L’Equipe 21 acquires EPL friendly rights

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired rights for a number of pre-season friendly matches featuring two football teams from the English Premier League.

L’Equipe 21 will broadcast live coverage of Chelsea’s games against Austrian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger at 19:30pm on July 23 and Slovenia PrvaLiga team Olimpija Ljubljana at 17:15pm on July 27.

In addition, L’Equipe 21 will show delayed coverage of Arsenal’s game against North American Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls on July 26. The programme will be shown at 14:00pm in France on July 27.