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With French Paris Saint-Germain about to change ownership hands, and with trouble on the pitch, club president Alain Cayzac resigned after a shareholder meeting. The club is teetering on the verge of relegation. Cayzac ended 22 months as club president. Manager Paul Le Guen ...

LFP, France's professional football league, has instituted a new formula to split television money among its upper tier. Ligue 2 will be awarded EUR 101.8 million of the EUR 668 million each season. The agreements were made with unanimous consent. A prior split awarded Ligue 2 ...

An attempt by Colony Capital to buy French Paris Saint-Germain through acquiring the club's parent company has been upheld by the European Commission. Colony will purchase 1.4 million Colfilm shares for an undisclosed sum from Butler Capital Partners and FCPR France Private Equity. That gives Colony a ...

Thierry Henry is the highest-paid French athlete, pulling down USD 26.7 million, and holding off NBA San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker. Parker is making USD 15 million, while Italian Inter Milan midfielder Patrick Vieira is third at USD 12.5 million. Forty-three of the top 50 Frenchmen ...

The French Football Federation (FFF) signed a seven and a half-year deal with sport goods manufacturer Nike, starting on 2011 and ending 2018. The FFF launched an invitation to tender at the beginning of year, where Adidas, Nike and Airness took part. Nike is ...

Host Broadcast Services (HBS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infront Sports & Media, has been announced as the winner of a tender for the role of host broadcaster for the first division of the French Football League (Ligue 1). The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) said that ...

The French LFP is set to generate an additional EUR 10 million from the international tender of Ligue 1 rights, offering four bidders the chance to own France's top tier. The league believes it will receive at least EUR 10 million more a year than it presently ...

French clubs under the umbrella of the Union of Professional Football Clubs have voted to join the Association of European Professional Football Leagues. The UCPF, which has been in existence since February 1990, has 44 French professional Ligue 1, Ligue 2 and third division clubs on its ...

Nike outbid sporting supply rival adidas to supply the French national teams kits, starting in 2011 and running through the 2017-2018 season. The French Football Federation (FFF) said it made the move because it tapped into more resources. Adidas had supplied the FFF since 1972. ...

A consulting firm has compiled a report with the findings that, if France's Ligue 1 wants to be thought of as one of the elite leagues, it will need to do heavy investment. The Soccer Investor reports that Inem Consulting and Marseille's Euromed School came to the ...