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France: Ligue1+ exceeds 1m subs

At a meeting of the board of directors of the LFP, Nicolas de Tavernost, MD of LFP Media, announced its in-house Ligue 1+ OTT platform has surpassed 1 million subscribers just one month into the new football season. LFP initially indicated that it was targeting 1 million subscribers by the end of the season. As […]

September 17, 2025

Report: 1.6m French consumers intend to subscribe to Ligue 1+

Following the news that LFP Media’s Ligue 1+ streaming platform surpassed 600,000 subscribers in the first week of the 2025/26 football season, a report by NPA Conseil and Harris Interactive predicts that it will significantly, and quickly, exceed the target of at least 1 million subscribers by the end of the season. After polling 3,749 […]

September 1, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Canal+ threatens Ligue 1+ legal action

With Ligue 1+ already topping 600k subs in its first week, French pay-TV group Canal+ has threatened the commercial arm of French Professional Football League, LFP Media, with legal action unless it is authorised to distribute the Ligue 1+ service, according to French sports daily L’Équipe. Canal+ group president, Maxime Saada wrote to LFP Media […]

August 22, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Ligue 1+ surpasses 600k subs in first week

The new Ligue 1+ streaming platform surpassed 600,000 subscribers in France following the first weekend of the French football season which kicked off on August 15th. Nicolas de Tavernost, CEO of the LFP Media division, told French daily L’Equipe that its in-house streaming service attracted as many subscribers in a single matchday as sports streaming […]

August 20, 2025

France: Fubo’s Molotov secures Ligue 1+ carriage

FuboTV has announced that Molotov, its subsidiary in France, has entered into a non-exclusive carriage agreement with Ligue 1 for the 2025/2026 season. Molotov, France’s leading live TV streaming platform, has partnered with Ligue 1+, the new official broadcast service for Ligue 1. Customers who subscribe to Ligue 1+ on Molotov will be able to […]

August 19, 2025

France: Ligue 1+ on DAZN, Orange and more

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announced a new partnership with the French Professional Football League (LFP) for the distribution of Ligue 1+, the new channel from the LFP that will broadcast Ligue 1 McDonald’s. Thanks to this partnership, DAZN subscribers in France can access Ligue 1 McDonald’s until August 15th 2029. French operators Orange, […]

July 11, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Mediawan Sport to produce Ligue 1 platform

Following a consultation initiated by LFP Media on the editorial production of France’s new Ligue 1 platform, LFP Media has announced that it has awarded the contract to Mediawan Sport, a subsidiary of Mediawan. The choice of all four lots – Editorial Personnel Management; Editorial Production of the Matches; Editorial Production of Multiplex; Editorial Production […]

July 8, 2025

LFP confirms in-house Ligue 1 streaming platform

Following a July 1st meeting, the Presidents of League 1 clubs, the LFP Media Supervisory Committee and the LFP Board of Directors officially announced their long rumoured, strategic project: the creation of a TV and digital platform entirely dedicated to the McDonald’s League 1, managed and led by LFP Media. The platform will become the […]

July 2, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Canal+ won’t carry Ligue 1 streamer

Canal+ will not distribute Ligue 1’s new in-house direct-to-consumer service after turning down a proposed deal, Canal+ President Maxime Saada has confirmed in an interview with French daily L’Équipe.  France’s top-flight football league is prepping to stream games on its own streaming service in the new season after the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) prematurely ended […]

July 1, 2025

France: FFF seeks football rights market reform

Philippe Diallo, president of French Football’s governing body Fédération Française de Football (FFF) has proposed a complete overhaul of the crisis-hit sector governance to create a club-led company, that would be responsible for commercial matters and would replace the current French football league Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP). “We’re going to move from a league […]

May 13, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris