France

Football
Finance & Law

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has reportedly identified a projected total of €192m ($226m) in lost ticketing and hospitality revenues between July and December this year as a result of res…
Tennis
Industry Moves

The French Tennis Federation has named Aymeric Labaste as its head of international business development
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

Bernard Laporte will lead the French Rugby Federation (FFR) into its staging of the 2023 Rugby World Cup after being re-elected as president of the governing body
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Paris 2024 organising committee says it is not planning to revise its sponsorship targets downwards as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The city is still aiming to raise €1.1bn ($1.2
Sponsorship & Marketing

French telco Orange has become a ‘Premium Partner’ and ‘Official Supplier’ to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Ora
Events

The Paris 2024 organising committee has made further revisions to its construction plans, announcing that it will no longer build two temporary venues as part of a suite of cost control measures to ensure…
Media

French broadcast regulator the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has opened talks with Canal Plus over the extension of the pay-television broadcaster’s digital terrestrial licence.
Handball
Events

The French Handball Federation (FFHB) and Swiss Handball Federation (SHV) have announced their intention to bid for the EHF European Men’s Handball Championship in 2026 or 2028.
Football
Fan Engagement

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has plans to host more ‘Ligue 1 Touch’ events at select international locations this season after staging the first iteration of the fan zone event in Shenz…
Football
Fan Engagement

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has widened its tie-up with TikTok, the short-form video platform owned by Chinese technology group ByteDance, to drive further engagement with fans domestically a…
Handball
Media

Digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe has acquired free-to-air rights to a series of French women’s and men’s national-team handball matches. Th
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
Tennis
Sponsorship & Marketing

The French Open tennis tournament expects slightly lower sponsorship revenues as a result of last week’s reduction in the number of fans allowed to attend Paris’ grand slam tournament, but has reasons to …
Ice Hockey
Media

The ‘Sport in France’ free-to-air channel will broadcast the country’s top-tier men’s ice hockey league in the 2020-21 season. Inv
Tennis
Events

The daily attendance cap at this year’s French Open has been further reduced to 1,000 ahead of the start of the grand slam tennis tournament this weekend.
Rugby Union
Finance & Law

Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), has been questioned by police as part of an ongoing inquiry into claims he favoured Top 14 club Montpellier, which is owned by his friend,…
Cycling
Media

Domestic viewing figures for the Tour de France remained strong on both France Télévisions, the public-service broadcaster, and Eurosport, the Discovery-owned sports broadcaster, despite the shifting o…
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

French carmaker Renault has become a second-tier official partner of the French Rugby Federation (FFR) and its national rugby union teams