In the midst of the Ligue 1 TV rights crisis, Vincent Labrune is widely re-elected president of the Professional Football League

And in the end, it’s Vincent Labrune who wins. After weeks of media drama and other twists and turns related to the candidacy of his opponent Cyril Linette, the outgoing president of the Professional Football League (LFP) was indeed re-elected for a second four-year term on Tuesday, September 10, following the LFP general assembly held at the Gaillard Hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The former president of Olympique de Marseille thus received 85.67% of the vote against the former general director of The Team and PMU.

This re-election comes almost the day after a new crisis in French football, linked to yet another fiasco of TV rights for Ligue 1, finally acquired by the new British broadcaster, DAZN, for the next five seasons. The price of the subscription was also temporarily reduced on Monday to 19.99 euros per month after the revolt of fans and followers of the French championship, revolted by the initial rates deemed exorbitant (starting at 29.99 euros per month). An affair that ultimately did not prevent Vincent Labrune, at the center of the negotiations for TV rights, from being reappointed at the head of the LFP while Cyril Linette presented himself with the desire to set up a “reconquest plan which [supposait] to start from scratch.” Clearly, change is not on the horizon for the LFP.