Ligue 1 TV rights: "DAZN will be participating in the tender & wants to be major player" (S. Segev)

"DAZN will be participating in the tender (for Ligue 1 Uber Eats TV rights from the 2024-25 season) and wants to be a major broadcaster of Ligue 1, a major player. France is a great footballing nation, and we see it as a key market with the ambition of offering the best experience to fans. In the long term, DAZN can reduce the fragmentation of sports rights in France," said Shay Segev, CEO of the OTT sports platform, to the French sports daily L'Équipe on 26/08/2023.

The call for tenders for Ligue 1 broadcasting rights from the 2024-25 season will be launched by the Ligue de Football Professionnel on 12/09/2023. DAZN also entered into a partnership with Canal+ on 12/08/2023. The French pay-TV and free-TV group has launched a new OTT channel "Canal+ Ligue 1" on DAZN, which can also be accessed from the myCanal platform and on channel 19 of Canal+ set-top boxes via the Sport+, Canal+ Sport, Friends & Family, Intégrale and Intégrale+ packages.

"The agreement with Canal+ was an opportunity, and we've struck a deal with the biggest sports distributor in France. DAZN is now available on…