The channel will broadcast all the matches of the French men's team, excluding the Euros and the World Cup negotiated separately, counting for the League of Nations, as well as its friendly and qualifying matches for Euro 2024, the 2026 World Cup and the Euro 2028.
The group, owned by Bouygues, also announced that it had reached an agreement with the French Football Federation (FFF) "giving access to unpublished images of the team in the desire to produce series and documentaries around the Blues".
TF1 therefore once again becomes the essential partner of the French team and the FFF: "the TF1 group is the home of the Blues!", Summed up in a press release its CEO Gilles Pélisson.
"It has never been so important to offer the French public free-to-air access to the biggest sporting events with the widest possible coverage and on all channels. TF1's ambition is to help strengthen the link social and to bring all generations together around the most popular team sport in France", added the boss of TF1.
The CEO of TF1, Gilles Péllisson, during the 20th edition of the "Festival de fiction TV", September 14, 2018 in La Rochelle Xavier LEOTY AFP / Archives
The audiovisual group took the opportunity to announce that it had also obtained the exclusive unencrypted rights to the 25 most beautiful posters of Euro-2028.
These announcements put an end to a period of uncertainty for the Blues and the FFF who, despite the world title won in 2018 and world-renowned players like Kylian Mbappé and Karim Benzema, were struggling to seduce broadcasters.
The joy of attackers Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé, after France's victory in the Nations League final against Spain (2-1), on October 10, 2021 at the San Siro Stadium in Milan FRANCK FIFE AFP / Archives
The call for tenders for the matches of the 2022/2028 period thus remained unsuccessful last fall.
At the end of March, when the contract signed in 2018 and associating TF1 and M6 as co-broadcasters of the Blues expires, the candidates do not jostle and/or their financial proposals are disappointing.
On May 5, TF1 and M6, which are in the process of merging, announce that they will share the broadcasting of Les Bleus matches during the next Nations League, namely four matches which took place in June and two to come in September. , the 22nd against Austria at the Stade de France and the 25th in Denmark, as well as the broadcast of Euro-2024.
The joy of French players, after winning the League of Nations by beating Spain (2-1) in the final, on October 10, 2021 at the San Siro Stadium in Milan FRANCK FIFE AFP / Archives
Two months later, TF1 decides to go it alone with the Blues, without revealing the amounts spent for the acquisition of these rights.
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