France

Football
Business

City Football Group (CFG), parent company of English Premier League champion Manchester City, is reportedly looking to add French Ligue 2 outfit AS Nancy Lorraine to its portfolio of clubs
Football
Finance & Law

Uefa has referred Olympic Marseille to the Adjudicatory Chamber of its Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) over a further potential breach of its Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations
Sponsorship & Marketing

France-based sportswear firm Le Coq Sportif has been awarded various kit supply rights at the 2024 summer Olympics in Paris, plus the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing, in a wide-ranging deal with the Paris…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Ligue 1 club AS Monaco has signed a fan marketing and shorts branding deal with new social media and fan engagement platform Iqoniq
Rugby Union
Events

The Six Nations rugby union clash between Italy and England in Rome on March 14 has been postponed until later this year as the country continues to attempt to stem the tide of its coronavirus outbreak
Multi-sport
Events

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee has approved the Paris 2024 organising committee’s plans for a new urban sports arena near the Champs-Elysées and also given the green light fo…
Football
Media

German football’s DFB Pokal will return to French television this week after rights were acquired by L’Équipe, the Groupe Amaury-owned free-to-air digital terrestrial channel.
Rugby Union
Media

Six Nations Rugby, organising body of the annual national team tournament, has refused to rule out the possibility that live rights to the championship could go behind a paywall against the backdrop of…
Tennis
Events

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has welcomed a decision by a French Court to uphold a ruling that it was illegal for the secondary ticketing company Viagogo to list tickets for the French Open grand…
Tennis
Host Broadcast & Production

HBS, the Infront-owned sports broadcast production company, has been appointed by the French Tennis Federation (FFT) as its host broadcaster for the flagship French Open from 2021 to 2023
Industry Moves

The French Football League (LFP) chief executive, Didier Quillot, has been elected president of the country's sport industry anti-piracy body, the Association for the Protection of Sports Programmes (APPS)
Football
Industry Moves

Mediapro, the production and agency group heavily involved in sports broadcasting, is thought to be close to appointing French football and broadcast executive Jean-Michel Roussier as its deputy director…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Online hotel booking platform Hotels.com has signed a two-and-a-half-year ‘Official Accommodation Partner’ deal with Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.
Baseball
Other

A raft of sports events in Korea have been cancelled or put under threat after a spike in coronavirus cases in the country
Handball
Media

French free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1 has built on its handball coverage by acquiring rights to the Olympic qualifying tournament in which the national team will compete
Rugby Union
Marketing

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has struck a four-year deal with IMG for the agency to become its exclusive global licensing representative
Football
Media

Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Olympique Lyonnais, has reportedly raised the prospect of the French Football League (LFP) suing pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group in an escalation of the…
Football
Industry Moves

French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco has announced the appointments of Markus Breglec and Tyson Henly as chief marketing officer and chief commercial officer, respectively