France’s Ligue1+ football streaming service, owned by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), has reached an agreement with FIFA to broadcast all matches from the 2026 World Cup this summer in a deal valued at €20 million. LFP has already signed a contract with the international federation. If the contract is approved by the FIFA […]
France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the organising body that oversees the country’s professional football divisions, has won another legal battle against beIN Media Group, which sees the MENA broadcaster ordered to pay €14.13 million to the body by a Paris Commercial Court. That fee represents a sum that beIN had been withholding from the […]
EasyTools, a specialist in versatile software video infrastructure solutions, has announced that its software solution powers the infrastructure used to distribute Ligue 1 feeds to operators since August. The EasyTools platform includes features for receiving, recording, encoding, processing, distributing, and monitoring, enabling the simultaneous management of up to nine matches. It also supports the playout […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]