After signing up for an NFHS Network subscription, you can start finding live, upcoming, or on demand school events.
Where Can I Watch Games?
You can watch games and events hosted on the NFHS Network through your mobile device, tablet, computer, or connected third-party streaming platform.
See our Ways to Watch page for detailed information and instructions.
For more information about streaming through third-party platforms, see our article Using Third-Party Apps to Watch the NFHS Network.
What Games Are Broadcast on the NFHS Network?
Most regular season games are produced by one of the participating schools.
While we provide the technology, platform, and support for schools to broadcast games, the schools have full control over which games they choose to broadcast on the Network. Schools also handle all elements of scheduling and production for regular season games.
The NFHS Network and respective state associations are often involved in the production of many post season and championship games. However, schools are still able to produce and broadcast post season and championship games at their own discretion.
How to Find Events
Once logged in to the NFHS Network, click on Watch Events from the header of any page.
From a mobile device browser, you will need to click the three-bar icon in the top-left, next to the search bar, in order to click on the Watch Events button.
From the Watch Events page, you can search for past, future, on-demand, and live events by filtering for Date, Sport, Gender, Level, State, and School.
On this page, you can then see any Live, Upcoming, or On Demand events meeting your criteria.
On demand videos are automatically uploaded to the network after the completion of the live broadcast, however, certain games or events may be unavailable for on demand viewing at the discretion of the school, state association, publisher, or network.
On demand events may also be partially or fully muted due to music copyright laws, with certain events having an audio-overlay in place of the original audio.
How to Manage Your Watch List
If you want to save an event to watch later, you can easily add them to your Watch List.
When viewing an event, you will see the Watch Later option below the video player.
Simply click Watch Later to add it to your Watch List. It will now say Added.
To see your saved events, click on your profile icon in the top-right corner and select Watch List.
This will bring you to your Watch Later list.
To remove a video from your Watch Later list, just click on the event and click on Added under the video player. This will remove it from your list and change to Watch Later once again.
How to Follow a School or Favorite a Team
Follow a School
You can follow a school to receive notifications when they have upcoming broadcasts. Following a school does not share any part of your subscription fee with the school, and you can follow as many schools as you like. For more information about supporting a school with your subscription, see our article How to Subscribe to the NFHS Network.
From their school page, click the Follow button.
The button will instantly change to Followed with a filled-in star.
See which Schools you follow
To see and manage which Schools you're following, click your profile image in the top-right corner of your page and select Following.
Scroll down to the bottom of the My Account page, and you'll see all schools listed under Following.
Unfollow a School
Click your profile image in the top-right corner of your page and select Following.
Scroll down to the Following section. To unfollow a school, click the star icon. This will instantly remove the school from your list and you will no longer be following them.
Favorite a Team
Favorite a team to keep track of them in your account and easily get to their event pages and broadcasts.
From the broadcast page of any event with competing teams, you'll see the teams displayed underneath the video player. Click Favorite to add the team to your account.
To see and manage the teams you're following, just click on your profile image and then My Teams.
On the My Account page, scroll down to the My Teams panel to see your favorites. Simply click on the star icon to remove a favorite.
From the pop-up, click Remove to confirm the removal of the team from your Favorites.
Why is My Game in a Blackout Period?
There are a couple of reasons why an event may not be broadcasting or appears to be in a Blackout Period:
- If a school is broadcasting their own game, they reserve the right to blackout the on demand replay for a period of time of their choosing. The most common reason for a school blacking out their own game is so that other schools cannot study their formations and plays to gain a competitive advantage.
- A game can also be blacked out due to conflicting television and media contracts. There are numerous local and regional ordinances concerning high school athletics to which schools must adhere to.
Can I Watch on More than One Device?
Your subscription allows for full access to steam live or on demand video for one device at a time. You can stream on different devices as long as you are only using one of those devices at a time.
If your account is used on multiple devices at the same time, you may encounter the following message:
Warning: Your account has now exceeded the number of allowed connections. Please click refresh to re-authorize.
You will have to sign out and then sign back into your account to regain access if you have exceeded maximum number of connections.
If you wish to watch content simultaneously on multiple devices, you will need to create another account and purchase an additional pass.
Technical Requirements to Watch the NFHS Network
To watch games from your computer, you will need to meet the following minimum requirements:
- Operating system Windows Vista or above or Mac OS 10.6 or above.
- Safari 5+ or current versions of Firefox or Chrome.
- Internet download speed of 10 Mbps or above. Test your speed.