The Premier League has not finished dominating other European championships financially. On the bright side, his clubs will probably come and spend their money in Ligue 1 by offering large sums for players from our teams. You have surely read since last night, the Premier League has formalized the sale of its domestic TV rights for the period 2025-2029. As is often the case, she got there early, and again hit the jackpot. While the market is on the decline, as in Serie A for example and unfortunately probably soon in Ligue 1, the English championship has achieved the feat of limiting the damage.
Better still, the overall deal is the largest ever signed in the history of English sport, with a total amount of 7.8 billion euros over 4 years. For comparison, the current contract bound the broadcasters over 3 years (2022-2025) for the sum of 5.8 billion euros. Compared to the season, the new deal amounts to 1.95 billion euros per season, compared to 1.94 billion euros currently. A very slight increase therefore, for a greater number of matches broadcast. In fact, 270 of the 380 matches per season will be broadcast. The Saturday 4 p.m. match slot is still not available, in order to encourage attendance in the stadiums.
A record price, not counting the TV rights sold abroad
Other events, such as “Monday Night Football”, and the flagship slots on Saturday 1:30 p.m. or Sunday 5:30 p.m., will still be there. The BBC maintains its legendary “Match of the day” program, with summaries of the matches. Only one player already present walked away from the call for tenders, namely Amazon, which arrived on English soil 4 years ago, for 20 matches per season. Everything is therefore shared between Skysports, 4 lots out of 5, and TNT Sport (new name of BT Sport). Skysports will broadcast at least 215 matches per season and will have the multiplex of the last day of the championship.
All the players are rubbing their hands, from Richard Masters, general manager of the Premier League to the bosses of Sky Sports and TNT Sport, even if, in the end, between the longer cycle (4 years instead of 3) and a number of matches broadcast which increases, the price paid per match decreases. With almost 2 billion per season, the English championship crushes the competition in the field of domestic TV rights. And it will be necessary to add to this amount the rights sold abroad. In 2022, the renegotiation with foreign partners (Canal Plus in France) made it possible to reach 6.3 billion euros for the 2022-2028 cycle. Enough to turn the head of Vincent Labrune, the president of the LFP, entangled in over-the-counter negotiations for the sale of Ligue 1 TV rights…
