I have everything I need. Critical verified facts (Aug 2026):

• SSC is off air. It lost Saudi football rights to Thmanyah (SRMG) in June 2025 (2025/26–2030/31, SAR 2.32B), its Badr transponders went dark Oct 2025, and SSC closed permanently July 31, 2026.
• The correct 2026 frequency for Saudi football is Thmanyah on Arabsat Badr 8 (26°E): 11919 H 27500 3/4 (confirmed via multiple sources incl. an Aug 13, 2026 announcement; Nilesat feed 12360 V recently stopped).
• The existing published article lists SSC frequencies that are now all dead — reproducing them as “correct 2026” would be fabrication.

I’ll write the article truthfully — same title and technician voice, but the “6 frequencies” are the six transponders that actually matter now (live + dead-but-recognizable so readers can spot scam lists). Internal links come only from the sitemap.

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Correct SSC Frequencies 2026: Only 6 Frequencies from a Saudi Satellite Dish Technician

I’ve been installing dishes in Riyadh since 2014, and 2026 is the strangest year of the lot. Not because the hardware changed. Not because the satellite moved. Because the channel people keep asking me about doesn’t exist anymore.

Every week, someone prints a “correct SSC frequencies 2026” list from some blog and calls me to say the screen is black. The list isn’t wrong the way most people think. It’s wrong the way a map of a demolished street is wrong — it points to something that used to be there.

So here is the straight version, from someone who climbs the roof and checks the meter instead of copying numbers from other blogs. There are exactly six transponders you need to understand for Saudi sports in 2026. Three are alive. Three are dead. Learn the difference and no frequency list on the internet can fool you again.

What Actually Happened to SSC

You can’t fix a channel problem until you know the channel moved. So let’s be precise about the timeline, because most articles stop at “try this frequency” and never explain why everything changed.

• April 2021: The Saudi Sports Company (SSC) was founded to hold the domestic broadcast rights for Saudi football.
• August 2021: SSC began broadcasting, carrying the Saudi Pro League (Roshn League), King’s Cup, Saudi Super Cup and more.
• June 14, 2025: The Saudi Professional League, the First Division League and the Saudi Football Federation awarded exclusive MENA broadcast rights to Thmanyah Publishing and Distribution, a subsidiary of the Saudi Research and Media Group (SRMG). The deal runs from the 2025/26 season through 2030/31 and was valued at about SAR 2.32 billion.
• August 2025: Thmanyah launched its satellite channels and app, beginning with the Saudi Super Cup, then the full Roshn League season.
• October 2025: SSC reduced from nine channels to four, then stopped satellite broadcasting entirely. Its Badr transponder on 12418 MHz went dead.
• July 31, 2026: SSC closed permanently. It was the last working day for the company’s employees.

Read that again: SSC does not broadcast in 2026. There is no correct SSC frequency in 2026, for the simple reason that the network that used those frequencies no longer exists. Anyone selling you an “SSC frequency 2026” is selling you a dead number — either from an old list or from a list that never worked at all.

That’s not a minor detail. It’s the entire answer to why your dish finds nothing.

Why the Old Lists Fail

The confusing part is that many of the old SSC frequencies were real once. That’s what makes them dangerous. A list showing 12418 H or 12380 H looks plausible because those transponders genuinely carried Saudi sports — in 2023 and 2024. By late 2025 they were dark.

When Saudi football rights changed hands, the whole transmission plan changed with them. The old SSC muxes were repurposed or switched off, and Thmanyah moved onto its own transponders on a different satellite in the same orbital slot.

Most of the frequency lists you’ll find, especially in Telegram groups and ad-stuffed blogs, were written in 2023 and have been copy-pasted ever since. The authors don’t re-test. They just repost. That’s why the same dead frequencies appear on dozens of sites with confident “2026” labels.

If a list contains any of these, treat the whole page as suspect:

• Any channel called “SSC” still marked as live.
• Any “KSA Sports” channel. Those brands ended years ago.
• Any frequency without the satellite name, polarity and symbol rate. A frequency number alone is useless.
• Any source that promises “hacked” or “unlocked” premium feeds. Those don’t exist.

The Only 6 Frequencies That Matter in 2026

Here is the short list I actually carry. Three transponders will get you Saudi football today. Three are dead-but-recognizable, so you can spot garbage lists instantly.

