe to Sky Digital to be able to subscribe to Setanta Sports - provided you have a Sky viewing card, you should be able to subscribe online at www.setanta.com.

If you need to get a Sky Subscription card without signing up to an annual Sky subscription, see our Free Sky page or check out Sky Pay Once.

Some digital TV sets have a card slot that may be suitable for use with a Setanta Sports subscription card. You may need a CAM (which stands for Conditional Access Module) that slots into your IDTV and accepts the subscription card. You can get a CAM ready for Setanta from Comet or Argos (Search "Setanta"). You can also get a CAM direct from Setanta's site.

More on CAMs on our Glossary