It's a done deal: the French national team's matches will be exclusively on TF1 until 2028! The first French channel announced this Friday theacquisition of all the TV rights of theFrench team, after several years of sharing the spoils with other broadcasters. On the program, all the matches of the men's team, including the Nations League, and for the friendly and qualifying matches forEuro 2024 and 2028, as well as the World Cup 2026.
The TF1 group also indicates that it has reached an agreement with the French Football Federation to have access to"previously unseen images of the team in order to produce series and documentaries about the Blues". A fruitful partnership, and on the long term, which will allow many French people to see the matches of French players in the coming years. In addition, the 25 best matches of Euro 2028 will be shown on TF1 only.
Gilles Pélisson, head of the channel, added that "TF1's ambition is to participate in strengthening the social link and to bring together all generations around the most popular team sport in France. Without M6, visibly, while the two French channels had announced a merger on May 5, 2022, indicating that they would share the broadcasting of matches...
