Sports broadcasting contracts in France

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Sports broadcasting contracts in France include:

Athletics

• Paris Marathon: France Télévisions until 2020
• French Championships in Athletics: RMC Sport
• IAAF World Championships in Athletics: France Télévisions & Eurosport
  until 2017
• European Athletics Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport
• IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics: France Télévisions & Eurosport
• IAAF Diamond League: RMC Sport except Canal+ for the Herculis in Monaco^[1]
• European Cup: France Télévisions & Eurosport

Basketball

• beIN Sports
• beIN Sports
• FIBA Basketball World Cup: Canal+ and France Télévisions
• EuroBasket: DAZN and Courtside 1891 (qualifiers)
• FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup: Canal+ and France Télévisions
• EuroBasket Women: Canal+ and France Télévisions
• Ligue Nationale de Basketball: L'Équipe and Sport en France
• Euroleague: RMC Sport
• France national basketball team: DAZN and Courtside 1891
  (FIBA European qualifiers game)
• Ligue Féminine de Basketball: Sport en France
• EuroLeague Women: Sport en France
• France women's national basketball team: RMC Story (free)
• RMC Story
  (free)
• NBL: Fanseat

Boxing

• RMC Sport
  (most PPV fights)
• Matchroom Boxing: DAZN
• Top Rank: RMC Sport
• Golden Boy: DAZN
• Dream Boxing: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights

American Football

• NFL: L'Équipe
  (2020–present) (Sunday games and play-offs (inc. Super Bowl))

• Tour de France: France Télévisions & Eurosport until 2025
• Paris–Nice: France Télévisions & Eurosport until 2020
• Paris–Roubaix: France Télévisions
• UCI ProTour: France Télévisions & Eurosport until 2020
• Vuelta a España: Eurosport until 2020
• L'Equipe
  (free) until 2020
• L'Equipe
  (free) until 2020
• L'Equipe
  (free) until 2020
• Tour des Flandres: France Télévisions & Eurosport
  until 2017
• Track Cycling World Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport
• World Road Cycling Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport
• European Road Cycling Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport
• French National Road Race Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport

Football

National teams

• beIN Sports
  for 2022.
• FIFA U-20 World Cup: L'Équipe until 2025.
• FIFA U-17 World Cup: L'Équipe until 2025.
• FIFA World Cup Qualifiers:
  • UEFA:
    • L'Équipe, TMC, TFX, W9 (all matches except those of France)
    • TF1, and M6 (France matches only)
  • CONMEBOL:
    • DAZN
• FIFA Women's World Cup: France Télévisions and M6 (2023)
• FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: L'Équipe until 2026.
• FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: L'Équipe until 2026.
• UEFA European Championship: TF1, M6 (23 of 51 matches live, including opening group match, all France matches, both semi finals, and a final), and beIN Sports
  for 2020.
• UEFA Nations League: L'Équipe (selected group stage matches only), TMC, TFX, W9 (exclude France matches), TF1, and M6 (France matches only) 2018-2027
• UEFA European Qualifiers:
  • L'Équipe, TMC, TFX, W9 (exclude France matches)
  • TF1, and M6 (France matches only).
• UEFA teams Friendly Matches (exclude France team): L'Équipe, TMC, TFX, and W9 2018-2022.
• beIN Sports
  for 2023.
• UEFA European Youth Championships :
  RMC Sport (U-17
  matches)
• UEFA Women's Championship: TF1 (14 matches, including opening group match, all France matches, both semi finals, and a final) and Canal+ (all 31 matches live) for 2021.^[2]
• M6 (including finals tournament) and France Télévisions
• France national football team: TF1 and M6 until 2022.
• France national under-21 football team: L'Équipe (2023-present)
• M6 and France Télévisions
  2023-2027
• beIN Sports
  for 2019.
• beIN Sports
  for 2019.
• RMC Sport
  for 2023

• FIFA Club World Cup: L'Équipe (2023)

France

• LFP (France) (2020-2024): Amazon Prime (all three (Trophée des Champions (2020-2023) and both leagues)) and other broadcasters (Leagues only)
  • Ligue 1: Canal+
  • beIN Sports
• Coupe de France: France Télévisions and beIN Sports until 2026.
• Championnat National: Canal+
• French women's football league: Canal+ (until 2028-29)
• Coupe de France féminine: France Télévisions and beIN Sports until 2026.

Europe

• beIN Sports
  (from 2021–22 until 2023–24).
• RMC Sport and RMC Story until 2021. M6 and Canal+
  from 2021 until 2024.
• UEFA Europa Conference League: M6 and Canal+ from 2021 until 2024.
• beIN Sports
  from 2021 until 2023.
• RMC Sport until 2020-21. Canal+ or beIN Sports
  from 2021 until 2024.
• UEFA Women's Champions League: DAZN 2021-2025
• RMC Sport
  until 2022.
• beIN Sports
  until 2021.
• beIN Sports
  until 2020.
• EFL: beIN Sports^[3] until 2022
  • Cup
  • Championship
  • League One
  • League Two
• beIN Sports
  until 2021
  • La Liga
  • La Liga 2
    (promotion play-offs only)
• RFEF: L'Équipe
  2020 until 2025
  • Copa del Rey
  • Supercopa de España
• beIN Sports
  until 2021
• beIN Sports
  until 2021.
• beIN Sports
  until 2020.
• DFB-Pokal: YouTube (first round until quarter finals) and L'Équipe (three matches, only aired both semi-finals and a final)^[4]
• Eredivisie: Triller TV (2024-25 until 2026-27)
• RMC Sport
• Taça de Portugal: L'Équipe (final only)
• Russian Premier League: YouTube
• Eliteserien: Eurosport
• Allsvenskan: Eurosport

