With DAZN and beIN Sports, Ligue 1 breathing a sigh of relief, viewers are in the dark

2024-07-16 06:58:41

The DAZN platform, which wins 8 of the 9 meetings each day, will have discussed with LFP prices ranging from 30 euros to 40 euros per month.

French football has to reach the moon. You finally have the sky falling on your head. You can always console yourself by telling yourself that you avoided the worst: the black screen on the French championship, which started, on August 16, is close. However, the agreement reached at the last minute on Sunday evening on the TV rights of L1 at the end of the board meeting of the Professional Football League (LFP), was not far from causing a dance of joy among the club bosses. The most they can do, in the short term, is faint relief.

The league has finally cleared for a ticket between the British platform DAZN and the Qatari channel beIN Sports, which will broadcast Ligue 1 games, at least for the next two seasons, for 500 million euros annually. DAZN has put 400 million euros per year on the table to broadcast eight of the nine matches each day. BeIN Sports returned to the game in the last minute to win back the remaining game…

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