The name from 4 leaders of Ligue 1 golf equipment for “an in-depth reform of the governance of French professional football” | EUROtoday

Lhe financial system of French skilled soccer goes via a deep disaster. The defeat of the Ligue 1+ channel, the LFP Media platform [la filiale commerciale de la Ligue de football professionnel (LFP)]for acquiring paid broadcasting rights from the International Football Federation (FIFA) for the matches of the following World Cup – which can happen from June 11 to July 19, 2026, organized collectively by the United States, Canada and Mexico – constitutes an extra manifestation. The Ligue 1 golf equipment, unanimously minus one vote, have been in favor of buying these rights, which ought to permit their channel to strengthen its content material providing.

FIFA’s remaining alternative in favor of BeIN Sports, underneath unclear circumstances, and when it had already reached a previous settlement with Ligue 1+, led to the resignation of Nicolas de Tavernost from his place as basic director of LFP Media. It as soon as once more revealed the fractures throughout the League’s board of administrators, and the dearth of an efficient response to the financial disaster during which our soccer is plunged.

The most important explanation for this disaster, the autumn in audiovisual rights – the golf equipment’ most important useful resource – will not be unintended: it’s largely the results of questionable strategic decisions and governance errors attributable to our authorities, specifically the Professional Football League.

Collective accountability

For a number of years, the Mediapro episode, the succession of negotiations carried out in a rush and the absence of a coherent industrial technique have progressively weakened the worth of the Ligue 1 “product”. Meanwhile, the opposite main European championships continued their growth and consolidated their home revenues. The differential has continued to widen.

We don’t evade the collective accountability {of professional} golf equipment – and subsequently ours – in these failures. It is that this similar accountability that leads us at the moment to talk out and suggest motion to keep away from a long-lasting endangerment of our golf equipment, a downgrading of our championship and, past that, a weakening of all French soccer in all its elements.

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