This company ripped me off for 6 months charging me twice and wouldn't cancel my subscription so I had to cancel my credit card.... delete this subscription and let's send them broke...
Forced to watch up to 7 mins of ads at halftime when watching super rugby replays, then second half starts 7 or so minutes into halftime and have to rewind to watch the skipped portion, paired with subscription increases. NOT happy Jan…!
Worst app experience I’ve ever had. I’ve never had to complain about any app before, but this was unacceptable. I only signed up to Stan to watch a movie. Right after subscribing, a pop-up for Stan Sport appeared and with one accidental tap, it charged me instantly — no proper confirmation. I contacted Stan immediately to explain it was a mistake,… Read more
but they refused to refund me. Poor customer service and a very misleading purchase process. Would not recommend.
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Although the subscription fee has increased, what you get for your money is well worth it. To have the Premier league, champions league and fa cup all covered by one provider for me is worth it. Plus all the extra sport and shows covered.
Day of extra games and it’s rubbish – Not able to see the last 5min of blues game the chef’s game was worse gave up not my internet as changed to nrl game and watch it fine Test rugby better not have this rubbish
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Couldn’t get Rugby live for over a week. Tried all recommended fixes to no avail. Contacted Stan support and the famous Pele came to the rescue. Was as good as his namesake. Back up and running. Thanks heaps Pele!
Follow-up · Yes, the problem did reoccur. Went to watch the next Wallabies test and no live picture. Watched it on 9 with ads. Not willing to go through cr^p every time I want to watch something. Was looking forward to Premier League but not willing to pay that amount of money to have to try and sort out problems every time I want to watch. Cancelled subscription.
For 20 dollars a month there should be -0 glitches and play back issues to watch sport. The one expectation when watching a game is to watch it in real time and they can't get that right. Do better
Follow-up · US tennis open was unwatchable, playback was freezing at virtually every point within the game and really laggy. Particularly frustrating glitches when watching a fast paced game like tennis
Live match Villa vs Newcastle unwatchable. Freezing every few minutes. Have to restart at minimum bandwidth with 10 minutes missing. I have fibre to the home running at 500 mbps. Stan is advertising 4k. Also the scores of the concurrently running… Read more
Nottingham Forest vs Brentford game were shown ruining the replay value. Min games on replay are watchable. I don't see the point of an "Australian broadcast". An disappointing start.
Follow-up · It remains a great shame that watching live live telecast of the fist EPL game of the week, which used to be a great pleasure, is not longer possible. The screen freezes on average every 2 minutes, the clock stops, and then restarts 20 seconds later into the game. And this is on the low quality setting. I have fibre to the home running at 500… Read more
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All premiere leaugue games 13/02/2026 don't flow as they should! It's like a few split seconds have been cut every second or two. The flow jumps around as does the sound. I checked the internet quality and have full bars so don't blame the internet Stan! This problem does not happen with Netflix, Prime or Disney+. I can't watch a game like this! … Read more
Stan often gets it wrong. Sometimes the crowd's too loud and you can't hear the commentators. Sometimes they forget to turn the comentators mic on at all. I'm getting pretty sick of Stan's [Name Removed]. I understand that on a day when there might be 6 or 7 games on Stan rushes the editing department to "Hurry up and get the games on the app"! they don't make the time or have the staff to check the (lack of) quality of their product and we are expected to not complain and watch what we're given! We PAY for that stan! And....... No apologies nor acknowledgement of their mess up! I'm under the impression that Stan have a super cheap knock of deal with whoever sends what they show to us. PUT MORE STAFF ON AND GET A BETTER PROVIDER STAN!
Nothing better than having my email platform, which is jam packed with jib interview related material, educational material for work get even more clogged up with another vendor telling me to write a review about the service I received. Stan is concurrently the third such vendor related email at the moment telling me to get on with it. A guy… Read more
called Matthew was very prompt and provided very good customer service.
Um gee wiz.
More importantly Stan's viewing platform is extremely cumbersome and not very user friendly. There is a massive difference (especially when watching sport between a platform where you just click on the screen and the action is paused rather than the really really annoying having ti activate the mouse and get it into position ti click on the smallish 'Pause' icon before it disappears.
Worse than that. Far worse is that every single rugby and soccer game I watch has an inactive 'Skiip Intro' and 'Skip Halftime' button. You can always click the Skip Intro button a thousand times for any game in any sport and get absolutely No Result. Hitting 'Skip Halftime' does nothing and then using that slide from screen to screen function only ever land you as far as you can go, which is always some locked up ad screen saying coverage will resume in about 3 minutes and 34 seconds.
Poor quality streaming – Just signed up for Stan sports to watch Olympics coverage. It's the day before the opening ceremony so demand can't be high, but already videos are not loading, those that are keep freezing. I'm not looking forward to how much further it's going to deteriorate once the games actually start. Please Stan get some more capacity and bandwidth into… Read more · 1
your systems. And we have multiple streaming services and have very good streaming service, so I'm sure it's not our connection. Update. Day 1, non stop error especially when we hit prime time. Various errors which their support page tries to blame on my modem, TV and internet connection, despite the fact everything else is working fine. Even when a stream loads it regularly stops with the spinning wheel of doom. Update I'm upgrading to 4 stars. Streaming has improved, I suspect they added more capacity over the first few days.Occasionally steam continues on low resolution for some time, but otherwise minimal errors. Errors still most likely during prime time, suggestion or is a capacity issue on their side.
Positive reviews
I'm a very fortunate and satisfied customer due to the positive customer service skills of Ken (Stan support). The gentleman had extensive Product knowledge with empathy and rapport. Displayed kind and patient listening skills. Turned my previous discontent into super satisfaction. Stan itself benefits immensely by employees of Kens efficiency and calibre.
