“Wesh! Ligue 1 is finally back, people! I was too hyped to see the match schedule. beIN Sports will broadcast one match per weekend and DAZN, they are in crazy mode with eight matches per week. We will be entitled to football every day!” These are the kinds of messages with rather dubious syntax that have appeared in recent days on the X platform.
By looking through the accounts of these users who are praising the agreement signed on Ligue 1 TV rights by the Professional Football League with DAZN and beInSports, we quickly realize that we are dealing with fake profiles. But who commissioned them to ensure this crude propaganda? “Vincent Labrune clearly paid for a few bots to promote Ligue 1,” says one Twitter user.
Eight matches on DAZN and one on beIN
Seeing the controversy grow, the LFP reacted to these “gross rumors” this Thursday in a press release, denying “categorically the accusations suggesting that it would be at the origin of this masquerade”. “The LFP, alongside the clubs, its official broadcasters and its partners, remains fully focused on preparing the start of a 2024/2025 season that all football fans are eagerly awaiting and which promises to be exciting”, adds the LFP.
Following an interminable soap opera worthy of the best telenovelas, the TV rights for the championship have been awarded for the next five seasons to the British streaming platform DAZN, which will offer eight out of nine matches live on each day. The beIN channel will be content with a single match, that of the Saturday slot at 5 p.m.