The official Ligue 1 broadcaster refused to pay all of its financial due date and defends itself.
New controversy around the broadcast of the French Ligue 1. championship. After having struggled to find a broadcaster, Ligue 1 is now faced with a refusal of payment of its diffuser, Dazn. Wednesday, February 12, at the end of the afternoon, the extraordinary board of directors of the Professional Football League (LFP) confirmed to club presidents that a legal battle was launched between the League and Dazn.
The reason is simple, Dazn has paid only 50 % of its financial deadline, or 35 million euros gross and put “under receivers” the 35 million remaining. To justify such an act because Dazn is not deemed to be a bad payer, the broadcaster assigned the league in summary proceedings before the Commercial Court of Paris for non-compliance with all the conditions of the contract. The platform criticizes that the potential for subscribers to Ligue 1 were overvalued to encourage the group to get started. The massive hacking to follow the meetings are also put in the scale and finally, the clubs would not really play the game to create insides and vary the content. Dazn would like to install a variable part of the amount linked to its number of subscribers.
A very fast court decision?
For its part, in response, the LFP seized the Paris economic actions court for non-payment of Dazn. A procedure for “summary of an hour by hour”, was chosen. A public hearing is scheduled for Friday morning, such as the media The informed said it. At the end of the hearing, the court may decide to make its decision in the siege, that is to say immediately, or put it under deliberation. If this option was chosen, given the urgency of the situation, the court should only take a few days to decide. Its decision can be “enforceable on minute”, that is to say it takes effect immediately, even if it can be the subject of an appeal.