Top 14

Rugby Union
Governance

René Bouscatel, the former president of French Top 14 club Stade Toulousain, has been elected president of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the rugby union body that operates the country’s Top …
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has held on to one of its flagship properties in France by retaining rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 from 2023-24 to 2026-27 in a deal worth an average of €…
Rugby Union
Media

The invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 is reported to have attracted bids from broadcasters including incumbent rights-holder Canal Plus and free-to-air d…
Rugby Union
Media

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for a head of broadcast rights and content.
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is thought to be confident of extending existing deals in France for Formula One motor racing and Top 14 rugby union
Rugby Union
Media

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has introduced more stringent financial guarantee measures and altered the payment schedule in its recently-launched domestic rights tender in the wake of the c…
Rugby Union
Media

The executive board of France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has approved the issuing of a domestic broadcast rights auction for the top-tier Top 14 in a sales process launched in the same week as t…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French DIY chain Brico Dépôt has become a sponsor of French rugby union’s Top 14 in a deal that will begin with this weekend’s round of matches. T
Rugby Union
Events

Backers of a new world championship for leading club rugby union teams are increasingly optimistic the first edition can be launched in 2022, according to UK newspaper The Telegraph
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

France's National Rugby League (LNR) is the latest French sports rights-holder to sign up supermarket chain Intermarché to a sponsorship deal.
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Swiss health start-up Be.care has unveiled a two-year performance and health sponsorship with the French rugby club Racing 92. As the central part of the deal, Racing 92 will use Be
Rugby Union
Media

Canal Plus will show the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and Brive on its C8 free-to-air channel
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

The Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the organising body for French rugby’s union’s Top 14 and Pro D2, is open to continuing discussions over a private equity deal worth €200m ($233.4m) b
Football
Events

French prime minister Jean Castex has announced the French government will maintain a 5,000-spectator limit in sports stadiums until October 30 at the earliest
Rugby League
Sponsorship & Marketing

The French National Rugby League (LNR) has signed up household appliance brand Schneider as a sponsor of its premier competition, the Top 14
Cricket
Events

Formula One will not cancel a race this season even if a driver tests positive for Covid-19, series chief executive Chase Carey has said - BBC
Rugby Union
Media

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has reached an agreement over outstanding broadcast rights payments with Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), organiser of French rugby union’s Top 14 and Pro D…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French rugby union club Sporting Union Agenais (SUA) is set to lose the sponsorship of French discount chain Gifi at the end of the 2020 season