International pay-TV broadcaster BeIN Sports has snapped up rights in France to the EuroBasket men's national team basketball tournament.
The Qatar-based broadcaster will show most of the FIBA EuroBasket matches for a French audience, with the country's national side one of the tournament favorites.
This year's EuroBasket, containing 24 teams, will take place across Latvia, Finland, Poland, and Cyprus, between August 27 and September 14.
BeIN will show all games featuring the French national team, who will play against Belgium, Slovenia, Iceland, Poland, and Israel in the group phase.
The pay-TV operator will share tournament rights with French commercial broadcaster TF1, which snapped up rights to events organized by international basketball's governing body FIBA in late May. That deal runs through the 2025 and 2029 editions of the quadrennial EuroBasket.
As was confirmed in May, the 2029 tournament will also be held across four countries - Estonia, Greece, Slovenia, and Spain.
The French men's team has only previously won one EuroBasket title, in 2013, but over recent years has enjoyed medal success at World Championships and the Olympic Games.
As such, they are arguably one of the favorites for this year's event, alongside nations such as Spain.
In terms of BeIN's other basketball rights in France, meanwhile, the broadcaster also showed last season's NBA (which features several French national team players).
