LFP TV rights (2021-2024): Canal+ announces that it will not be broadcasting Ligue 1

"After the failure of the choice of Mediapro in 2018, Canal+ regrets the decision of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) to retain today the proposal of Amazon to the detriment of that of its historical partners Canal+ and beIN Sports. Canal+ will therefore not broadcast Ligue 1 (2021-2024 cycle)," announced the French pay-TV group on 11/06/2021.

"We currently have Lot 3 with 28 fixtures (28 first choice matches excluding the Top 10) that we have sub-licensed from beIN Sports, but we may find ourselves in the same situation as we were in February (2021). If Amazon had recovered the lots formerly held by Mediapro for an amount that we would have considered discriminatory, we would have sought to return our lot," explained Maxime Saada, president of the board of directors at Canal+ group, on the French radio station RMC, on 09/06/2021.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel awarded the lots formerly held by Mediapro for the broadcasting rights to the Ligue 1 Uber Eats and Ligue 2 BKT, over the 2021-2024 cycle, to the e-commerce group Amazon, following a unanimous vote by the board…