Throughout an LFP assembly, Ligue 1’s presidents agreed to chop quick DAZN’s Ligue 1 broadcasting rights deal, understands.
DAZN signed the rights to broadcast Ligue 1 in the summertime. The deal, signed simply earlier than the start of the season, is price €400m per 12 months. It allowed the British broacaster to broadcast eight video games in each gameweek with the opposite sport going to BeIn Sports activities. Nevertheless, only one 12 months into the five-year contract, the 2 events are set to half methods.
L’Équipe understands that in a gathering of Ligue 1’s presidents, the choice was taken to interrupt the contract upon the conclusion of the present Ligue 1 marketing campaign. That call has been ratified by the administration council and an settlement should now be discovered with DAZN.
The broadcaster is scheduled to make two additional funds price a mixed €140m. Nevertheless, sad with the LFP’s dealing with of the deal, DAZN themselves are demanding €573m in damages. LFP are themselves demanding between €110-125m in compensation. DAZN have refused this for now and there’ll now be a mediation to interrupt the deadlock.
| Luke Entwistle
