France

Rugby League
Events

France has pulled out of hosting the Rugby League World Cup in 2025, saying it cannot guarantee the financial viability of the tournament
Multiple Sports
Media

French media group L'Équipe has acquired rights to the this year's Fifa Under-20 World Cup and World Rugby Under-20 Championship in separate deals with football and rugby union’s world governing bodies.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

France's Professional Football League (LFP) has engaged the rEvolution agency to aid its efforts to expand Ligue 1’s presence in the US market.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has announced a two-year extension of the club's sponsorship agreement with country tourism board Visit Rwanda
Baseball
Events

Major League Baseball is reportedly planning on staging regular-season games in South Korea for the first time in 2024, with Paris also being lined up to host fixtures the following year
Football
Finance & Law

American investor John Textor has replaced Jean-Michel Aulas as president of French Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and will also act as interim chief executive until a permanent appointment is made
Football
Media

The French Football Federation (FFF) today (Wednesday) postponed until May 12 the deadline for bids for domestic broadcast rights to the matches of the French’s women’s national team and France’s top-t…
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus recorded the highest English Premier League audience in France in more than 12 years for last week’s title showdown between Manchester City and Arsenal.
Rugby Union
Governance

Bernard Lapasset, the former chairman of World Rugby, who played an integral role in getting rugby sevens onto the Olympic Games sports programme, has died at the age of 75
Football
Media

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has once again called on broadcasters in the ‘big five’ European markets to increase their offers for media rights to the 2023 Women’s World Cup, describing their curre…
Football
Stadia

French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain has submitted a preliminary application to take over the lease of Stade de France but says its priority remains to stay playing at Parc des Princes stadium
Multi-sport
Sponsorship & Marketing

French state-owned railway company SNCF has signed as an ‘Official Supporter’ of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the third tier of the domestic sponsorship programme.
Football
Industry Moves

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has made Jérôme Dumois of players’ body the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionels (UNFP) the latest hire to its new LFP Media division. T
Football
Finance & Law

Paris Saint-Germain registered record losses and its highest-ever wage bill for the 2021-22 season as French Ligue 1 and 2 clubs continued to operate with high levels of debt
Triathlon
Media

L'Équipe, a subsidiary of the Amaury Group, has acquired the broadcast rights in France to show leading Ironman races this year.
Football
Media

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has recruited Martin Aurenche from beIN Media Group to lead its media rights activities ahead of domestic and international rights sales from 2024-25 onwards.
Football
Industry Moves

Thibaut Chatelard, the long-serving chief marketing and revenue officer at France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), has taken up a new role at Ligue 1 football club AS Monaco.
Football
Governance

Jean-François Vilotte, former director general of the French Tennis Federation, is set to be appointed as the new general manager of the French Football Federation, replacing Florence Hardouin who was …