French football weighs new governance as professional sport reform nears Assembly vote | OneFootball

France’s National Assembly is due to examine on 29 June a bill to reform professional sport’s governance. Anticipating a possible vote, Foot Unis, the clubs’ union, commissioned a study outlining four models for football.

According to L'Équipe, the confidential 10-page document is dated February 2026 and was prepared by a law firm after the Senate passed the text almost a year earlier.

It proposes replacing the Ligue de Football Professionnel and its commercial arm LFP Media with a simplified joint-stock company owned by Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs, the French Football Federation and CVC Capital Partners.

The study sets out four options: 1) general meeting and directoire, 2) general meeting, directoire and a representative supervisory board, 3) general meeting, directoire and specialised committees, 4) general meeting, directoire, an independent supervisory board and a monitoring committee. Option two currently attracts most support, though no formal choice has been made.

Under the favoured option, the directoire would be the collective executive of the clubs’ company, staffed by independent officers, with its president drawn from it. It would run day-to-day management and deliver club-defined strategy, covering operations, representation, business planning, financial reporting and convening general meetings. Major decisions would come from a supervisory board overseeing the directoire, made up of representatives of the clubs, the FFF and CVC, with UNFP, UNECATEF and the referees’ union potentially involved. Both bodies would be appointed by clubs with a deliberative vote. If the bill passes this summer, the study would guide the final model.

Source: L'Équipe