Ligue 1 is drifting. And it is not the latest words of Christophe Dugarry who will reassure the actors of French football. In the program Rothen ignites, the 1998 world champion sounded the alarm on Tuesday : “There is no more product, we go in front of a cataclysm.”
According to him, the media value of the championship is in free fall. From three million to 400,000 subscribers, the audience collapses. And with it, the interest of the diffusers. “” “In a year or two, you have no one left to broadcast the matches ”,
he warns.
Dazn and IPTV: the vicious circle that strangles French football
And in this announced media void, an invisible threat lurks: IPTV. If the official platforms desert, the spectators may turn massively to these illegal solutions to continue to follow Ligue 1.
Dazn in difficulty, the model called into question
Even JĂ©rĂ´me Rothen, yet favorable to a certain patience at the start of the season, no longer believes it. For him, Dazn was wrong on the whole line: quality of service contested, price deemed excessive, and a glaring lack of readability for fans.
He even predicted an early departure from the diffuser, yet contractually linked until the end of 2025. “They will go out as quickly as possible. This product, already fragile, will become even less good … and more expensive”he says.
An explosive situation, where French football could lose all control over its broadcast. And when no one wants to pay to see Ligue 1 legally, hacking will be the emergency way.
Towards a clear Ligue 1 … or invisible?
IPTV, in ambush, is no longer a simple system bypass: it is an alternative that threatens to become the norm if no lasting model is found. For Dugarry, the conclusion is clear: “It is necessary to reconstruct everything. ” Before it is too late.
