Christian Pulisic’s move from Chelsea to AC Milan in summer 2023 reorganized where US viewers can follow the Hershey-born midfielder’s club football. The Premier League years through Stamford Bridge were Peacock-anchored. The Milan years run through Paramount+. The shift has been one of the cleanest single-app transitions of any USMNT player’s career — Serie A, Champions League, and the bulk of Milan’s competitive calendar all sit on CBS Sports’ US streaming platform.
The widget pulls Milan’s next two weeks of fixtures across Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League, and any pre-season or international tour matches when active.
Serie A: Paramount+
Every AC Milan Serie A match streams on Paramount+ in the US — $7.99 a month for the ad-supported tier, $12.99 ad-free. CBS Sports holds the US Serie A rights, and the league’s distribution runs through Paramount+ as the primary streaming platform. CBS Sports Network simulcasts a subset of marquee Serie A matches on cable, with Milan derbies, the AC Milan-Juventus fixtures, and the marquee European-spot races over-indexed in the cable simulcast slate.
Milan’s home matches at the San Siro typically kick off at 8:45pm Italian time, which becomes either 2:45pm Eastern (during European summer) or 3:45pm Eastern (during European winter, after daylight savings transitions). The afternoon kickoff window is one of the strongest US weekend soccer viewing windows — a Saturday or Sunday afternoon Italian fixture lands in prime US daytime weekend viewing.
CBS Sports Golazo, the studio team that built the Champions League US broadcast experience around Kate Abdo, Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher, and Micah Richards, also covers Serie A’s marquee fixtures. Pulisic-headlined matches typically receive expanded studio treatment, given the USMNT-and-Milan crossover audience.
Champions League: Paramount+, same subscription
Milan’s Champions League runs on Paramount+ — the same subscription as Serie A. CBS Sports holds the US Champions League rights through 2030, and the rights bundle Serie A, Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, EFL Cup, and select other UEFA competitions onto one platform.
Milan’s Champions League nights are typically Tuesday or Wednesday at 3pm Eastern, the strongest weekday US soccer viewing window. The full Golazo studio cycle (pre-match show, half-time analysis, post-match) covers Milan’s European campaigns with the same depth as Premier League sides’ UEFA broadcasts.
For Pulisic specifically, the Champions League broadcast is a meaningful audience-builder. CBS’s USMNT-friendly studio framing of his Milan European appearances has surfaced moments that the Premier League broadcast rights structure would have split across multiple apps and broadcasters.
Coppa Italia: separate broadcaster
The Coppa Italia, Italy’s domestic cup competition, has US rights that have moved across broadcasters across recent rights cycles. Paramount+ has carried Coppa Italia in some windows, but the rights are distinct from the Serie A package and have at times sat with other platforms. Milan’s Coppa Italia ties (typically a January through May window) require checking the specific match’s broadcaster.
The Supercoppa Italiana, the season-opening Italian super cup, has typically run on Paramount+ as part of CBS’s broader Italian football package, but the rights structure for the Supercoppa has also shifted across recent seasons.
Pre-season and US tours
AC Milan tour the US most pre-seasons, and Pulisic’s presence has materially raised the broadcast value of those tours. The Soccer Champions Tour and Florida Cup pre-season fixtures involving Milan have streamed across ESPN+, CBS, and direct-to-consumer streams, with the specific broadcaster varying match-by-match. Pulisic’s first Milan pre-season tour in 2023 produced multiple US broadcast appearances; subsequent pre-season tours have followed similar patterns.
The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, hosted in the US, included AC Milan’s qualification path through European coefficient calculations. The Club World Cup’s US distribution split across DAZN’s global rights and various national broadcasters; the 2026 expanded edition’s US distribution is still being finalized.
What Pulisic-following costs in the US
A complete annual subscription for a US fan focused on Pulisic’s Milan campaign: Paramount+ at $7.99 a month covers Serie A and Champions League. That’s $96 a year for the ad-supported tier, $156 for ad-free. The Paramount+ SHOWTIME bundle adds a meaningful US sports library and is worth considering at $12.99 a month if Champions League or Serie A is the household’s primary sports content.
Coppa Italia and pre-season tour matches add marginal cost depending on broadcaster.
The single-platform Pulisic-following experience compares favorably to the Premier League era, when his Chelsea matches ran across Peacock for league fixtures, Paramount+ for Champions League and EFL Cup, and ESPN+ for FA Cup. The Milan move reduced the subscription stack from three apps to one for the bulk of the calendar.
What changed about Pulisic’s US audience post-Milan
The audience-side effect of the Milan move has been measurable. Paramount+’s US Serie A viewership grew materially through Milan’s 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, with Pulisic-attributed lift visible in CBS’s published audience disclosures around marquee Milan-Juventus and Milan-Inter fixtures. The USMNT-and-Italian-football audience overlap was small pre-Pulisic; the move expanded it.
For the US Soccer Federation’s broadcast strategy, Pulisic’s Milan club-football platform alongside Paramount+’s CONCACAF Gold Cup and Nations League rights has created a broadcaster-and-player crossover that the federation has leveraged in marketing. The 2026 World Cup window in particular benefits from Pulisic’s Paramount+ club football audience cross-pollinating with FOX’s English-language World Cup audience.
Quick reference
- Serie A: Paramount+ ($7.99/month) — every Milan match
- Champions League: Paramount+ — same subscription
- Coppa Italia: Varies by season, check match
- Supercoppa Italiana: Typically Paramount+, varies
- US pre-season tour matches: Match-by-match, ESPN+/CBS/varies
- CBS Sports Network simulcasts: Marquee Milan derbies and top-of-table races