One year later, the XV of France is back at the Stade de France. The rugby Blues left the Saint-Denis enclosure in despair, beaten in the quarter-final of their World Cup by South Africa (29-28), on October 15, 2023. After a disputed 2024 Six Nations Tournament without Stade de France and without its star Antoine Dupont, both in full preparation for the Olympics, the Blues will therefore find both of them, this Saturday (9:10 p.m.), for the first of three test matches in November, against Japan. The French XV also finds its broadcaster from last year’s World Cup, the private channel TF1.
Exit France Télévisions, usual broadcaster of these autumn tests and still of the Six Nations Tournament. The TF1 group has in fact acquired, at the start of 2023, the rights to these November matches for two years, in 2024 and 2025. One more foray by the first channel into the world of the oval ball. “TF1 in rugby is nothing new,” recalls Julien Millereux, sports director of the TF1 group. We have been a historic broadcaster of the World Cups since 1991, there is only one that we have not broadcast. »
