France

Rugby Union
Events

European Professional Club Rugby has again removed its Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals from Marseille amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in France
Rugby League
Events

Troy Grant has been appointed as the new chairman of International Rugby League and has targeted France as the host of the 2025 edition of the sport’s World Cup.
Football
Media

The Mediapro agency and production group has paid the second part of its severance agreement with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) following the withdrawal from its broadcast rights deal last y…
Rugby Union
Media

An average audience of 7.6 million viewers watched the final match of this year’s Six Nations tournament between France and Scotland on French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions.
Football
Media

Staff at the now-defunct French pay-television broadcaster Téléfoot have expressed frustration with the redundancy proposals presented by the service’s owner, Spanish agency and production group Mediapro.
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

Mixed martial arts promotion Xtreme Fighting Championships has struck its first-ever media-rights deal in France with pay-television broadcaster Fight Nation, beginning this weekend with XFC: Young Guns…
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
Sponsorship & Marketing

E-commerce brand AliExpress has taken up the shirt sleeve rights at French Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais for the rest of the 2020-21 season
Rugby Union
Media

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions benefitted from late drama during the France versus Wales Six Nations match on Saturday evening, attracting a peak audience of just over 7 million v…
Football
Media

The wish of France’s Professional Football League (LFP) to establish a commercial subsidiary has moved a step closer after the National Assembly voted in favour of sports bodies creating such entities.
Football
Media

Matches from the Scottish Premiership will be streamed in seven international markets by OneFootball in a deal between the football-based media platform and the Infront agency
Cycling
Sponsorship & Marketing

The French Cycling Federation (FFC) has renewed its equipment supplier contract with the Italian cycling apparel brand ALÉ until 2024.
Rugby League
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has agreed a deal with rights-holder Sky to resume its French coverage of the Super League, the top tier of rugby league in the UK
Rugby Union
Media

England’s 23-20 victory over France in rugby union’s Six Nations on Saturday was watched by a peak audience of 8.2 million viewers on French public-service broadcaster France 2.
Football
Industry Moves

Noël Le Graët has retained the presidency of the French Football Federation (FFF) after seeing off the claims of rival candidates including former French Football League (LFP) president Frédéric Thiriez.
Media

A French court has ruled that five men who last year were found guilty of running an operation pirating the content of sports broadcasters must pay over €7m ($8.3m) in damages.
Football
Finance & Law

Paris’ commercial court has ruled in favour of France’s Professional Football League (LFP) in a case brought against it by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over a recent broadcast rights auction.
Boxing
Media

RMC Sport, the French subscription broadcaster owned by telco Altice, has acquired exclusive rights to Premier Boxing Champions fights. The deal covers at least 2021