The amount spent by the chain for these rights is not known for the time being.
Le Monde with AFP
TF1 acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights of the French football team until 2028, the channel announced on Friday July 22. TF1, Codetentor with M6 of the rights to broadcast the games of the Blues at the next Nations League, as well as those of the broadcast of Euro 2024, will therefore broadcast the matches of the French team in the League of Nations after 2024 : “Friendly matches, qualifying matches at Euro 2024, the 2026 World Cup and Euro 2028,” she said in a press release.
The group, ownership of Bouygues, also announced that it had concluded an agreement with the French Football Federation (FFF) “giving access to unpublished images of the team in the desire to produce series and documentaries around the Blues “.
” Clear “and” on all channels “
“It has never been so important to offer the French public the clear accessibility of the biggest sporting events with the widest possible coverage and on all channels,” said Gilles Pélisson, CEO of the group TF1, quoted in the press release, in reference to the latest acquisitions of dissemination rights.
At the end of June, the encrypted channel Canal+ announced that it had won all the diffusion rights of the Champions League (C1), the Europa League (C3) and the Europa Conference League (C4) until 2027. ” Mbappé, Ronaldo, Messi, Benzema, de Bruyne, Lewandowsky, Salah, Mané, Neymar … The biggest players in the world, the most beautiful European shocks and the best French players and clubs: only on Canal+ “, rejoiced the channel in a press release released shortly after.
mid-June, the American site Amazon won, facing the encrypted channel, the status of new partner of the French Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 championship, by obtaining, from next season for three years, Eight of the ten games per day of Ligue 1, including the ten best posters and the Sunday evening meeting for the 2021-2024 seasons. These matches will therefore not spend on television on a free channel: they will be available against a premium subscription to Prime Video, from the Internet or a box.
uncertainty
The announcement of TF1 puts in any case at a period of uncertainty for the Blues and the FFF which, despite the world title conquered in 2018 and planetary renowned players like Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema, struggled to seduce diffusers.
The call for tenders for the matches of the period 2022-2028 thus remained unsuccessful last fall. At the end of March, at the end of the contract signed in 2018 which associated TF1 and M6 as codiffusers of the Blues, the candidates were few and their financial proposals disappointing. The amount spent by TF1 for the acquisition of these rights is not known for the time being.