Following England's victory over Andorra on Saturday night, TheFA.com explains the situation regarding the TV coverage of The Three Lions' 2010 World Cup Qualifiers.
The rights for away qualification matches are not The FA's to sell.
This week's games belong to the Andorran and Croatian FAs, in the same way that England's home matches form part of our broadcast contract with ITV and Setanta.
In this particular case, the Andorran and Croatian FAs sold their away qualification matches to an agency ahead of the draw, who have then sold the English broadcast rights to Setanta. Any other broadcaster could have bid for those rights.
However, we can confirm that England fans will be able to watch all of the home qualifiers on ITV - due to the way we have sold our rights - along with our away friendlies including the match against Germany in November.
In addition, ITV also carries highlights for England home friendlies as part of the way The FA structured our broadcast contracts.
