“Record” budget, fuel checks… FFF announcements after the Comex

A helping hand in times of crisis. And the desire to communicate a green budget. The French Football Federation (FFF) will pay 2.2 million euros “in order to provide support” to the 12,000 amateur clubs, faced with rising gasoline prices at the pump during their travels, its president Philippe Diallo said on Thursday.

“Pump prices sometimes exceed EUR 2.50 and can pose problems for our clubs in terms of travel, because we organize nearly a million matches per year. (...). That means a lot of travel for parents, for clubs, for minibuses,” explained Philippe Diallo at the end of an FFF executive committee. “The federation wanted to be able to support our football, our clubs, through an operation where it released a budget of just over 2.2 million euros for the benefit of (...) our 12,000 clubs,” he said.

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This aid, which will be broken down according to the size of the clubs, will be paid “directly into the clubs’ accounts (...). For the smallest Clubs, that is to say those with fewer than 100 licensees, the aid will be 100 euros. For older children, the aid will be 500 euros,” explained the general director of the FFF Jean-François Vilotte.

A record budget from the FFF which exceeds “the milestone of 300 million euros”

Philippe Diallo also revealed during this Comex the result for the 2025-2026 financial year which will be presented in December at the next federal assembly, and which, for the first time in history “exceeds the milestone of 300 million euros”, with a net profit “of just over 4 million euros”, he assured.

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This increase of more than 12 million euros in revenue compared to the previous season “results from the evolution of the partnerships signed by the FFF”, specified the president, referring to the renewal of the equipment manufacturer and also the signing of “six new partners (...) to which are added the commercial activities”.

“It is obviously an element which comes, without being controversial, to pull the rug out from under the feet of all those who commented negatively on our result last season,” said Philippe Diallo.

During the 2024-2025 financial year, the FFF suffered a little more than 8 million euros in losses, mainly due to its support for the professional sector plunged into crisis due to the drastic drop in TV rights.