ESPN+ is now the library of content inside ESPN Select, a plan that costs $13.99 a month and streams only in the United States. To watch it from abroad, run StreamLocator on the device you watch on or on your home wi-fi router, so ESPN sees a US home connection, then sign in and play.
This guide covers what ESPN sells now, what each plan carries, what it costs, and how to watch from abroad.
If what you had was ESPN+, the plan you now want is called ESPN Select. Here is why the name changed.
If you went looking for an ESPN+ subscription and could not find one to buy, you were not imagining it. Disney’s own copy now reads "ESPN Select (formerly ESPN+)". ESPN+ is no longer a plan you sign up for. It is the name of a content library, and that library sits inside two plans.
ESPN answers the worried version of this question directly. Asked whether ESPN+ is going away, it says no: existing ESPN+ subscribers remain subscribers of the ESPN Select plan and continue to enjoy access to all ESPN+ content. Nothing was taken off anyone. Its plan selector spells the relationship out, labelling the cheaper option the ESPN Select Plan (ESPN+ Only).
So: two plans. ESPN Select is the successor to ESPN+ and carries the ESPN+ library. ESPN Unlimited sits above it and adds ESPN’s television channels.
If your habit was ESPN+, ESPN Select is your plan and nothing about your viewing changes. If you want the ESPN channels themselves, the ones a cable household in the States gets, that is ESPN Unlimited. People after American channels more widely tend to reach for a live TV service like Fubo.
ESPN Select carries all 380 LALIGA fixtures, in English and in Spanish, plus the FA Cup and the NWSL. Golf gets season-long PGA Tour coverage. Hockey gets out-of-market NHL through NHL Power Play, more than 1,000 games. Out-of-market means games involving teams from outside the area you are watching from. Then college sports, the PLL, and the full ESPN+ library, which ESPN counts at over 30,000 events.
If hockey is your sport and blackouts keep catching you, the same pattern turns up on TSN, a Canadian sports service. Our guide to blackouts on TSN explains how they work there.
ESPN Unlimited carries everything above and then adds the channels: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, SECN, ACCN, ESPN on ABC, SECNX, ACCNX and CW Sports. It also adds Monday Night Football and the NFL Network channel. That is what the NFL means here: Monday night games and that one channel. It is not every NFL game, and it does not include the Sunday afternoon games.
That last part is the correction most guides have not made. Monday Night Football and the NFL Network channel sit on ESPN Unlimited and only there. If you have read that ESPN+ carries select NFL games, that was true once and is not true now. Select will not get you Monday Night Football.
Tennis is the other one to check. In 2026 the all-courts main-draw stream was an ESPN Unlimited entitlement. Only Qualifying stayed exclusive to ESPN+ and Select. So "Wimbledon on ESPN+" is half a sentence: the qualifying rounds on Select, the main draw across all courts on Unlimited.
WWE Premium Live Events, the NBA and the WNBA are also available through ESPN. ESPN’s own site is where to check what each plan includes. MLB.TV is sold through ESPN too, bringing out-of-market MLB, MLB Network and Big Inning with it.
ESPN Select costs $13.99 a month, or $139.99 a year. ESPN Unlimited costs $31.99 a month, or $319.99 a year. If you came here looking for the ESPN Plus price, the first of those is your number, under the plan’s new name.
ESPN sells four worth knowing. Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Select together, $21.99 a month. The same three with ESPN Unlimited, $35.99 a month. ESPN with FOX One, $39.99 a month. ESPN Unlimited with NFL+ Premium, $41.99 a month. MLB.TV is sold through ESPN as well, currently $149.99 a season.
ESPN’s line is that bundles are only available in the United States, the same territory rule that governs the ESPN and Hulu services themselves. Buying each service on its own is the practical route from abroad, and the connection that opens ESPN opens Paramount+ as well.
There is a changeover running right now. ESPN states that anyone who subscribed before 20 August 2026 keeps their old price until their first billing date after 17 September 2026. So if the ESPN+ price on your statement sits below the figures above, that is why, and it moves at your first renewal past that date. Subscribing fresh today, you pay the figures above.
ESPN puts it plainly: the ESPN and Hulu Services are only available in the United States and certain of its territories. Your subscription is fine and the app still will not stream. Open it in Canada and you get nothing. Open it in the UK and the same.
StreamLocator gives you a US connection, the kind a household in the US already has. ESPN sees that and plays.
Most VPNs push thousands of people through the same small pool of company servers, and broadcasters have got good at spotting it. When a crowd of viewers all arrives at ESPN looking identical, the door shuts on the whole crowd at once. That is a fact about the way VPNs are built, not a fault in the one you bought.
