During Nice-Montpellier, April 25, 2021. – Lionel Urman / Sipa
Since the Mediapro fiasco and the end of the Téléfoot channel in February, Canal + has offered all Ligue 1 matches on its channels. But the agreement with the LFP only runs until the end of the season. And French football is not at the end of its troubles, in its quest for broadcaster (s) until 2024,
according to The team. The encrypted channel is in fact only interested in the shocks of L1. Deemed unprofitable because of half-mast audiences, the all-rounder of matches, or 80% of matches all the same, must therefore find a taker.
To date, Canal + remains the holder of lot 3 for the period 2020-2024 (two matches per day, without the ten best posters of the season) and must pay 330 million euros per year, indicates the sports daily. An obviously insufficient sum for the LFP, which had concluded an agreement of 1.153 billion euros per year in 2018, which we now know what it led to …
With DAZN, it’s far from done
So, to whom to pass the Strasbourg – Brest or Metz – Angers which are also the salt of our Ligue 1? beN Sports would not be very hot, while DAZN could step into the game. But the English-born sports streaming service, which has reclaimed the rights to the Italian Serie A until 2024, would like to get started first. ‘agreement with Canal + for the distribution of a possible future channel. However, Canal + would not be very warm to welcome this possible competitor. In short, Vincent Labrune, president of the LFP, has not finished tearing hair from his abundant mane.