Cyril Linette, former candidate for the presidency of the LFP, warns of the alarming decline of Ligue 1, stressing that the championship “is in mortal danger” due to the sharp decline in its audience.
Nothing is going well for Ligue 1. Currently, DAZN, the main broadcaster, only has 400,000 subscribers, far from the objectives initially set, and this despite significant promotional efforts.
Cyril Linette, former candidate for the presidency of the LFP, highlights a drastic reduction in interest in French football, with illegal subscriptions on the rise and an absence of Parisian bars subscribing to the broadcast of matches. The frequent change of broadcasters also contributed to this crisis, worsening the already worrying situation of sport in France.
“Who still talks about Ligue 1 in bistros?”
“Who still talks about Ligue 1 in bistros? Listen carefully to conversations in bistros, less and less,” assures Cyril Linette. “Could a scene like that of Le Dîner de cons find its place today in a film, in a fiction? I don't think anyone would have the idea of putting a scene with a Ligue 1 match that Daniel Prévost wants to watch at a friend's house. Also think about collective subscriptions. My son wanted to watch the Classic in a bar in Paris on Sunday, but he couldn't find any. No Parisian bar has collectively subscribed to DAZN. It was also a major consumption of football and major Ligue 1 matches. It’s catastrophic.”
“Ligue 1 is in mortal danger,” he warned in Les Grandes Gueules du Sport, on RMC, this Sunday morning. Will this lack of interest in Ligue 1 favor projects like the Super League? The threat is there…
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