Your VPN is worth keeping. It does a real job well: holding your traffic to yourself on hotel wi-fi, reaching your work systems from abroad. Watching sport is a different job, and a streaming-built alternative to a VPN is what fits it. If you have worked through a dozen lists of the best VPN for ESPN+ and none opened the app, the paragraph above is why.
Router setup covers the whole house, including devices that will not run an app. ESPN’s supported list is long: iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Amazon Fire tablet, Windows 10 and 11, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV (4th gen and later), Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, Xbox, Android TV, Hisense, LG webOS, Samsung Tizen, Vizio SmartCast, Xfinity Flex and X1, Xumo, and web browsers.
The same connection reaches the rest of American television, so MGM+, Fubo, Paramount+ and the US Netflix catalogue open on the same set-up.
ESPN’s payment page names what it accepts: Disney Visa, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and PayPal. Have StreamLocator running before you sign up, so ESPN sees the right connection while you create the account.
A blackout is a different animal from a country restriction. ESPN’s wording: certain live sporting events available through your ESPN subscription may be subject to blackouts. If you are in the home television territory of a team playing in a game, then that game may be blacked out.
The rule is local rather than national. Blackouts apply to telecasts that have been sold regionally or locally under league, conference and local rightsholder agreements, and ESPN enforces them according to the location you are watching from. ESPN works out where you are from your connection.
Third-party products carry the leagues’ own policies rather than ESPN’s: MLB and NHL blackout rules follow their own games, and MLB.TV through ESPN is a US-market product.
Search for an ESPN blackout workaround and you will turn up a lot of noise. The mechanic underneath is simple. ESPN checks where you are watching from, and if that is the home television territory of one of the teams playing, that game goes dark while the rest of the schedule plays as normal. That is the answer to the question most people ask from abroad. Blackouts follow the location you are watching from, and with StreamLocator that is the location you have chosen, so whether any given game is dark depends on that location and on who holds the local rights to it. Out-of-market packages such as NHL Power Play exist because of this rule. The same rule runs on TSN in Canada, and our guide to blackouts on TSN covers what it means there.
| Route | Service cost | What you get | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPN Select with StreamLocatorRecommended | $13.99 a month, $139.99 a year | The ESPN+ library, LALIGA, NHL, college sports | The cheapest way to the ESPN+ library, on any device you own |
| ESPN Unlimited with StreamLocator | $31.99 a month, $319.99 a year | The same library plus ESPN's channels, Monday Night Football and NFL Network | $18 a month more than Select, paid whether or not you watch the channels |
| Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Select bundle | $21.99 a month | Three services on one bill | ESPN sells bundles in the United States only, so it is not a route open to you from abroad |
| Waiting until you are back in the US | Nothing | Nothing until you land | The season runs without you, and the games you miss are not live any more |
The first row is what this guide is about. The other three show you where each of them stops.
Yes, though not as a plan you can buy. ESPN+ is now the name of the content library, and that library sits inside the ESPN Select plan. ESPN’s own answer is that existing ESPN+ subscribers remain subscribers of the ESPN Select plan and continue to enjoy access to all ESPN+ content.
ESPN Select costs $13.99 a month, or $139.99 a year. If you subscribed before 20 August 2026, ESPN says you keep your old price until your first billing date after 17 September 2026.
ESPN Select carries the ESPN+ library: all 380 LALIGA fixtures in English and Spanish, the FA Cup, the NWSL, season-long PGA Tour coverage, out-of-market NHL, college sports and the PLL. ESPN Unlimited carries all of that and adds the channels, among them ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN and ACCN, plus Monday Night Football and the NFL Network channel. That is not every NFL game and does not include the Sunday afternoon games. Unlimited is $31.99 a month against $13.99 for Select.
StreamLocator gives you a US connection of the kind a household in the US already has, and ESPN treats it as exactly that, because that is what a broadcaster expects from a subscriber sitting at home. Most VPNs work differently. They push thousands of people out through the same small pool of company servers, and streaming services have got good at recognising that pattern, so the door shuts on everyone arriving that way at once. It is a fact about how VPNs are built rather than a fault in the one you own.
Because someone other than ESPN holds the local rights to it. Blackouts apply to telecasts sold regionally or locally under league, conference and local rightsholder agreements, and ESPN enforces them according to the location you are watching from. If that is the home television territory of one of the teams playing, that game may be dark for you while the rest of the schedule plays normally.
No. They are two separate things. You pay ESPN for the content, the same as a viewer in the United States does, and StreamLocator for the access that lets you reach it. They stay separate because StreamLocator is not tied to one service, so the same account works with other American streamers too.
ESPN+ did not go anywhere. It became the library inside ESPN Select at $13.99 a month, with ESPN Unlimited above it for the channels, Monday Night Football and NFL Network. The LALIGA season, the college schedule, the out-of-market hockey: all of it is still behind the login you already have. The only thing in the way is where your connection appears to be, and the same fix opens Fubo alongside it.
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