While the Club World Cup is in full swing, Ligue 1 will resume the weekend of August 15-16-17 with in particular the Nantes/PSG match. The LFP confirmed Tuesday the launch of its TV and Digital platform entirely dedicated to Ligue 1. Price, number of matches, distribution, we explain how to follow PSG in Ligue 1 next season.
After a single season as a Ligue 1 broadcaster, Dazn passes his hand. The British platform, which is currently broadcasting the Club World Cup free of charge, has indeed negotiated with the LFP its release after setting its last trafficking by 70 million euros. Dazn will still have to pay the LFP € 85 million as compensation for having ended his contract prematurely.
And now ? In the pipes since last year, the project to launch a 100% Ligue 1 channel managed and managed by LFP Media will be clear. In a press release released on Tuesday evening, the LFP confirmed the creation of a TV and Digital platform entirely dedicated to Ligue 1 McDonald's. A platform that will be managed by the LFP, but published by an external company, i.e. 21 production (subsidiary of the group L'Equipe), or Mediawan, led by Pierre-Antoine Capton, a close to Vincent Labrune.
How many matches will be broadcast on the LFP Ligue 1 channel?
On the 9 Ligue 1 matches per day, 8 will be broadcast live on this new LFP channelincluding the 10 largest posters of the season. Like last season, Bein Sports will keep his match on Saturday at 5 p.m. (which will also be available in delayed on the LFP platform). To be sure to see all the PSG matches in the championship next season, you will have to have this PLUS PLUS LFP channel … During the 2024/2025 season, PSG had been broadcast 26 times by Dazn in Ligue 1 and 8 times by BeIN Sports.
What price to follow PSG in Ligue 1?
The Subscription alone in Bein Sports costs 15 euros per month without commitment, but you can also be subscribed to BeIN Sports via the Canal+ Sport Pack (from 34.99 euros per month with commitment) which also allows you to have Eurosport and channels of Canal+ to have access to all European cuts and therefore all PSG matches in Champions League.
Regarding the price of the future LFP Ligue 1 channel, It will be 14.99 euros per month with commitment (probably a year) and 20 euros per month without commitment (according to the Parisian). In an interview with the Team, Nicolas de Tavernost (Managing Director of LFP Media) confirms this Wednesday that there will also be an offer for less than 10 euros for those under 26, available on tablet and mobile, “But maybe not from the start for technical reasons”.
You will understand, to watch all PSG matches legally in Ligue 1 next season, you will have to pay at least 30 euros per month. Or 50 euros per month to have Ligue 1 and the Champions League.
Who will distribute this new Ligue 1 channel?
It was the big issue of the past few weeks for the LFP. Despite recruited discussions, the LFP has not reached an agreement with Canal+, which will not distribute this new 100% Ligue 1 channel. For the moment, the LFP has not revealed who will be the distributors of its channel, but the latter will be normally accessible via the majority of Internet access providers (Orange, SFR, Bouygues, Free …), the connected TVs, the game consoles, probably From the Ligue 1 platform via a computer or a smartphone.
What will this LFP Ligue 1 channel offer?
In addition to 8 live matches per day, this new platform will offer a big magazine in clear on Sunday evening. The LFP also promises to be more immersive than Dazn and having obtained the agreement of all clubs to offer more inside content. Regarding the casting of the chain, we simply know for the moment that Xavier Domergue (who comments the Blues on M6) will be there.
“There will be others of the” Domergue quality “that will be announced on July 10, said Tavernost in the team. The cast is being finalized. Many people have made proposals to us, but we could not sign anything as long as we didn't know where we were going exactly ”. And to those who were disappointed by what Dazn proposed at the editorial level, the director general of LFP Media promises to “Put the means to have a quality product. We wish efficient experts and presenters. The stake is important. The clubs are behind us and we will rely a lot on them. »»
Doing without a classic broadcaster to launch your own chain is nonetheless a default solution for the League and a great financial risk for clubs, which have historically always counted on the amount of domestic TV rights to finance their season. At the start of the 2025/2026 season and waiting for the money of the first subscribers of this new LFP Caisses, LEGUE 1 clubs were unable to budget for the coming season for the coming season and will have to be satisfied with the 78.5 million euros paid by BeIN Sports, as well as the 85 million Dazn compensation.
PSG impacted, but financially solid
PSG will also be impacted, but its turnover does not depend, fortunately, only domestic TV rights of the Ligue 1. As a European club, the club also affects a good part of the international TV rights of the LFP and its participation in the Champions League as well as in the World Cup of clubs this summer will allow it to compensate for this shortfall. The PSG brand is strong and sponsorship, merchandising and its ticket office allows it to be one of the most solid European clubs financially.
“The economic assessment is good. Our turnover continued to progress. We had set a turnover target around 800 million euros for the 2024-2025 season. Thanks to our victory in the Champions League, we will greatly exceed this forecast and will break our record for the sixth time in a row ”recently confided Victoriano Melero, the director general of PSG, in Les Echos. All Ligue 1 clubs, including PSG, have, however, interest in this LFP chain project to work.
