The North American Soccer League is about to significantly widen its reach with a TV broadcast deal with beIN Sports, The Telegraph has learned.

The deal will be in addition to those with ONE World Sports, which was announced on Tuesday, and ESPN3.

NASL executives had been in tentative discussions with CBS Sports but are on the cusp of signing a deal with beIN Sports ahead of the 2016 Spring Season.

BeIN Sports, which is currently in around 17 million American homes, holds the rights to La Liga, Ligue 1, Serie A and English Championship matches in the United States.

Ray Hudson, who played for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the original NASL, is a pundit on beIN Sports.