With 30% less, what each club would receive from TV rights in Ligue 1

June 11, 2024 at 2:55 p.m. by Thomas

Canal + holds the strings of Ligue 1 and that is not to the advantage of the League and the clubs it supports.

“A 30% drop in TV rights is looming,” it is written in the columns of The Team this Tuesday, in a file dedicated rights to the next Ligue 1 season and those that will follow. While negotiations for domestic rights are stalling and even if the international is on the rise for meager compensation, concern is growing among the leaders of Ligue 1 clubs who fear seeing revenues drop significantly from the start of the upcoming school year. .

TV rights could drop by 30% for Ligue 1

So from a cumulative total of close to 430 million to be shared this 2023-2024 season, the envelope could be reduced to around 300 million in the next championship. This is therefore a significant shortfall, knowing that as we have already detailed on Sportune for each club, that the share of audiovisual weighs from a quarter to two thirds of the turnover of each team, independently of the operations carried out on the transfer market.

Clubs which are sometimes heavily dependent on these revenues

What would then be the clubs’ income in this perspective of reduction? Below is a simulation which is based on the sum of audiovisual rights paid at the end of the 2022-2023 season, according to official figures from the DNCG. The exercise obviously suffers from downsides, it can only be taken as a trend. To make it fairer, we have withdrawn the shares of the European cups from the clubs that competed in them, which will not be too much in the future, for the qualifiers for the upcoming 2024-2025 season.

Prospects at best worrying and at worst alarming

Already behind the European neighbors who have superior TV rights and while Ligue 1 has already eaten its black bread in times of the Covid crisis, with the failure of the Mediapro project, the current outlook has everything to be alarming, at least for the most fragile teams which do not rely on rich shareholders, state, individual owners or solid investment funds. And patient.