The LFP hopes to win Gros with its new Ligue 1 channel, which will be launched from next season.
The TV rights soap opera is finished. A month and a half of the resumption of the championship, the Professional Football League resolved to launch its own platform, which will be distributed on all operators on the market but not Canal+. Maxime Saada, president of the encrypted chain, was actually withdrawn from the negotiating table. But “The door will always be open”Dixit Nicolas de Tavernost, recently appointed Managing Director of LFP Medias.
The site for the LFP is now to improve the Ligue 1 product in order to make it desirable again in a year or two. If the mission promises to be complex, that does not prevent the body from seeing things big. The team was able to consult his business plan for the upcoming four seasons and the revenues hoped for by the League with its new channel, which will be offered at a price of 14.99 euros per month (9.99 euros for those under 26), are important.
Ligue 1 Dream in large
In 2025-2026, the LFP hoped to attract between 1.1 and 1.2 million subscribers on its platform, which will broadcast eight matches out of nine per day, with a check for 151 million euros to the key. To this amount will be added the 78.5 million euros paid by BeIN Sports for the Saturday meeting at 5 p.m., the 85 million euros in compensation that Dazn must pay for its withdrawal, and the 40 million euros of the Qatari channel for Ligue 2.
The following season, the League will recover the rights of the poster of BeIN Sports. It estimates that it can have 1.5 million customers and receive 320 million euros. In 2027-2028, the LFP business plan foresees a ramp-up with 2 million subscribers and 407 million euros in revenue, and a landing planned in 2028-2029 to 2.15 million faithful and some 470 million euros collected. Will Ligue 1 fans be there?
