The League’s objectives for the next TV rights tender have been revealed. Be careful, this can make you dizzy knowing the situation of PSG and French football.
After almost two years of galloping inflation in France, French football also hopes to know this with its television rights. This will be the big issue of the start of the school year, since the LFP will put the rights of Ligue 1 into play on September 12. A decisive moment when the cards will be reshuffled in a dangerous way. Indeed, big moneymaker of French football for decades, Canal + has already announced its intention not to offer anything, while the encrypted channel was upset by the post-Mediapro decisions and focused on other competitions, or other sports.
The billion, the billion!
This does not prevent the LFP and Vincent Labrune from being particularly optimistic, even if it is probably a facade posture to explain that Ligue 1 is still a championship that fascinates spectators, in France and abroad. ‘foreign. The daily L’Equipe simply obtained the “business plan” for the coming years of the commercial subsidiary of the LFP, in order to find out what was intended for future TV rights.
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Currently, the League recovers 791 million euros, almost all of which comes from the sale of rights in the country (662 ME). For the upcoming call for tenders, Vincent Labrune has already indicated that he hopes to exceed the one billion euro mark, representing a 50% increase in French professional football revenue. The former president of OM aims to collect 1.063 billion euros, with in particular a surge in international rights, which should be sold at 200 ME. With the departures of Lionel Messi and the possible departure of Kylian Mbappé, PSG is the flagship team of Ligue 1 seen from abroad, and its transfer window will be closely scrutinized. This even if, abroad, it is above all the Parisian performances in the Champions League that are followed, more than the league matches against Strasbourg or Lorient…
CVC intends to hit the jackpot
Despite this, there is still optimism within the LFP, which sees even further with the call for tenders which will be issued in 2028 and which should bring in 1.8 billion euros for French football according to the business. plan of the commercial subsidiary of the League filed with the Paris Commercial Court. Figures that may seem ambitious, even if it is on these calculations that CVC, which participated, also decided to invest massively in French football in order to reap the benefits in the long term. A daring bet as French football has not really turned a corner abroad, and the hoped-for battle between broadcasters to broadcast Ligue 1 is not immediately obvious, Amazon currently losing 130 million euros per season with football according to a study by NPA Conseil.
