Canal+ will delight football fans with 18 additional channels

As you know, Canal + managed to regain the broadcasting rights of many football competitions in 2022. The period from September 2024 to 2027. The encrypted channel will be able to present all its matches on its own channels. Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League.

At the hearing before the National Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee, the channel’s general manager Gérald-Brice Viret gave detailed information on this issue: ““We have and broadcast 11 sports channels and are preparing with full rights to the Champions League to launch 18 additional live channels in August.”

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18 channels that will broadcast the main football competitions

Unfortunately, we don’t have any more details about these new channels at the moment. But we dream that These 18 channels will not be too many to broadcast hundreds of matches of these different competitions.. They will also be directly integrated into various Canal+ Sport bouquets.

As a reminder, the UEFA Champions League will change its format this year for the 2024/25 season. While the season started with 32 participants divided into eight groups of four, this time the season will start with 36 clubs. Four more teams will even have the chance to compete with the best clubs in Europe.

Regarding Ligue 1 Canal+ still continues its boycott strategy. At the same hearing in the National Assembly, Maxime Saada (editor’s note: President of Canal+) confirmed that he does not intend to acquire the TV rights of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 for the seasons from 2024 to 2029.

“We believe that we have been the victim of a very serious harm for the Canal+ group. This mainly explains the current account deficit of Canal+ in France. Under these circumstances, we have not renewed our participation in the Ligue 1 tender call and are not participating in over-the-counter negotiations today. Announced CEO of Hemicycle.

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