The agreement clears the way to found your own transmitter through the league.
Streaming providers DAZN and the Association of the French Football League (LFP) have settled their months. The LFP shared this on Friday after a meeting of the board of directors without further details. The agreement paves the way for the founding of its own transmitter by the LFP, which wants to test the market for this, according to media reports from next season.
As the AFP news agency reports, the agreement provides for the payment of the last two installments of a total of 140 million euros, which the British company owes for this season. In addition, it contains the termination of the procedure that DAZN had strained in front of the Paris Commercial Court.
The streaming platform, which has acquired the transfer rights at Ligue 1 to 2029 for 400 million euros, demanded 573 million euros in compensation for “observed failures” and alleged “misleading of the market”. This requirement is now off the table. The existing contract between the two parties continues for the time being.
“DAZN is happy about the constructive exchange and the signing of the agreement. We are now taking up the work again: A new phase of discussions with the LFP begins,” said the British platform on AFP request.
A few days ago, DAZN signaled the willingness to give up the transfer rights for the eight games per match day and to participate in the new broadcaster, which belongs 100 percent of the Ligue 1, with an investment of 100 million euros. The company, which in France with only around 650,000 instead of the hoped -for 1.5 million subscriptions, was behind the expectations, and the LFP each have a clause for the contract termination in December 2025.