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Mixup with my dates for subs..cant thank Angus at STAN /SPORTS enough.. solved immediately no fuss. I am grateful and so impressed with your efficiency with the correction Angus. Thank you very much.
I received an email purportedly from Stan offering a Thredbo winter holiday and referred it to Stan asking if this was a scam - Inhad a rapid response from Ben advising it was in fact genuine.
Negative reviews
Stan is an over priced heap of trash streaming platform that has a terrible selection of both series and films and their sports streaming services are freaking terrible. Always freezing, lagging and buffing. I would never ever ever recommend using Stan.
I usually get Stan Sport for the Tennis and was surprised to see advertising as I wasn't aware that Stan had decided to introduce ads on a subscription. I always go for the ad-free subscriptions and disappointed with Stan. I doubt that I will be subscribing in future. I also noticed with the Tennis this time that I found it difficult to… Read more
distinguish between the 4K and HD matches. Usually I can see the difference but not for the 2026 Australian Open. Previously the PQ Quality has been excellent but certainly not blown away this time around. Not worth having, unfortunately
How long is Stan's contract for the epl? Sick of spoilers and ads and in screen cuts of other match's during live matches Are people getting paid to ruin people's enjoyment when they know the score before A replay, thinking of getting a VPN ,
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Been on Stan since Optus sport had to merge over last year. Had no issues up until recently ironically when I've started to be slugged more money per month. Everytime I wish to watch EPL champions league etc I get error messages and I am required to turn off my tv and shield. Unplug it. Wait like 2 minutes. Turn it all back on and clear the cache… Read more
to get it to work. It's only Stan that has this issue. All my other streaming apps and internet based system work perfectly fine, just Stan with its glitches giving me a headache. If it wasn't for the football I'd be cancelling it tomorrow but I have no other way if watching EPL champions league fa cup etc. how wonderful for me. What a joke and they charge premium price for this rubbish.
Prompt service and response from Ken and Emma - took several emails however to reset password to sort problem of not being able to access STAN account on larger screen smart TV (was still accessible on ipad and iMac) and having account for neighbour come up on screen. Show reply
Stan unscrambled my password problem. They rolled out a few solutions until one finally worked. Thanks to Thomas, Ken, Nastasia, Tim, Angus and Kieran. The whole team. Show reply
Every 2 to 3 minutes it stops, skips then continues, never happened under optus and I have since upgraded internet and it still does it despite checks speed is better. Half the time the epl preview is up late as well.
Hi Tom, apologies for the frustration. That’s not the… Read more (+1 reply)
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Issue is I get logged out of Stan multiple times daily on my only TV. Its a clunky process to login and u need yr phone etc. I hate it and now hate Stan because of it. Also if you pause a show ie to answer a call etc it often throws you out ie cannot restart where you left off. Sent an email for help... nothing. I got their contact number.... its disconnected. Its a joke
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Absolutely cr#p, never works. 0 stars. If it wasn’t for you recently buying optus sport I would never have paid a cent for you again. Honestly sort it out so your channel actually works at least once a week would be nice.
Hi there, we're sorry to hear this! Our support team will be… Read more
A massive thanks to Ben (with follow up from Ken) for their outstanding customer service. Issues resolved in quick time with friendly responses backed by excellent product knowledge and straightforward instructions. Could not be happier with the service received from the Stan team. Show reply
I had an issue with logging into to my Stan Sport. I was transferred from Optus Sport to Stan in Oct25. I was originally set up with an old email address which caused some issues and added to the complexity of resolving my login problems. Support Staff were great, however, I appreciate that the complex issue was difficult to explain. Finally… Read more · 1
thanks to Stella, Ken and at the last stage Nastasia, we have managed to resolve the issue. All three support staff had an impact in resolving the issue and would like to send my appreciation to all three
I have been complaining about Stan for a while now. It’s been 2 months and Stan have not got back to me. I get a “oops something went wrong” message that pops up in front of what I’m watching. Problem is, the message is the problem! The show keeps playing behind it!! Stan…. Do better!!
I’ve watched the All Blacks replays the last two weekends and Stan has put in forced ads on sporting replays that get longer after each break. Before kick off I was forced to watch 2 minutes of ads, at haft time 3 minutes of ads and at full time 3 1/2 minutes of ads. Why am I paying a subscription fee if I am being forced to watch ads on replayed… Read more
sport??!!
I had issues with my wifi for one of the games(which is not stans fault) but each time my connection dropped out I was then forced again and again to watch the same ads pointing out I am paying for this service.
And when I reached out to stan they simply said they have introduced ads from July.
Also the fact that Stan put their fees up as soon as they started streaming the EPL without an option or even contact about the fee increase is a sign of a poorly run business only focused on profits.
I’ll be cancelling.
Stan's Live coverage of the Premier League is shocking! Signed up at start of season and live coverage lags and buffers for every live game. Its barely watchable and by the time the game had finished I am 20 minutes behind Reported this is August and now it's November and am sick of the same spin doctoring and no solurion Told it's being… Read more
investigated. Internet speed is fine, they blame my TV and tell me to use my computer instead but the live coverage lags on that too Customer service is a joke. They tell me if I'm not happy then I should unsubscribe but it's the only way to watch the Premier League in Australia. Appalling. I've.reported them to Fair Trading and they also got the same reply as I've been getting So if anyone else has this problem, the consumer is screwed I'm afraid
These guys are useless. Editing is pathetic. Worst of all, when I select "start over" on a sport game they play the live version which reveals the scores. Either get it right or leave it to Optus who were doing a 10/10, 5 star job.
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Stan appears to have sorted this out. Watching live EPL in 2025/26 not a problem. Great value now.