French Ligue 1

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the European football market contracting 13 per cent to overall revenues of €25.2bn ($29.9

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has reacted to the Nanterre Commercial Court’s Ligue 1 broadcast rights ruling by initiating its own legal action against pay-television broadcaster and rig…

French Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain has agreed new sponsorship deals with online used cars platform Autohero and vaping brand Geekvape

Dutch telco Ziggo has acquired broadcast rights to French football’s Ligue 1 and extended rights to various other sports properties in a response to the market entry by the media company Nordic Entertainment (…

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has taken legal action to force Canal Plus to honour the €332m ($392m) Ligue 1 sublicensing deal between the parties.

Internet giant Amazon has not approached pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports to acquire the latter’s package of Ligue 1 rights, according to the retailer’s head of sports rights acquisitions, Alex Gre…

The row over the value of broadcast rights to French football’s Ligue 1 shows no signs of abating just weeks before the new season begins, after pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus signalled its intention t…

Girondins de Bordeaux and Angers SCO will retain Ligue 1 status after a ruling ordering their relegation to the second tier of French club football for financial irregularities was overturned

French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco has signed a regional sponsorship deal for the Asian market with betting operator AYX for the next two seasons

Telco Iliad is in talks with the French Professional Football League (LFP) to lower its fee for near-live digital clip rights to Ligue 1

French Ligue 1 football club RC Lens has agreed a sponsorship deal with online poker and sports betting company Winamax

The Disney media group has secured rights to broadcast the French Ligue 1 in Brazil from 2021-22 until 2023-24

Multi-asset investment platform eToro has upgraded its relationship with French Ligue 1 outfit AS Monaco to become the club’s main shirt sponsor.

Pay-television broadcasters Foxtel Group and beIN Sports have signed a new multi-year carriage and advertising sales deal in Australia

MG Motor France has signed a three-year shirt sleeve deal with French Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais in a deal brokered by the Sportfive agency

Host Broadcast Services, the Infront-owned broadcast production entity, is said to be close to being appointed to a host broadcast contract for French football matches shown by Amazon, the online retail…

The president of the French Professional Football League (LFP) has called on pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to show “common sense” after the latter decided to cease coverage of Ligue 1 matches in …

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has yet to decide on a response to Canal Plus’ insistence that it will no longer show Ligue 1 matches after the decision by the French Professional Football League (…