Plan A of the Professional Football League in the absence of an interested broadcaster to put in the 500 million euros now expected by Ligue 1 clubs, the channel that the L1 is considering launching could turn into a fiasco.
How will 2 million people, initially, be able to pay 30 euros per month just to afford the Ligue 1 matches of the 18 clubs involved in the 2024-2025 championship? Vincent Labrune and several presidents obviously think they have the answer and they are even ready to bank on this 100% Ligue 1 channel for a long time, where no other European country dares to do so. However, specialists are sounding the alarm and affirm that French football is heading straight into the wall with this channel set up by the LFP and which will be broadcast via the various media that wish it. In other words, Ligue 1 thinks it can put aside Canal+ and Beinsports by bringing together millions of eager L1 supporters. An opinion which is destroyed by Alexandre Aflalo, journalist at Parisian.
For our colleague, dare to imagine that this specific channel for Ligue 1 will bring together 2 million subscribers, where Médiapro and Amazon Prime came up against the reality of the championship audiences, apart from the huge posters, is a vast joke. “ Canal +, BeIN, Prime, even Mediapro, no Ligue 1 broadcaster has dared to offer such a high price. And the content offerings were infinitely greater. At €30 per month for L1, I don’t think you even have 150,000 subscribers. And I’m barely exaggerating “, announces our colleague, who promises an absolute catastrophe for Ligue 1 if Vincent Labrune goes through with this idea of selling a subscription to this channel solely devoted to Ligue 1 for 30 euros per month. The future will tell if the LFP is going through with its plan and how it will all end for the French championship, which officially begins on August 16.