America

• CONMEBOL Libertadores: Canal+ (final only, in 2019)^[5]
• Argentine Primera División: Fanatiz
• Copa Argentina: Fanatiz
• Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A
  : Fanatiz until 2021
• RMC Sport
• National Women's Soccer League: DAZN (2023)^[6]

Asia

• AFC Champions League: Triller TV
• A-Leagues: YouTube
• J.League: YouTube
• K League: K League TV
• Saudi Professional League: Canal+
  (until 2024-25)

• UEFA Futsal Champions League: UEFA.tv (final four only)

Golf

• Ryder Cup: Canal+
• The Open Championship: Canal+
• U.S. Open: Canal+
• The Masters: Canal+
• PGA Championship: Canal+
• PGA European Tour: Canal+
• World Golf Championships: Canal+
• PGA Tour: Canal+
• LPGA Tour: Golf Channel France
• Solheim Cup: Golf Channel France
• Asian Tour: Golf Channel France

Handball

• IHF World Men's Handball Championship: TF1 and beIN Sports until 2019
• IHF World Women's Handball Championship: beIN Sports and France Télévisions until 2019
• European Men's Handball Championship: TF1 (until 2024) and beIN Sports^[7]
• European Women's Handball Championship: TF1 (until 2024) and beIN Sports^[7]
• French Championship: beIN Sports until 2019
• Women's French Championship:
  beIN Sport
  until 2017
• France men's national handball team: beIN Sports until 2019
• France women's national handball team: beIN Sports until 2019.
• EHF Champions League: Eurosport
• French Cup: L'Équipe
• French League Cup: beIN Sports until 2019

Ice hockey

• NHL: Canal+
• Ligue Magnus: Sport en France
• La Chaîne L'Équipe

Kickboxing

• King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights

Mixed Martial Arts

• RMC Sport
• RMC Sport
• RMC Sport
• RMC Sport
• Bushido MMA: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
• MMA Grand Prix: Sport en France

Motor Sport

• Formula One: Canal+, with the 4 other races (French and Monaco Grand Prix plus 2 selected races) co-aired by TF1^[8]
• FIA Formula 2 Championship: Canal+
• FIA Formula 3 Championship: Canal+
• Dakar Rally: France Télévisions until 2020
• Formula Truck: Eurosport
• Canal+ Sport
• Canal+, Eurosport
• Le Mans 24 Hour: France Télévisions, Eurosport
• FIA World Endurance Championship: L'Équipe
• FIA World Rallycross Championship: L'Équipe
• World Touring Car Cup: Eurosport
• L'Equipe 21
• Andros Trophy: L'Équipe
• MotoGP: Canal+
  (since 2019)
• Superbike World Championship: Eurosport
• Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters: Automoto

Multi-discipline Events

• Olympic Games: France Télévisions until 2024 and Eurosport
• Paralympic Games: France Télévisions until 2024

Rugby

Union

• World Rugby
  • Rugby World Cup 2019: TF1
  • Canal+ Sport
• Six Nations: France Télévisions
• France Televisions
• Canal+ Sport for England and Ireland beIN Sports
  for Wales and Scotland
• EPCR (through 2022): France Télévisions (top pick of each round) and beIN Sports.
  • European Champions Cup
  • European Challenge Cup
• LNR: Canal+
  • Top 14: final is co-aired by France 2.
  • Rugby Pro D2: also available on Eurosport and France 3
    .
• Canal+
  • International Test Matches (including Rugby Championship and excluding France home internationals)
  • Super Rugby
• English Premiership: RMC Sport
• beIN Sport

• Vendée Globe: RMC Story (free)

Swimming

• FINA World Aquatics Championships: France Télévisions & Canal+
  until 2019
• LEN European Aquatics Championships: France Télévisions & Eurosport until 2020

Tennis

• French Open: France Télévisions, Amazon Prime Video (both until 2023)^[9]
• Wimbledon: beIN Sports
  until 2023
• US Open: Eurosport until 2022
• Australian Open: Eurosport until 2031
• Davis Cup: TF1 (France matches only) and beIN Sports
• Billie Jean King Cup: France Télévisions (France matches only) and beIN Sports until 2022
• ATP Finals: Eurosport until 2023
• ATP Tour Masters 1000: Eurosport also Monte-Carlo Masters and Paris Masters on C8
  (Semifinals and Finals only)
• ATP Tour 500: Eurosport
  until 2023
• ATP Tour 250: Eurosport and beIN Sports
• WTA Tour: beIN Sports until 2026
• United Cup:
• Laver Cup: beIN Sports

Volleyball

• FIVB Volleyball Men's and Women's Nations League : L'Équipe^[10]
• FIVB Men's and Women's World Championships : L'Équipe^[11]

Winter sports

• FIS Alpine Ski & Nordic Ski World Championships: Eurosport
• Snowboard:
  RMC Sport
• Biathlon: Eurosport & L'Équipe
• Bobsled & skeleton: L'Équipe

See also

• List of sports television broadcast contracts

References