#	Frequency	Polarity	Symbol Rate	FEC	Satellite	What’s On It	Status
1	11919	H	27500	3/4	Arabsat Badr 8 (26°E)	Thmanyah — Roshn League, King’s Cup, Super Cup, Yelo League	LIVE
2	12015	V	27500	3/4	Arabsat Badr 8 (26°E)	Thmanyah secondary feed	Active, moves — blind scan
3	12149	H	27500	5/6	Arabsat Badr 8 (26°E)	Saudi Sport 1/2/3 HD (SBA network, free-to-air)	LIVE
4	12360	V	27500	3/4	Nilesat (7°W)	Thmanyah’s old Nilesat feed	Stopped Aug 2026
5	12380	H	27500	3/4	Badr 26°E	SSC’s former multiplex	Dead since 2025
6	12418	H	27500	3/4	Badr 26°E	SSC’s former multiplex	Dead since Oct 2025

The one you actually need is row 1. Thmanyah’s main satellite frequency on Arabsat Badr 8 is 11919 MHz, Horizontal, 27500, 3/4. That’s the transponder carrying the Roshn League, the King’s Cup, the Saudi Super Cup and the Yelo League, free-to-air for most matches. It was re-confirmed in mid-August 2026, when Thmanyah announced its Nilesat feed had stopped and that Arabsat Badr 8 was now the only satellite home for its channels.

Row 3 is worth adding as a bonus. Saudi Sport 1, 2 and 3 HD on the SBA network sit on 12149 H, 27500, 5/6 on the same Badr 8 position, and they’re free-to-air. If you’re a casual fan who doesn’t need every premium match, those three are a genuinely useful complement.

Rows 5 and 6 are why you keep failing. If a “2026” list tells you to enter 12380 H or 12418 H, it’s a 2024 list with a new date. Both have been dark for almost a year.

First, Stop Confusing the Satellites

Before you type a single frequency, make sure your dish is even looking at the right part of the sky. This is the single most common cause of “dead frequency” complaints I get — and it has nothing to do with the frequency at all.

• Badr / Arabsat sits at 26.0° East. From Saudi Arabia, that’s roughly southeast.
• Nilesat sits at 7.0° West. From the same location, that’s west.

Two different satellites, two different corners of the sky. A dish aimed at Nilesat will never find a Thmanyah channel on Badr, no matter what frequency you enter. If your dish is pointing west, turn it east. About one in four calls I take ends right there.

One more thing worth knowing: Badr and Nilesat are close together in a few lists, but they are not interchangeable. The old SSC feeds and the current Thmanyah feeds are on Badr. There is no Saudi football on Nilesat. If someone tells you otherwise, they’re describing a different service entirely.

How to Enter the Frequency Correctly

Once the dish is on Badr 8, the setup is straightforward. These steps take most people less than ten minutes:

1. Open your receiver’s menu.
2. Go to Installation or Settings, then Manual Search / Frequency Search.
3. Select Arabsat Badr (26°E) as the satellite. If your receiver doesn’t list “Badr 8” specifically, choose Badr or 26 East.
4. Enter 11919, select Horizontal (H), set symbol rate to 27500 and FEC to 3/4.
5. Start the search. When channels appear, save them.
6. If nothing appears, enable Network Search / Blind Scan if your receiver has it, then re-scan the whole satellite. Blind scan often picks up transponders that manual lists miss.

A quick check first: the signal meter should show you a strength level before you even search. If it’s near zero, the dish is not on Badr — re-align before changing frequencies.

DVB-S2 and the Receiver Trap

There’s one hardware detail that catches more people than the frequencies do. The current Saudi sports channels broadcast in DVB-S2 with MPEG-4 (HD). Older receivers that only support DVB-S physically cannot decode this signal. It’s not a settings problem. The chip simply can’t do it.

If your receiver is more than about eight years old and shows no picture no matter what frequency you enter, check its manual for “DVB-S2” and “MPEG-4”. If neither appears, that box will never show these channels. A basic DVB-S2 HD receiver costs very little in 2026, and it’s the cheapest fix in the whole job. I’ve had clients buy new LNBs, new cables and pay for repeat visits — when the real problem was a pre-2015 receiver.

Speaking of LNBs, don’t go cheap. A low-quality universal LNB with a high noise figure will struggle to hold a signal on the higher Ku-band transponders, and Saudi summer heat does not help. A decent brand LNB costs a little more and saves a dozen headaches. Same for the cabling — cheap RG-6 with bad shielding fades fast in the sun.

