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Mediation between Dazn and the Professional Football League (LFP) ends this Tuesday, April 15. As reported by the team, there are currently four scenarios (two proposals on each side) to get out of the dead end. But the positions are always very distant.
French football could live a very agitated new week. This Tuesday, April 15, marks the end of mediation in the financial dispute on TV rights in Ligue 1 between Dazn and the Professional Football League (LFP). A mediator mandated by the Paris Commercial Court has been trying to find common ground between the two parties for more than a month. Its mission was initially supposed to end on March 31.
Currently, the situation is still in an impasse. The mediator warned that he would not go beyond Tuesday, April 15. There are therefore two possible outcomes: either an agreement is reached in the last hours, or the dispute is settled before the courts. For the first option, Dazn and the LFP each imagined two scenarios. as reported by The team.
• Dazn's two proposals
Eight -game broadcaster on nine live each day for an annual amount of around 400 million euros, Dazn offers two scenarios:
- An agreement for a withdrawal at the end of this 2024-2025 season with a payment of the last two drafts, but without compensation for this early break.
or
- The continuation of the collaboration with the LFP to broadcast Ligue 1 for four years with a renegotiation of the terms of the contract. This scenario provides for the introduction on the one hand variable in the contract.
Still according to the Team, Dazn also hypothesizes the poster of Ligue 1 owned by BeIN Sports in order to broadcast all of the matches. Last July, BeIN Sports paid 78.5 million annual TV rights (+ 20 million euros in sponsorship) to recover this Ligue 1 match.
• The two LFP proposals
The league has also been upholstery:
- The end of the contract with Dazn after this 2024-2025 season and compensation for the following financial year (with an amount below the 375 million that the broadcaster should have settled if he had continued in 2025-2026).
or
- The continuation of the collaboration for two seasons by repelling the exit clause by one year. Currently, a clause provides for the possibility of putting an end to the partnership in December 2025 if the threshold of the 1.5 million subscribers is not reached. This clause could therefore be activated in December 2026. According to the Team, the LFP would accept, in this case, a slight decrease in the rights paid by Dazn.
As it stands, the two -part positions are still very distant. As the time runs, Dazn and the LFP remain camped on their positions. If no agreement is reached, the broadcaster may not pay the last two deadlines planned for this end of the season (end of April and late June). In such a situation, the League will have to play the financial guarantees given by the Dazn parent company (Access Industries) when the contract is signed.
As a reminder, the British platform, which broadcasts Ligue 1 for an annual amount of around 400 million euros, claims the LFP 573 million euros for “observed failure” and “deception on the goods”. The LFP Commercial Company, LFP Media, awaits the likely arrival, as general manager, of Nicolas de Tavernostformer president of the M6 group.
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