France

Multiple Sports
Media

Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport is reported to have taken legal action against French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus after the latter allegedly withheld carriage-fee payments during…
Cycling
Events

Copenhagen will build on its reputation as a haven for cycling enthusiasts by hosting the Tour de France’s Grand Départ next year.
Basketball
Media

EuroLeague Basketball has struck a late agreement with L’Équipe Group, which will broadcast selected matches in France, a major market where Europe’s top-tier club competition had not managed to secur…
Multiple Sports
Media

US-based sports streaming platform fuboTV has entered into a binding agreement to acquire French live-TV streaming company Molotov SAS and posted record revenues of $156.7m (€135.4
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has renewed its Ligue 1 naming rights agreement with food delivery service Uber Eats until the end of the 2023-24 season.
Handball
Media

The Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH), which operates French men’s professional handball, has renewed its domestic media rights deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports for another three seasons.
Golf
Events

The Open de France will return to the European Tour schedule next year after being absent from the calendar in both 2020 and 2021
Multiple Sports
Sponsorship & Marketing

French hospitality company Accor Group has been unveiled as a national sponsor of the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, while its ResaEvents subsidiary has agreed a deal with the organising…
Football
Media

French telecoms operator Free has been holding talks with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) about adding the ability to show social media clips of goals to its existing contract, it is claimed.
Cycling
Media

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced a deal with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions for coverage of its new Track Champions League competition.
Football
Events

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has abandoned plans to stage a Ligue 1 match between Lyon and Monaco in Shanghai amid ongoing difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in China.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

OL Groupe, which operates French Ligue 1 football club Olympique Lyonnais, has posted a net loss of €107m ($124m) for the 2020-21 financial year, with the results significantly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic a…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

Car manufacturer Peugeot has renewed its shirt sponsorship agreement with French rugby union’s Stade Toulousain until the end of the 2023-24 season in a new deal announced this morning.
Rugby Union
Media

L’Équipe, the French free-to-air digital terrestrial channel and streaming platform, has today (Monday) announced the acquisition of rights to 27 international rugby union test matches between now and th…
Football
Media

Online retail giant Amazon has agreed a deal with TF1 that sees short highlights of French football’s Ligue 1 return to the commercial broadcaster’s long-running Téléfoot programme. T
Para Sport
Media

French broadcasters have been invited to bid for media rights to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games after an invitation to tender process was launched by the Organising Committee
Multiple Sports
Media

Canal Plus, the pay-television broadcaster active in different international markets, has reported a 4.8-per-cent increase in revenues to €4.25bn ($4.95bn) in the first nine months of 2021.
Basketball
Media

Fanseat, the subscription-based sports streaming service owned by the Spring Media agency, has secured rights to broadcast six basketball leagues in the Denmark, France and the UK