How to watch Sky Sports and TNT Sports on your phone or tablet

Let’s be honest: life doesn’t stop for sport. The climactic springtime run-in in many sports is the most dramatic, most unmissable stretch of the sporting calendar, but it also coincides with the time of year when we’re least likely to be parked on the sofa to watch it. Barbecues, beer gardens, Bank Holidays, actual holidays – they all conspire to drag us away from our screens at exactly the wrong moment. How. Very. Dare. They.

The good news? Your Virgin TV subscription means you’ve got more ways to watch than you might think. Whether it’s the Premier League conclusion, the Champions League final, F1, Roland-Garros or the first glorious weeks of the cricket season, here’s how to catch it all on your phone, laptop or tablet, wherever you happen to be.

If your Virgin TV package includes Sky Sports, you can stream it live through the Sky Sports app at no extra cost. That means Sky Sports’ enormous portfolio travels with you: Premier League football, Formula One, cricket, golf, darts and plenty more besides, all live, all in your pocket.

The app also lets you catch up on anything you missed, so if life got in the way of a race, a match or a highlights show, it’s all there waiting for you.

How to get set up on the Sky Sports app:

1. Download the Sky Sports app from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android) – it’s free to download

2. Open the app and select Sign in

3. Choose Sign in with Virgin Media and enter your My Virgin Media username and password

4. Sky Sports channels and content included in your package will be available straight away

5. Head to Live and find your channel. Watch, cheer, repeat

That really is all there is to it. You can also browse the upcoming schedule, set reminders for key events and watch on-demand content, all in the same place.

Quite a lot, as it happens. Football wraps up in style with the EFL Play-Off Finals over the late May Bank Holiday weekend, followed by Premier League final day on Sunday 24 May – which, as ever, will be dramatic, chaotic and probably decided in the last ten minutes. Soak it all in, because the summer is long.

Darts fans are well catered for too, with the World Cup of Darts from 11-14 June and the iconic World Matchplay from 18-26 July both live on Sky Sports. Meanwhile, two of the calendar’s most glamorous Formula One weekends are coming up: the Monaco Grand Prix from 5-7 June and the British Grand Prix at Silverstone from 3-5 July. Whether you’re watching from the sofa or somewhere considerably sunnier, both are unmissable.

Cricket takes over the summer in typically comprehensive fashion. The men’s and women’s T20 Blast season runs from 22 May to 18 July, England Women face India in a T20 Series from 28 May to 2 June and England Men take on New Zealand in a Test Series from 4-29 June. Then it’s straight into the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, hosted in England and Wales from 12 June to 5 July, before England Men face India across T20s and ODIs from 1-19 July, with England Women v India in a Test match from 10-13 July, rounding out an extraordinary summer of cricket.

Golf is no less packed. The US Women’s Open is from 4-7 June, followed by the US Open from 18-21 June, the Women’s PGA Championship from 25-28 June, the Evian Championship from 9-12 July and – the one every golf fan circles in the calendar – The Open Championship from 16-19 July at Royal Birkdale. The Women’s Open from 30 July to 2 August then brings the curtain down on a remarkable summer of major golf.

Check out everything live on Sky Sports this month so you can plan ahead and make sure you’re set up before the big moments arrive.

TNT Sports is where the UEFA Champions League final lives (Saturday 30 May, Budapest – and yes, Arsenal are in it, in case you’ve somehow missed that), alongside the UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues, exclusive Premier League games, UFC, PREM Rugby, MotoGP, UCI World Tour cycling, snooker and more.

And you don’t need to be in front of your TV to catch all the action – you can watch it on the go. Customers who subscribe to TNT Sports can now get it via the HBO Max app, the new streaming home of TNT Sports.

If you watch on Virgin TV 360 or our Stream box, you can find the HBO Max app in the Apps section of the home screen. From there, navigate to the HBO Max app and launch it to activate your entitlement by following the on-screen instructions. You can then install the HBO Max app on your mobile device, log in and start watching.

If you watch TV on our V6 or TiVo® box, you won’t be able to access the HBO Max app on the box. But if you install it on your device and log in, Virgin Media will send you an activation email. Click the link, follow the steps to activate your entitlement to HBO Max, and you’ll be able to start streaming. No additional cost, no fuss.

There’s more than one way to watch TNT Sports on the move. If your Virgin Media package includes TNT Sports, then it’s all available to stream live through Virgin TV Go at no extra cost.

How to get set up on Virgin TV Go:

1. Download the Virgin TV Go app from the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android)

2. Open the app and sign in with your My Virgin Media username and password

3. Head to Live TV and find the TNT Sports channels – if they’re in your package, they’ll be right there

4. Tap, watch and try not to spill your drink when the goal goes in

You can also browse the TV guide, set reminders and catch up on on-demand content, all through the same app. Find out more about the Virgin TV Go app, and if you want to squeeze the best possible picture out of it wherever you are, we’ve got some handy tips for that too.

Football fans are in for a feast of finals. The UEFA Europa League final kicks things off on Wednesday 20 May in Istanbul, followed by the UEFA Conference League final on Wednesday 27 May in Leipzig. Then comes the big one: the UEFA Champions League final on Saturday 30 May in Budapest. Back home at Wembley, on 31 May, the Adobe Women’s FA Cup final is the last big event that rounds off the football season.

Tennis? Roland-Garros runs from 24 May to 7 June in Paris, with Jannik Sinner looking to complete a career Grand Slam and Emma Raducanu among the British hopes on the clay (fitness permitting). And if that wasn’t enough action, the Tour de France gets under way on 4 July, rolling through France until 26 July in one of the great sporting spectacles of the summer.

See what’s live on TNT Sports this month and get your viewing schedule sorted now.

You’ll need a decent connection. Live sport in particular benefits from a strong signal. If you’re on WiFi, great. If you’re using mobile data, make sure you’ve got enough in your allowance before you start streaming a two-hour match (and don’t forget the possibility of extra-time and penalties).

Download before you go. The Virgin TV Go app lets you download selected content to watch offline – which is very handy if you’re heading somewhere with patchy signal and need your highlights fix later.

One account, multiple devices. Your Virgin TV Go login works across your phone, tablet and other devices, so the whole family can be catered for, even if you’re all in different places watching different things at once.

If you’re not seeing Sky Sports in the Virgin TV Go app, it might just mean it’s not part of your current package. Log in to My Virgin Media to see what you’ve got and what you can add – with a summer of sport ahead, it might be worth treating yourself.

And if you’re not a Virgin Media customer yet: our broadband and TV bundles include access to Sky Sports and TNT Sports, along with the Virgin TV Go app, so you can take it all with you. With a summer like this one shaping up, there’s never been a better moment to get set up.