How to watch Manchester City vs Liverpool: Live streams, TV coverage for the first FA Cup quarter-final of the season

Watch Manchester City vs Liverpool today as two Premier League big hitters slug it out for a place in the FA Cup semi-finals. FourFourTwo brings you all the details on live streams and TV channels, wherever you are in the world.

The Premier League has been delivering famous and infamous moments for three and a half decades but there have been few in 2025-26 that were better value than Erling Haaland's disallowed goal at Anfield.

Dominik Szoboszlai was sent off for his part in a magnificent, chaotic conclusion to what wasn't a classic until his late free kick ignited the game. Liverpool and Manchester City meet today for the first time since that February showdown.

Read on as FourFourTwo brings you all the information on how to watch Manchester City vs Liverpool online, on TV, and from anywhere.

Watch Manchester City vs Liverpool from anywhere

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Watch Manchester City vs Liverpool on TV in the UK

Manchester City vs Liverpool will be shown live on TNT Sports 1 today.

TNT Sports subscribers will be also able to stream the game. TNT Sports is no longer part of Discovery+ – the stream will be available instead on HBO Max, the new streaming home of TNT Sports.

Watch the FA Cup and Premier League on TNT Sports and HBO Max

You can either get TNT Sports on your TV, in a traditional TV package deal – prices vary by provider – or you can stream all the channels through HBO Max.

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Watch Manchester City vs Liverpool in the US

Manchester City vs Liverpool and all the other FA Cup quarter-final ties will be on ESPN in the United States and available to stream on ESPN Select.

ESPN Select on it's own starts at $12.99, but the best value packages has to be the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN bundle which includes all three streaming services for the price of just $19.99.

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How to watch Manchester City vs Liverpool in Australia

Football fans and FA Cup lovers in Australia can watch Manchester City vs Liverpool through Stan Sport.

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❗Coverage is geo-restricted. If you're not in Australia right now, you can still access your Stan Sport subscription by using a VPN such as NordVPN.

How they got here

Manchester City

• Third round: Manchester City 10-1 Exeter City
• Fourth round: Manchester City 2-0 Salford City
• Fifth round: Newcastle United 1-3 Manchester City

Liverpool

• Third round: Liverpool 4-1 Barnsley
• Fourth round: Liverpool 3-0 Brighton & Hove Albion
• Fifth round: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-3 Liverpool

Manchester City vs Liverpool: FA Cup quarter-final preview

Neither Man City nor Liverpool have really had to break a sweat in the previous three rounds of this season's FA Cup. City beat Exeter City 10-1 and then beat Salford City and Newcastle United by two clear goals each, and now they're 90 minutes from a swift Wembley return.

For all Liverpool's troubles on the pitch in their futile Premier League title defence, the FA Cup has been a breeze up to this point. After thrashing Barnsley and easing past Brighton & Hove Albion, both at home, they followed a chastening league defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers by immediately knocking them out in the fifth round.

The 2021-22 FA Cup winners travel to Paris to take on Paris Saint-Germain in another quarter-final after this game. City's Champions League ended in the round of 16 at the hands of Real Madrid, so their full concentration will be on Liverpool.

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The Reds have won their last four FA Cup fixtures against City, twice at Maine Road and once each at Anfield and Wembley, a run that stretches back to a quarter-final in 1988 and a cup campaign that ended in defeat against Wimbledon.

City won their seventh FA Cup three years ago, beating Arsenal and Chelsea on the way to a final victory over Manchester United. Liverpool fans might have enjoyed that outcome but they'll be hoping to deny City another trip to Wembley this season.

Pep Guardiola's men have already succeeded there once, defeating Premier League leaders Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final to claim the trophy for the sixth time in 11 years and ninth overall.

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FourFourTwo's prediction

Manchester City 2-1 Liverpool

FourFourTwo expects a nervy encounter at the Etihad Stadium but, ultimately, a Man City win in 90 minutes.