The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, described as a “beautiful proposal” that made to Fifa by the M6 and France Télévisions channels to broadcast the Women’s World Cup (July 20-August 20) still without retransmission planned at a little more than a month of the event.
“I’m really hopeful that in the next few hours or in the next half-days, we will manage to land on a global agreement,” she said on RTL on Tuesday. “Negotiations are progressing well, a good offer has been made by France Télévisions and M6,” she said.
“Fifa will have a great proposal on the table, now it’s up to them,” she said. “We are not very far from an agreement”, she assured, recalling that women’s sport is only the subject of 5% of retransmissions in France.
The World Cup will start on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand and no TV channel has yet acquired the broadcasting rights in France, as in other European countries, for lack of a financial agreement. At the end of April, Fifa explained that it “did not intend to sell off this competition”.
The president of the FFF, Philippe Diallo, had spoken on Saturday of a close outcome and “announcements in the hours and days to come”. The Minister of Sports was also “delighted” with the broadcast of the matches of the French women’s team broadcast on France Télévisions and W9 during the next four seasons (2023-2027), as well as a new agreement until 2029 with Channel regarding the championship.
