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A few hours before the eyes turn to Birmingham, where PSG faces Aston Villa in the quarter-final return of the Champions League, another part, even more important for the future of French football, is played this afternoon on the side of the capital. Mediation in the financial dispute on the TV rights of Ligue 1 between the Dazn broadcaster and the Professional Football League (LFP) ends this Tuesday, with the objective of leaving all these beautiful people from the dead end, without certainty of achieving it.
Several scenarios are on the table (we have summarized them here) but if the two parties did not agree, the conflict could be settled before the courts. According to a source close to the file, a short -term solution carried by Dazn is an agreement for a withdrawal at the end of the current season with “conditions to be defined”.
A league turnover scheduled Tuesday afternoon
In the long term, the platform wishes to continue the partnership with the LFP, but by “completely reviewing the contract” with the exclusivity of the dissemination, an improvement of the product and better access. The idea is therefore to include a very substantial variable part with a contract supposed to end in four years, specifies this same source.
For its part, the LFP would like the association between the two parties to continue for two seasons, pushing the current outing clause by one year. On this subject, a board of directors of the videoconferencing league is scheduled for 4:00 p.m., preceded by a college of clubs in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, a source close to the file told AFP.
For more than a month, a mediator mandated by the Paris Commercial Court has been trying to find common ground between the two parties. His mission (impossible?) Was supposed initially to end on March 31.
A conflict that drags in length
French football continues to evolve in a hot context against a background of increasingly lively tensions Between the LFP and DAZN, holder of the rights of eight of the nine Ligue 1 meetings per day for 400 million euros annually until 2029. The British Sports Streaming Platform claims to court at the LFP 573 million euros “for observed failure” and “deception on goods”.
The platform, which in particular complains of the difficult operating conditions linked to the hacking and the lack of cooperation of certain clubs to enhance the “Ligue 1 product”, finally paid the LFP a part of its deadline of January (35 million euros) which it had initially refused to pay.
This conflict amplifies the concern of the most fragile financial teams and revives the dissensions between club presidents about the League strategy and its president, Vincent Labrune, in the TV rights file.
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