Amazon, the American distribution giant, broke into French football on Friday by sharing the distribution of Ligue 1 with Canal +, with an annual amount of EUR 663 million for clubs until 2024, we learned. from a source close to the deliberations.
According to the distribution adopted on Friday by the Board of Directors of the Professional Football League (LFP), Canal + will pay EUR 332 million each season over the period 2021-2024, against EUR 250 million annually for Amazon, which will add an extension to share also Ligue 2 (second division of the French championship) with beIN Sports. In total, professional clubs will receive half of what they should have obtained at the time of the eruption of Mediapro (EUR 1.2 billion), a failed broadcaster whose foray into France turned into a fiasco.
