Ligue 1

[JerseyAddict]

Big game... Ended in first 30min...

 

[serghei]

Big game... Ended in first 30min...

1st place vs 2nd place superderby. So PSG beat the 2nd best team in the league 6-1 without Neymar.

 

[JerseyAddict]

1st place vs 2nd place superderby. So PSG beat the 2nd best team in the league 6-1 without Neymar.

exactly thoughts. What a League.

 

[Slevinn]

exactly thoughts. What a League.

A league where players get beat up by the ref and where the champions loan out their best player to their rival.

Cant believe what a joke Ligue 1 is.

 

[Devils]

Monaco, the team that was supposed to be fine this year after selling most of their star players and loaning their best player to their 'main competitor' in the league, has decided to refund all of the tickets for tonight after getting historically hammered by their 'main competitor' 7-1.

 

[BarcaOG]

tinpot trophy

 

[JerseyAddict]

400m of Euros not even on the field and 7:1 trashing... yeeeeeeee

 

[Benzema10]

Give that much money to Lyon, they would do wonders.

 

[Devils]

Little Tommy Tuchel has quite the task ahead of him next season.

 

[Sterlingfan2000]

Little Tommy Tuchel has quite the task ahead of him next season.

Neymar should be prepared for Veg Oil and Vegetables Fish in his meals

 

[El Flaco]

Strasbourg will play in L1 next season after an insane FK goal against Lyon in stoppage time.

[gfy]AnotherDangerousHawk[/gfy]

 

[Lutece FC]

Chinese-owned Mediapro grab French football TV rights in mega 1 billion euro offer

Chinese-owned Mediapro crashed French football’s television rights party in style Tuesday, snapping up the right to broadcast Ligue 1 matches domestically for the period 2020 to 2024 for 1.153 billion euros ($1.33 billion) annually, the French league (LFP) announced.

By AFP - May 30, 2018 @ 7:06am

PARIS: Chinese-owned Mediapro crashed French football’s television rights party in style Tuesday, snapping up the right to broadcast Ligue 1 matches domestically for the period 2020 to 2024 for 1.153 billion euros ($1.33 billion) annually, the French league (LFP) announced.

“It was a successful bidding process, with a significant increase of our TV rights,” said LFP president Nathalie Boy de la Tour, with the existing deal for 2016 to 2020 valued at 726.5 million euros.

Based in Spain but owned by the Chinese private equity fund Orient Hontai, Mediapro snapped up the leading packages put up for auction on Tuesday as longtime French football broadcaster Canal+ was left empty-handed.

“It’s a historic turning point,” said Didier Quillot, the French league’s chief executive.

“We haven’t quite had time to crack open the Champagne, but we’re happy. It proves that our football is getting better, and broadcasters are starting to recognise that too.

“Our football is now more entertaining, we have a seven percent increase in attendances at stadiums and television audiences are up 25 %.”

Sources close to the case said broadcasters who missed out during the tender process could strike sub-licencing deals with the majority rights holders in order to show matches.

Two lower-level packages of the seven total match bundles were not awarded after the reserve price wasn’t met, the LFP said, and will be put up for sale again before the end of the year.

“We launched a tender that some said was complicated, but in reality it was simply more sophisticated and pushed the prices higher during the auction,” added Quillot, in comments on RMC radio.

“We’ve always said that the Ligue 1 was undervalued.”

It is now expected that Mediapro create a channel specifically for French football.

The new deal represents more than a 60 percent increase on the current one and brings the French league in line with its European rivals, ahead of both Spain and Italy but slightly behind Germany.

The English Premier League remains well ahead of the competition with its existing deal worth 2.3 billion euros per season for the 2016-19 cycle. -- AFP

https://www.nst.com.my/sports/footb...grab-french-football-tv-rights-mega-1-billion


Ligue 1 will be the third championship in the world un terms of revenue.

 

[El Flaco]

Can you provide a link?

 

[Jair Ventura]

The French Professional Football League (LFP) awarded the Ligue 1 TV rights for the '20-24 period to Mediapro and beIN Sports, which will replace Canal+, according to Dimitri Ranchou of MEDIA SPORTIF. Starting in '20, Ligue 1 rights will be worth €1.15B ($1.33B) per season, compared to €726.5M ($837.7M) now. This is a 60% increase from the current contract, with lots 5 and 7 yet to be awarded and lot 6 being free. The LFP will pocket €4.6B ($5.3B) over the course of the contract. Mediapro "landed a big blow in the French market" by getting eight out of 10 weekly Ligue 1 matches starting in '20. The Spanish media company won lots 1, 2 and 4. The LFP announced Mediapro is considering "creating a sports channel to broadcast its new acquisition." BeIN Sports' coverage of Ligue 1 will "significantly drop" in '20. It was awarded lot 3 and will show only two Ligue 1 matches per weekend. The channel will also have a magazine on Saturdays that will have access to footage of the first two matches of the weekend broadcast by Mediapro. Pay-TV channel Canal+ has been the official broadcaster of the competition since '84, but "will not show a single Ligue 1 match" under the new contract (MEDIA SPORTIF, 5/29).

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Global/Issues/2018/05/30/Media/Ligue-1-Mediapro-BeIN-Sports.aspx

 

[Catta]

QSG-Monaco 4-0 in the supercup
The league really is on the rise since France won the WC, last season QSG beat Monaco 7-1, the opposition is progressing.