French Rugby League (LNR)

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…

Thibaut Chatelard, the long-serving chief marketing and revenue officer at France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), has taken up a new role at Ligue 1 football club AS Monaco.

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.

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.

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

France’s National Rugby League (LNR) has signed an extension to its sponsorship contract with battery manufacturer Duracell.

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.

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.

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has signed up gambling platform Betclic as a sponsor of its Top 14 competition.

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 €…

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…

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for a head of broadcast rights and content.

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has introduced more stringent financial guarantee measures and altered the payment schedule in its recently-launched domestic rights tender in the wake of the c…

The executive board of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has approved the issuing of a domestic broadcast rights auction for the top-tier Top 14 in a sales process launched in the same week as t…

French DIY chain Brico Dépôt has become a sponsor of French rugby union’s Top 14 in a deal that will begin with this weekend’s round of matches. T

An invitation to tender has been issued for official ball suppliers to the final stages of French rugby union’s Top 14 and Pro D2.

France's National Rugby League (LNR) is the latest French sports rights-holder to sign up supermarket chain Intermarché to a sponsorship deal.

Canal Plus will show the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and Brive on its C8 free-to-air channel