The television play in France keeps clubs against strings

It has been coming for months. DAZN stops broadcasting the French Soccer League when the current season pays 100 million euros compensation to disconnect from a signed agreement up to 375 million euros annually (2024/29) last August (2024/29). As declared, the end of the contract is produced by mutual agreement TeamAlthough the French Professional Soccer League (LFP) is effective in the Board of Directors to celebrate this Friday.

One -third of the planned subscribers

The loss of the streaming platform to address the agreement promised to broadcast eight matches every day of ‘Ligue 1’ is the losses between 200 and 250 million euros collected in these eight months. Therefore, at the end of the first season, DAZN uses the output clause that allows you to end the contract if half of the million subscribers in France do not reach the subscribers and now it is half a million. When they signed the agreement in the previous season, the LFP blame the LFP in the absence of initiative in the fight against piracy.

LFP creates its own channel

Dazn issued a statement yesterday through a “sustainable economic sample” of his interest in postponing the scheduled payment on April 30, as well as the adventure of French football. The new principle represents the creation of the channel of the LFP produced by the LFP media and then distributes it to an operator, which may be DAZN, to receive product costs and its trade. This option was dismissed by French clubs in August, but after this rupture, the complex financial situation they dedicated to them as an emergency solution. Like in Spain, all of them have an agreement with the CVC Investment Fund, for which each season retains 13% of their normal income from television rights.

Laliga

In five major European leagues, comparison between contracts for selling television rights across the country gives an idea of ​​the immense crisis of French football. In England, Premier was restored to 1,970 million annually from 2025 to 2029, with a 17% increase compared to the previous deal. From 2022 to 2027 in Spain, Movistar and Dizs sign an agreement to 1,194 million (11%growth) annually. As a result, Bundesli in Germany signed up from next summer to 2029 with Sky and Dazn, by 1,121 million per year, 2%. In Italy, Serie A has already suffered to restore Sky and Dazn until 2029 last summer and has to settle for 967 million, with a setback of 3% in the previous agreement. But the real play reached France, when the LFP had to settle 445 million dazn and beans per year, until then, 21% against the contract. More than half more than in Italy, the other championship and other championship and practically one -third of Spain.

More imbalance every year

Without that 375 million, most French clubs except PSG are on the edge of the financial cliff, Marcel from 95 million, 85 of Leone, Monaco’s 49 or 45 The Rennes 85, 23/24 to quote more than 75% of their total income. In fact, in the case of Louis Enrique’s PSG, Qatar’s financial muscle keeps him safe from the backlash. With 165 million, the Parisian team entered the final classified, 29 times more than Le Hawre, which is only 5.7 million. Ligue 1 demonstrates the most unbalanced economic cast of five major leagues, and there is nothing but translation to the finance of the championship’s inequality, the odds of the championship that the PSG conquered when there are six days to play this season. And for what it appears, those differences will be further expanded next season.