FFF: texts voted for by the federal assembly on 18/06/2022 concerning the LFP

• Creation of a commercial company,
• Statutes of the commercial company,
• Reform of the governance of the LFP.
These are the themes of the three texts (documents available to download) adopted by the FFF federal assembly held in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes, FRA) on Saturday 18/06/2022 and which concern the links between the French Football Federation and the Ligue de Football Professionnel and more precisely the commercial company - subsidiary of the LFP - in the process of being established, as well as the governance of the French league.

The project to create an LFP commercial company was approved by the LFP general assembly on 01/04/2022. The federal assembly in turn gave its authorisation, including its creation within the framework of the FFF-LFP agreement and financial protocol (for a period of five seasons from 01/07/2022), according to the Federation.

"The main purpose of this company is to market and manage the commercial rights of sporting events and competitions (national, international and digital TV rights in particular, excluding sports betting) organised by the LFP. Its…