Fubo in France: The Company Is Here, the Brand Is Not - USip VPN
Fubo in France: The Company Is Here, the Brand Is Not - USip VPN
Fubo in France

Fubo in France: You Cannot Buy Fubo, but Fubo Is Already Here

France is the only market in this set where the company behind Fubo sells live television under a name that is not Fubo. Knowing that changes what you should be looking for.

Fubo’s own help centre and investor filings · France sources · checked 21 September 2026
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Short answer

No Fubo-branded service has ever been sold in France, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing was taken away. What does exist is Molotov — a French live-TV platform that fuboTV Inc. has owned since December 2021 and which carries Ligue 1+. If you were looking for live French football from Fubo’s parent company, you have been looking at the wrong brand name.

Start here

The Company Is in France Under Another Name

Fubo has never launched a Fubo-branded service in France. It bought one instead.

Every other page in this set answers a question about the Fubo brand. This one cannot, because in France the brand is not the interesting part — the ownership is.

fuboTV Inc. completed its acquisition of Molotov SAS in December 2021. Molotov is a French live-television platform, and in Fubo’s own words it is not a small one:

“France’s leading live TV platform that is revolutionizing access to television and content, available on all screens and connected devices.”

Fubo investor relations, 18 August 2025

Fubo calls Molotov “its subsidiary in France”. Its standard description of its own footprint puts the two side by side without conflating them:

“Fubo in the U.S., Canada and Spain and Molotov in France”

Fubo’s own About Fubo paragraph, August 2025

Fubo in three countries; Molotov in France. Same company, deliberately different names, and the difference is not cosmetic — Molotov is a French product built for French viewers, not a translated Fubo.

What Molotov picked up in 2025

In August 2025 Fubo announced Molotov’s first major sports rights distribution deal: Ligue 1+ carriage, non-exclusive, beginning with the 2025/26 season. Molotov subscribers to Ligue 1+ get, in Fubo’s words:

“eight of the nine live matches each gameday, with a delayed broadcast of the additional match”

Fubo investor relations, 18 August 2025

plus shows, analysis, documentaries and replays.

What this page does not do is tell you what else Molotov carries, what its tiers cost, or which of them includes Ligue 1+. Those facts belong to Molotov and were not taken from Molotov, so they are not stated here. The quotation above is Fubo’s own, checked on 21 September 2026; for the current French line-up and prices, Molotov’s own site is the only source worth using.

Four markets, four names

Where Fubo Operates, in Fubo’s Own Words

France is the only one of the four where the product is not called Fubo.

“Most programming on Fubo is only available in the United States and U.S. territories.”

Fubo Help Center — is Fubo available in my country?

Note what that article does not say. It names Canada and Spain as the other countries with a Fubo service and does not mention France at all — correctly, because there is no Fubo service in France to mention. France appears only in the corporate descriptions, under Molotov’s name.

“The programming available in these countries is not the same as what's available in the U.S.”

Same article
MarketWhat is sold there
United StatesThe full vMVPD: local ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC affiliates, regional sports networks, the entertainment tiers.
CanadaSports only since April 2026 — and every Premier League match, exclusively.
SpainA Spanish free-to-air bundle for a few euros a month. Not a sports vMVPD at all.
FranceNo Fubo brand. Fubo owns Molotov, which is sold under its own name.

Fubo reports France and Spain together as “Rest of World”. At Q2 fiscal 2026, announced 6 May 2026, that segment held 328,000 subscribers against 5.7 million in North America — so the French and Spanish businesses together are about six per cent of the company by subscriber count.

The service you cannot buy here

What the American Service Costs

For completeness, since this is the product the search term points at — these are Fubo’s American prices.

Fubo plan (United States)Price per month
Essential, Pro, Core$88.99
Elite, Ultra$98.99
Ultimate$113.99
Deluxe$118.99
Fubo Sports$64.99

Fubo currently sells Pro, Core, Elite and Ultra as English-language TV plans, a Sports + News service and a Spanish-language Latino plan. The figures above are Fubo’s own, published in its help centre and checked on 21 September 2026.

They went up in 2026 after Fubo agreed carriage of NBCUniversal’s networks, announced on 10 June 2026: TV plans by $15 a month, the Sports service by $9. Fubo does not give a single switchover date — it says the date “will vary depending on when NBCUniversal channels become available in your area”. A regional sports fee of $15.99 a month applies where NBC’s regional networks are carried.

None of these plans is sold in France, and none of them carries Ligue 1. The American service is built on American rights: the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, the American local affiliates and the regional sports networks. French football is not in it, and would not be even if the brand launched here tomorrow.

This is worth stating flatly because the two most common reasons a French reader searches for Fubo — Ligue 1 and American sport — point at two different products, and only one of them has anything to do with the table above.

Fubo’s own conditions

Rules That Apply to Any Fubo Account

If you end up with an American Fubo subscription by some route, these are the published rules it comes with.

01

Territory

Fubo’s travel article states that the American service is available in the United States and its territories, and that a subscriber travelling outside those areas will not be able to watch it.

02

Local channels follow the stream

The ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC affiliates on an American plan are decided by where the stream is happening rather than where the account was opened. They are the part of the package least likely to behave the way a new subscriber expects.

03

Regional sports need a check-in

Regional Sports Networks do travel, but a device used outside the home area must be checked in from the home area at least once every thirty days. Miss the window and the network stops appearing on that device.

04

Televisions are one location at a time

Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Xbox and smart TVs stream from a single location at a time. Phones, tablets and web browsers do not carry that restriction.

“Local channels such as ABC, CBS, or FOX will not travel with you. The local programming you receive is based on your location when streaming Fubo.”

Fubo Help Center — watching away from home

“Regional Sports channels will travel with you, any devices you use outside of your home area must be ‘checked in’ from your home area at least once per 30 days.”

Same article

“You can only stream on connected TV devices (Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Xbox One) or Smart TVs from one location at a time.”

Same article

None of these applies to Molotov, which is a French service under French arrangements and is not described by Fubo’s American help centre at all. They are listed here because the American service is what the search term points at, and because they are the conditions people most often discover after paying rather than before.

The one worth dwelling on is the second. American local affiliates are the single least portable component of the package — more so than the national networks, more so than the on-demand library — and they are also a large part of what the price buys.

What USip actually sells

What a Residential US IP Address Changes — and What It Does Not

What it changes

  • Presents a residential United States network route in place of a non-US one
  • Keeps one consistent network identity through sign-in and playback
  • Separates a location question from an account, plan or rights question while you are working out which one you have
  • Lets you test in a desktop browser before configuring a television or a streaming stick

What it leaves untouched

  • Your Fubo account, your plan, or the channels that plan includes
  • Which local channels you are offered — Fubo says those follow the location the stream is happening in
  • The thirty-day home-area check-in that regional sports networks require
  • The one-location-at-a-time rule on connected televisions
  • