The operator has just rolled out its Free Ligue 1 mobile application into a website allowing you to watch the goals and summaries of French football championship matches free of charge.
Notice to football fans: you can now follow all Ligue 11 Uber Eats matches for free! Indeed, Free has just launched a website accessible to all allowing you to see the highlights of all the matches almost live (goals, saves, etc.) and even to have a complete summary just fifteen minutes after the final whistle. . In fact, since 2020 and until 2024, the operator has held certain audiovisual broadcasting rights for the matches – one of the prizes of the Professional Football League – authorizing it to broadcast extracts with a slight delay. This allows it to offer video monitoring via its free Free Ligue 1 mobile application, available on Android and iOS. And it is precisely an online version of this app that Free has been offering since Thursday, February 3 with Free Ligue 1 website. A completely free site, and open to all, even to those who are not customers of the operator.
Main advantages of this Web version: it is accessible via a simple Internet browser, on all platforms (computer, telephone, tablet and even connected TV), without having to install anything: and it benefits from an adaptive display – specialists talk about responsive design –, which allows it to automatically match its interface to the format and definition of the screen used. A promise of comfort for those who have trouble enjoying sports images on the phone.
Access the free site Free Ligue 1
Download the Free Ligue 1 app for Android
Download the Free Ligue 1 app for iOS
Even if they do not replace the – expensive – subscriptions allowing to watch matches live and in full, the site and the Free Ligue 1 app are valuable solutions for football fans insofar as they are completely free. and where they cover all the matches in the championship. Coincidentally, the launch of the Free Ligue 1 site comes at a time when beIN Sports and Canal+, the major TV channels specializing in sport, have succeeded in blocking pirate sites which illegally broadcast matches in streaming (see our article). A court decision imposed on ISPs which will probably not prevent clever people from turning to “alternative” solutions accessible on the Internet (see our article), but which clearly marks the beginning of a merciless fight against broadcasters unauthorized.