France

Motorsport
Media

Discovery-owned international sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in the UK and France to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship ahead of the start of its 2020 season this weekend
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

French Ligue 1 side Metz has signed a three-year kit supply deal with Italian sportswear brand Kappa. The new agreement will run from 2020-21 to 2022-23
Football
Finance & Law

American investment firm RedBird Capital Partners is in exclusive talks to acquire an 85-per-cent stake in French soccer club Toulouse FC
Football
Media

Telecoms group Altice has launched a bid to claim back a portion of its annual €350m ($385m) investment in Uefa Champions League and Europa League broadcast rights in France.
Football
Events

The French Football League (LFP) has voted in favour of expanding Ligue 2 from 20 to 22 teams for the 2020-21 season, while Ligue 1 clubs are ready to offer their lower league compatriots an additional…
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

Ed Hepworth has today (Wednesday) been appointed as the new chief financial officer of Six Nations Rugby
Media

French telco Altice has announced plans to gradually exit the pay-television sports rights market as part of a raft of measures designed to protect its audio-visual business
Media

RMC Sport News, the sports news channel of the French division of telco Altice, is to close at the start of next month, it has been reported
Football
Media

French Ligue 1 clubs have agreed to an equal division of the increase in annual media-rights revenue they will receive during the 2020-24 cycle. The top-tier clubs will earn nearly €1.2bn ($1.3
Esports
Esports

Automobile Club de l'Ouest, organiser of the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor racing event, has teamed up with the World Endurance Championship and Motorsport Games, the racing game developer and esports specialist,…
Football
Media

French football’s second-tier, Ligue 2, is reportedly seeking 12.4 per cent of the Ligue de Football Professionnel’s net media-rights revenues during the upcoming 2020-24 cycle.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

French Ligue 1 football club Olympique Lyonnais has downgraded its objective of achieving between €43m ($46.5m) and €46m in sponsorship income next season because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Golf
Media

Discovery, the media group and owner of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport and subscription streaming service Dplay, will broadcast the first live golf since before the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown…
Football
Governance

French Ligue 1 football club Amiens SC is set to take legal action over its relegation from the top-tier competition
Tennis
Events

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has said the 2020 French Open could be played behind closed doors, as organisers consider a further shift in the proposed dates for this year’s edition of the grand s…
Football
Media

PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is not part of the group of French Ligue 1 bosses meeting with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports to discuss a delayed fee instalment for the international rights …
Athletics
Events

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe told the Financial Times that the organisation is in talks with the International Olympic Committee about how much of athletics' planned share of this year's Olympic…
Football
Governance

The general assembly of France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has today adopted a resolution that will enable the league to take out a state-guaranteed loan to make up for the shortfall in broadcast r…