Ligue 2

BeIN Sports continues to withhold its first instalment payment for Ligue 1 rights amid ongoing doubts over its allocated sponsorship inventory and questions raised over the broadcaster’s media rights package.

BeIN Sports’ first instalment payment for its slice of Ligue 1 domestic rights remains unpaid with the broadcaster understood to be holding out for full details of the sponsorship inventory it has been awarded.

France's LFP has quickly closed an agreement for Ligue 2 domestic media rights on slightly improved terms, a far cry from its long drawn-out, and to-date unsolved, Ligue 1 sales process.

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is expected to re-start the Ligue 2 domestic rights sales process next week as negotiations around rights to the top tier continue to drag on just 78 days b…

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has announced its first international rights deal since launching a tender over six months ago, an 18-territory pact with Saran Media covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Clubs in Ligue 2, the second tier of football in France, have voted in favour of reducing the league from 20 teams to 18, a move that would bring it in line with the top-tier Ligue 1