US technology giant Amazon has acquired exclusive German rights to select Uefa Champions League matches in a three-year deal from the start of the 2021/22 season.

The company will stream the European soccer competition’s top pick of matches played on Tuesday evenings via Amazon Prime Video, its over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform, in an arrangement covering 16 group stage and knockout games.

It is not clear how much Amazon has paid for its rights deal, while Team Marketing which handles the sales process for Uefa, European soccer’s governing body, is yet to decide how to distribute its other packages since closing the tender in Germany earlier in the month.

The announcement comes on the back of the Prime Video OTT service’s successful debut as a domestic broadcast partner to the Premier League, earlier this month.

Alex Green, Amazon Prime Video’s managing director of sport in Europe, said: “We’re excited to bring Uefa Champions League football to our customers in Germany. The Uefa Champions League is one of the most prestigious club competition in the world.”

Champions League rights in Germany are currently held by pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland, which also sublicenses select matches to the global subscription streaming service, DAZN, as part of deal reportedly worth €600m (£505m).

For Amazon, the deal marks an expansion of its operations in Germany where it has held domestic audio rights for the Bundesliga, German soccer’s top-flight, since 2017 and put out a behind-the-scenes documentary series with Borussia Dortmund earlier this year.

For Team Marketing, the deal continues as busy period. Having agreed a combined US$150 million a year deal with CBS and Univision for three seasons of US Champions League rights in early November, it later secured an extension with existing UK broadcast partner BT Sport for the same period. The new contract with BT is worth US$1.5 billion (UK£1.2 billion) and expires in 2024.

Latterly, pay-TV broadcasters BeIN Sports and Canal+ were later announced as the winners of the Champions League rights contracts in France, paying a combined €375 million (US$412 million) a year over that 2021 to 2024 rights cycle.