France

Football
Governance

The French Football League (LFP) has formed three working groups to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, stating it is the “priority objective” to end the 2019-20 domestic season by June 30, or July 15 at the…
Media

French-pay television broadcaster Canal Plus has been forced to backtrack on its initiative to allow its premium channels to be broadcast free of charge to customers of French telecoms operators until…
Motorsport
Media

The International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Motocross World Championship (MXGP) has renewed a rights agreement in France with motorsport-focused channel Automoto La Chaîne.
Football
Events

Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation (FFF), has expressed his desire for the Ligue 1 season to run until at least July 15 to ensure all domestic leagues in Europe are completed.
Football
Media

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) has given French pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and beIN Sports access to a host of archive content for free following the postponement of 2019-20 Ligue…
Motorsport
Events

The annual 24 Hours of Le Mans motor racing event has been delayed from its regularly scheduled dates of June 13-14 until September 19-20 as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak
Football
Finance & Law

The 20 clubs that make up Ligue 1, the top division of French club football, have reportedly agreed on a revenue distribution system for the competition’s next broadcast rights cycle.
Cycling
Events

Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Flanders have become the latest of the five ‘Monuments’ of road cycling to be postponed. T
Tennis
Events

The French Open tennis grand slam has been moved back to September and October due to the global Covid-19 pandemic
Horse Racing
Events

The Jockey Club has announced that the 2020 Grand National Festival has been cancelled, with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) also suspending all horse racing from tomorrow (Wednesday) onwards
Football
Media

Florent Houzot, director of programming at pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France has criticised football’s French Professional League (LFP) for a lack of warning over the move to suspend the c…
Football
Finance & Law

The loss of matchday revenues at French Ligue 1 clubs between now and the end of the season would total between €20m ($21.8
Football
Events

Uefa has announced the postponement of all European club football fixtures scheduled for next week due to the spread of the coronavirus
Handball
Sponsorship & Marketing

Automotive inspection companies Auto Sécurité and Sécuritest have agreed a new sponsorship deal with the Ligue Nationale de Handball, governing body of French club handball.
Football
Finance & Law

The French Professional League (LFP), the governing body for the top two tiers of football in France, has reported that its clubs generated record revenues of almost €3bn ($3.3bn) in the 2018-19 season.
Cycling
Events

David Lappartient, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), has said that enforced cancellations of the Giro d’Italia or the Tour de France due to the coronavirus outbreak would be a “disaster” for t…
Football
Events

The French government has announced a decree which will ban all public gatherings of over 1,000 people until April 15 in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the country
Motorsport
Media

RMC, the commercial radio station in France, has opted against a renewal of its radio rights to motor racing’s Formula 1.