L'Équipe, the French free-to-air digital and terrestrial channel, has extended its deal to show the Supercopa de España soccer competition for an additional three seasons.
The broadcaster, which has aired the Supercopa since 2020, will retain rights through 2028.
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The channel will broadcast the semi-finals and final of the competition every year.
L'Equipe’s new agreement has been announced ahead of the 2026 edition of the Supercopa, which begins on January 7.
The four-team mini-tournament, once again taking place in Saudi Arabia, will see last season’s LaLiga and Copa del Rey winners Barcelona take on Athletic Club in the opening semi-final. Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid will face off on the following day in the other semi.
Both matches will be shown on the L'Équipe live foot channel in France.
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By GlobalDataThe games will be held at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah.
At the start of the year, RFEF president Rafael Louzan revealed the Spanish soccer federation is in talks to continue staging the Supercopa in Saudi Arabia until 2034.
The current agreement between the Kingdom and the RFEF is not due to expire until 2029, but the two parties are keen to agree on a five-year extension.
The RFEF is seeking to extend its relationship with Saudi Arabia despite an ongoing corruption and money laundering investigation into the deal to take the Supercopa to the country by Spanish authorities.
Disgraced former RFEF president Luis Rubiales, who negotiated the initial deal, was arrested in April 2023 concerning that agreement.
The Supercopa was moved to Saudi Arabia in 2020, in a deal reportedly worth more than €40 million ($41 million) per year.
Five of the last six editions of the competition have been staged in the Kingdom, except for 2021 (due to the Covid-19 pandemic), when it was held in Spain.
The Supercopa deal, struck in 2019, also expanded what had been a one-game competition to a four-match affair featuring four teams (the LaLiga and Copa del Rey winners, as well as the beaten Copa del Rey finalists and second-placed LaLiga team).
With Real Madrid finishing as runners-up to Barcelona in both the league and the cup last season, Atletico and Athletic, who finished third and fourth, respectively, in LaLiga last year, have taken the remaining spots for this edition of the Supercopa.
The competition will feature several French players, including Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe, Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, and Ferland Mendy, Barcelona's Joules Kounde, and Atletico's Antoine Griezmann.
