The American giant Amazon unveiled its streaming offer for Ligue 1 on Tuesday afternoon, with a subscription of 12.99 euros per month, in addition to a necessary subscription to Amazon Prime.

In addition, the Ligue 2 multiplex will be broadcast all season long on the L'Équipe channel.

Amazon Prime subscribers will have to pay an additional 12.99 euros per month to watch Ligue 1, for which the tech giant acquired the rights in June for the next three seasons, an American group official told AFP. . The Ligue 1 supplement, which will allow 80% of the elite's matches to be seen in accordance with the agreement concluded by Amazon and the Professional Football League (LFP), will be revocable at any time, Alex Green told AFP. The basic subscription to Amazon Prime is 5.99 euros per month or 49 euros per year.

In addition, concerning the broadcasting of Ligue 2, which starts on July 24, the American group has entered into a partnership with the channel L'Equipe for its broadcasting.

This new offer, dubbed "Prime Video Ligue 1", "will be the new home of Ligue 1 in France", argued the official.

The Champions Trophy accessible with Prime

The group will also offer its Prime subscribers content at no additional cost: it will be the Champions Trophy, which traditionally opens the L1 season, and which will pit Lille and PSG in early August in Tel Aviv, and a new one. magazine broadcast on Sundays at 7 p.m., before the big poster on Sunday evening.

In agreement with the Professional Football League (LFP), the kick-off of the Sunday evening match will now be brought forward to 8:45 p.m., instead of 9:00 p.m., "in the interest of the supporters on the move, as well as of the clubs and players who will have more time to rest "after the games, added Alex Green.

Regarding Ligue 2, the group will share the broadcast with the L'Equipe group.

The L'Equipe channel, broadcast free on TNT, will broadcast the multiplex of the eight matches on Saturday at 7 p.m., throughout the 2021/2022 season.

In addition, all 8 matches making up this multiplex can be seen on L'Equipe's digital platform, L'Equipe Live, until the end of September.

They will then be integrated into the new Prime Video Ligue 1 offer.

Several specialists recruited

To animate this new sports offer also including pre- and post-match broadcasts, Amazon has recruited several football specialists.

The first to be announced are presenters Thibault Le Rol and Marina Lorenzo, and commentators Smaïl Bouabdellah and Julien Brun, all four of whom worked for the defunct Téléfoot channel, whose group had recovered in June the rights brought into play by the LFP, after the resounding bankruptcy of this subsidiary of the Sino-Spanish group Mediapro.

This team will be completed by the start of the championship.