How to Check If Your Dish Is Really the Problem

Run this checklist before you blame any frequency list:

• Is the dish aimed at 26°E (Badr), not 7°W (Nilesat)? — Confirm on the signal meter.
• Is the mount tight? Loose brackets drift a degree or two in wind, and a degree is enough to lose a beam.
• Is the LNB clean and facing the dish correctly? Condensation and dust cost real signal strength.
• Does the receiver support DVB-S2 / MPEG-4?
• Is the frequency entered with the right polarity? H and V are not interchangeable — a horizontal frequency entered as vertical will find nothing.
• Did you try a blind scan? Manual entry fails if the published symbol rate or FEC is slightly off. A blind scan doesn’t care about the published number.

Most of the “the frequency doesn’t work” calls I get turn out to be dish alignment or a single wrong polarity, not a bad transponder. Check the hardware before you buy a new subscription card or a “better” frequency list.

What to Watch It On Instead

Satellite isn’t the only way to watch Saudi football in 2026, and for many people it isn’t the best one anymore. Thmanyah’s digital platform covers the same competitions — the Roshn League, King’s Cup, Super Cup and Yelo League — and it’s available on Android, iOS, Apple TV, Android TV and on Samsung and LG smart TVs. The app streams the matches free and doesn’t depend on your dish, your LNB or your roof.

If you already watch a lot of TV over the internet instead of satellite, you might find it cheaper and simpler than installing a new dish — our IPTV vs cable TV cost comparison walks through how the numbers actually stack up. And if streaming ever stutters on match night, this IPTV buffering troubleshooting guide fixes most of it in a few minutes. For people outside Saudi Arabia, a good VPN is often the missing piece for reliable access to region-restricted feeds — this guide to the best VPNs for IPTV covers what actually matters.

For the fan who just wants scores and schedules without turning on the TV, the best free live score apps of 2026 are worth a look. But if you specifically want the match on the big screen, the satellite path is still the classic answer — you just need the right six numbers in your head.

FAQ

Does SSC still broadcast in 2026?
No. SSC stopped satellite broadcasting in October 2025 and closed permanently on July 31, 2026, after losing the Saudi football rights to Thmanyah.

What is the correct frequency for Saudi football in 2026?
Thmanyah on Arabsat Badr 8 (26°E): 11919 MHz, Horizontal, 27500, 3/4. Most Roshn League, King’s Cup and Super Cup matches are free-to-air on this transponder.

Are the old SSC frequencies 12380 and 12418 still working?
No. Both are dead. 12418 went dark in October 2025 and 12380 earlier that year. Any “2026” list containing them is outdated.

Is SSC on Nilesat?
No. SSC was never reliably there, and Thmanyah’s Nilesat feed was stopped in August 2026. Saudi football is on Arabsat Badr 8 at 26°E.

Why can’t I find the channels even with the right frequency?
Usually one of three things: the dish is aimed at the wrong satellite (7°W instead of 26°E), the receiver is old DVB-S only, or the polarity is entered wrong. Run the checklist above.

Do I need a subscription to watch Saudi football in 2026?
Most matches on the Thmanyah satellite channel are free-to-air. Premium or additional content may sit behind a subscription on the streaming platform. Nothing about this involves “hacked” feeds — anyone selling those is scamming you.

Summary: Your 60-Second Action Plan

• Delete every SSC frequency list you have printed or bookmarked.
• Memorize the six transponders above — 11919 H, 12015 V, 12149 H (live) and 12360 V, 12380 H, 12418 H (dead).
• Aim your dish at 26°E (Badr 8), not Nilesat.
• Enter 11919 H 27500 3/4 and do a manual search, then a blind scan if needed.
• Check the receiver supports DVB-S2 / MPEG-4 before you spend money on anything else.
• If the signal still won’t come up, it’s your alignment, your LNB, or your cabling — not the frequency.

That’s the whole job. The market changed in 2025, the channels moved in 2025, and almost nobody updated their lists. But once you know the six numbers, none of it is mysterious. SSC is gone; Thmanyah is where the football lives; and it sits on Badr 8 at 11919 Horizontal, 27500, 3/4. Write that one down and you’re done.

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Should I adjust the angle — e.g., keep the original article’s SSC-first framing verbatim, or target a different primary frequency set? I can also produce an Arabic version if that’s the target audience.

see more : Complete Guide to Frequencies and Satellites French Television 2026