Top 14

Rugby Union
Media

Broadcasters bidding for domestic rights to French rugby union’s top-tier Top 14 and second-tier Pro D2 will be able to lodge offers across four or five seasons according to the details of the tender announced today (Tuesday).
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Media

French rugby union’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) will continue its strategy of taking its domestic rights to market well before the expiry of its current agreement by soon launching an invitation t…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French automotive manufacturer Peugeot has extended its long-running association with domestic Top 14 champion Stade Toulousain by agreeing a three-season renewal to its role as the rugby union club’s m…
Rugby Union
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus pulled in its best ratings in nearly a decade for the final of the Top 14, the top division of French rugby union, while public broadcaster France Télévisions secured a…
Rugby Union
Media

The United Rugby Championship, European Professional Club Rugby and France’s Top 14 have bundled their US media rights together for the first time and secured a deal with streaming service FloSports.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French Top 14 rugby union club Stade Toulousain has agreed a two-season extension to its sponsorship deal with employment agency Actual.
Rugby Union
Licensing & Merchandising

Blockchain provider Socios.com has signed new team deals in rugby union with French Top 14 league club Stade Français and South African side The Sharks.
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Media

Public broadcaster France Télévisions has extended its domestic free-to-air rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 final until the end of the 2026-27 season.
Rugby Union
Licensing & Merchandising

Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), organising body of the top two divisions of French club rugby union, is seeking partners to deliver a global non-fungible token (NFT) offering
Rugby Union
Events

Marseille’s Stade Vélodrome will host the final of France’s Top 14 rugby union club competition in 2024, with the Stade de France set to be unavailable due to Paris’s staging of the summer Olympic Games. Fr
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French real estate company Iad has agreed a deal to sponsor France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), operator of the Top 14 club competition.
Rugby Union
Media

Commercial broadcaster TV Asahi has acquired rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 until the end of the season.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has agreed a two-season sponsorship deal with Cordier by InVivo, a co-operative for the winemaking industry.
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has recruited François Cotiche from France’s Professional Football League (LFP) as its head of media rights and content.
Rugby Union
Media

Subscription broadcaster Premier Sports has acquired broadcast rights in the UK and Ireland to the Top 14, France’s top-tier rugby union club competition, until the end of the 2022-23 season.
Rugby Union
Governance

René Bouscatel, the former president of French Top 14 club Stade Toulousain, has been elected president of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the rugby union body that operates the country’s Top …
Football
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Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has held on to one of its flagship properties in France by retaining rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 from 2023-24 to 2026-27 in a deal worth an average of €…
Rugby Union
Media

The invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 is reported to have attracted bids from broadcasters including incumbent rights-holder Canal Plus and free-to-air d…