The general assembly of the Professional Football League did not result in any really new information concerning the broadcast of the Ligue 1 championship next season. But Canal+’s position is clear…or almost.
We come, we lose and we leave. This is a bit like what the leaders of Ligue 1 experienced on Friday during the AGM of the LFP, since when leaving this meeting, they had no precise response from Vincent Labrune and his deputies on the broadcasting rights for the next championship. Apart from this nebulous idea of a 100% Ligue 1 channel at 30 euros per month which is nevertheless the workhorse of the League, even if the reactions are almost unanimous in saying that it is enormous stupidity to imagine that 2 million people will subscribe at this price. So, on the table, there are ultimately only two serious exit options for Ligue 1, namely whether Beinsports and Canal+, the only two groups likely to overturn the table and make a substantial offer for L1.
Long considered the number 1 candidate for these Ligue 1 TV rights, the Qatari sports channel has fallen into line, even if The team reveals this Saturday that it could finally launch at the last moment, as it did for Euro 2024, the idea being that Beinsports appears as the savior of the French championship by purchasing these famous rights at a lower price broadcasting of L1. But the name of Canal+ is never far away when we talk about football on television, even if Vincent Labrune and Maxime Saada, the big boss of C+, have difficulty being on the same wavelength. . The second believing that the first is trying to make him seem like the bad guy in this story.
However, the daily affirms that if the situation is tense between Ligue 1 and Canal+, all is not 100% lost. “ The LFP leaves the door open to a last minute solution if it emerges. Plan A (the same 100% L 1 antenna, but made by belN Sports and distributed exclusively by the Canal+ group), supposed to generate 700 million annual revenues, is forgotten. And never even existed according to the encrypted channel. Can it emerge from nothing at a significantly lower price? Hard to imagine, but not completely impossible », Write our colleagues.
