France

Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Lagardère Sports agency has brokered a deal between France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and Duracell for the battery manufacturer to sponsor the Supersevens, a new professional rugby sevens ch…
Football
Media

The French Professional Football League (LFP) has launched websites to showcase content from Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 that include a new feature called MyLigue. The two sites — www.ligue1conforama.f
Rugby Union
Industry Moves

France's Ligue Nationale de Rugby has begun a search for head of broadcast rights and content
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

French football champion Paris Saint-Germain has signed a new cryptocurrency partner, Poland-based CoinCasso, which becomes an official partner of the club in all territories outside France
Motorsport
Events

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has announced that the French city of Marseille, and the nearby Circuit Paul Ricard, will stage the second edition of its Motorsport Games from October 23-25
Rugby Union
Sponsorship & Marketing

PPA Business School has been announced as an official supplier of the Supersevens, a new professional rugby sevens championship in France, in a deal brokered by the Lagardère Sports agency.
Industry Moves

Laurent Eichinger, the chief executive of RMC Sport, is leaving his position less than 12 months after joining the Altice-owned subscription broadcaster
Rugby Union
Events

Groupe Couleur has been appointed as exclusive global rights holder for the official travel programme of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, part of what local organisers in France claim will be an “innovative a…
Basketball
Events

The National Basketball Association's annual regular-season fixture in Europe will return to Paris in 2021, NBA commissioner Adam Silver has revealed
Football
Governance

The French Boxing Federation (FFB) has been chosen to oversee mixed martial arts as the sport becomes officially recognised in France
Motorsport
Media

Vivendi-owned pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has retained rights to motor racing’s Formula 1 for another two seasons, it has been reported.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain and online betting operator Unibet have expanded the terms of their sponsorship agreement and extended the duration until the end of the 2022-23 season
Basketball
Events

After a nine-year stint at London's O2 Arena, the NBA is taking its annual European regular-season game to the French capital, in a match-up between the Hornets and Bucks. Going forward, the event will be taken around the continent, moving from city to city on a regular basis. Bob Williams reports.
Road Cycling
Sponsorship & Marketing

French national lottery operator Française des Jeux and insurance firm Groupama have extended their title sponsorship of the men’s UCI World Cycling team Groupama-FDJ.
Tennis
Media

A charity tennis match between stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will be shown in France by L'Équipe, the free-to-air digital terrestrial broadcaster.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Indian specialist tyre company BKT will pay the Ligue de Football Professionnel between €2m ($2.2m) and €2.5m
Finance & Law

Spanish league champion FC Barcelona has topped the Deloitte Football Money League for the 2018-19 season, with total revenues of €840.8m (£741.1m/$935.9m
Athletics
Governance

The Paris trial of Lamine Diack, former president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), athletics’ world governing body, and fellow co-defendants in the case connected to t…