PARIS: Amazon is among the contenders to secure the domestic broadcast contract for France’s troubled Ligue 1 although neither they nor the other candidates met the asking price when the rights were put up for tender on Monday, the French league (LFP) said.
Online sports streaming platform DAZN and American media giant Discovery also made offers, but the two main, established broadcasters on the French scene — Canal Plus and the Qatari group beIN Sports — chose not to come forward.
The LFP said in a statement that it had received offers from “three major international groups: Amazon, Discovery and DAZN” for the domestic broadcast rights to show games in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2.
“As the reservation price was not…