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FrédéricFrédéric GoyonGoyon Director Free Ligue 1 Free Ligue 1 pledges to bring fans closer to their team, every step of the way. As society opens up once again, it is more important than ever to maintain this connection. The service we provide breaks down every barrier and offers a personalised experience that seamlessly blends into the daily lives of football fans and followers of the French championship. More than anything else, Free Ligue 1 gives you choice. The choice to watch all the action from the Ligue 1 Uber Eats, or just get an overview of the highlights. The choice to follow your favourite club or keep tabs on what’s going on with two, three or even 20 teams! The choice to eat, sleep and breathe football by activating minute-by-minute notifications or dip in to enjoy the summaries prepared by our experts when you have the time. Free Ligue 1 also means being able to watch every match of the season, from the opening duel between AS Monaco and FC Nantes to kick off the championship battle right through to the return leg of the relegation/ promotion playoffs at the end of May next year. This comprehensive package is unique on the market as Free is the only broadcaster to combine the action from every match in one single package. Because it is really important, today more than ever, to make it easy for everyone to watch the Ligue 1 Uber Eats Free and give it the visibility it deserves. See you there for the first goal! ligue 1 AA newnew wayway toto watchwatch footballfootball Free Ligue 1 puts the fans at the centre of every match. They can take control of their experience through a service available on their smartphone (App Store and Google Play) or their Freebox (channel 63)*, which allows them to access all the content they want, wherever they are. For every match, fans will enjoy free access to dozens of video clips available as the action happens and a 30-minute round-up of the highlights. Just a few seconds after a goal, a stunning save or a near miss, fans will receive a notification informing them a video is available to watch (if they have configured their settings for such alerts) and they will be able to enjoy that particular passage of play over and over again. This new way of experiencing the game, instantly and on demand, will see football effortlessly permeate the daily lives of fans. In a hyperconnected, mobile world, Free Ligue 1 offers unprecedented and continuous visibility to the French championship, enabling fans to get their football fix when and how they choose. Whether they’re a die-hard supporter of a particular club or a fair-weather fan dipping their nose in, viewers control what they see, even when they’re busy with something else. Watch video clips from every single match played in the Ligue 1 Uber Eats, just after the action happens, through your Freebox. As it enables subscribers to watch extracts from every single match of the season, Free is the only official broadcaster to fully cover all the action from the Ligue 1 Uber Eats in a single package. Free Ligue 1 gives viewers access to video feeds from the 380 matches of the championship season, as well as the two relegation/promotion playoff matches, which see the team that finishes 18th in the Ligue 1 Uber Eats square up against the winner of the playoffs from the Ligue 2 BKT. Football fans now have a single platform where they can keep up with the highs and lows of their team’s season, from the first match of the season through to the last. *Excluding Freebox Crystal and Delta S AllAll thethe goalsgoals andand allall thethe highlightshighlights included in the package In addition to a completely new match experience, fans of the Ligue 1 Uber Eats will enjoy access to a comprehensive bank of videos that is enriched all throughout the season. Every goal can be watched on demand on the “Goals” page in the app, or via the player page. Over the 2020/2021 season, over 1,000 goals were scored and uploaded to the Free Ligue 1 service for fans to watch to their heart’s content. Furthermore, at the end of every match day, Free’s football experts put together a summary of each game, uploaded minutes after the final whistle is blown, as well as a full summary of the day’s play the next morning for fans to watch as they sip their morning coffee. As an added bonus for those insatiable football fanatics, there are themed summaries collating all the goals, the best saves, and the greatest moments from each match day in the Ligue 1 Uber Eats. Overall, our team of journalists will produce over 300 summaries throughout the 2021/2022 season. Everything you need to know about the Ligue 1 Uber Eats in your pocket The Free Ligue 1 app enables football fans to keep up to speed with what’s going on in the French championship, everywhere they go. Designed to tell them all they need to know when they’re on the move, the service adapts to every situation to help fans stay connected with their club or the league, wherever they may be. For fans lucky enough to be in the stadium, Free Ligue 1 means they can stay on top of the score at every other game in real time, as well as watch replays and analyse the most heart-stopping moments from the match they’re at. As soon as something important happens on the pitch, they can watch it back almost instantaneously in the app. Was it really a foul?? Did it deserve a yellow or a red card? Was it a free kick or a penalty? Get answers to all your questions in just a few seconds thanks to the dynamic video feed, which collates all the key moments from the match. And once the match is over, when you’re on the bus, at a restaurant, taking a walk or in the cinema, Free Ligue 1 offers a personalised service that can make itself the centre of attention of a discreet companion, depending on how you configure your settings. BriefBrief overviewoverview ofof thethe serviceservice Free Ligue 1 A quality mobile network so you can effortlessly follow the Ligue 1 Uber Eats Since 2011, Free has been investing heavily in deploying its own mobile infrastructure, meaning it now boasts a quality network all throughout the country. Currently, Free has the largest 5G network in France in terms of the number of sites, with 10,239 5G sites across the country, including 1,297 3.5 GHz sites.* 94% 98% 62% of our mobile customers of the French of the population would recommend population covered covered by 5G Free** by 4G * In terms of the number of operational 5G sites: 10,239 700 MHz/3.5 GHz sites (including 1,297 3.5 GHz sites) in mainland France at 30/06/21. See ARCEP 5G rollout observatory of 15 July 2021, available on arcep.fr. 5G: accessible in mainland France with compatible mobile handsets and network packages, only in covered areas. Coverage details on mobile.free.fr. 5G network currently being deployed (700 MHz and 3.5 GHz). **IFOP study for Free, representative sample of 379 Free mobile subscribers surveyed between 9/06 and 11/06 and 16/06 and 18/06 Interview with Sébastien Dupuis (former Canal+ journalist) MatchMatch commentarycommentary and Antoine Morin (former beIN SPORTS journalist) like never before Why did you decide to come to Free to How do you see the fight for the title commentate this season? panning out? Sébastien Dupuis: I started using the app. S.D.: After Lille won the championship I’m able to watch all the goals from every last year, PSG has been very busy in the game, when I want – in the evenings, transfer market. So has Lille, to make sure when I’m with my family, when I’m at they’re in a strong position to defend their work, whenever. And I thought it’d be title. Marseille have reinforced their team even better if these highlights got the sheet too and Lyon are preparing well. commentary they deserve. When Free Monaco, Rennes and perhaps Nice will be asked if I would commentate on the L1 up there, along with maybe one or two matches, I was more than open to the surprises. We’re hoping it’ll be tight. idea! Sebastien Dupuis, Hamza Rahmani, Tanguy le Seviller, Benjamin Allemand A.M.: As after every season when they Antoine Morin: Free brought me in don’t win the title, PSG will want to for the second half of the season to reassert their status and their business in commentate one game every match the transfer market proves that. I wouldn’t It’s one of the exciting new changes for the 2021/2022 season – the match day. It just seemed logical to me to be surprised to see them out on their clips will be commented live by our team of experienced journalists who have keep on this journey and be a part of own in the table. But between Monaco already attracted a significant following among football supporters and fans this new way of experiencing football. who haven’t really changed their lineup, of the French championship. This new audio format will ensure Free Ligue 1 Marseille and Nice who are making some gives fans what they’re looking for, taking them through the highs and lows Tell us about what the new format exciting signings, and Lyon who’s brought of the incredible journey that is the Ligue 1 season.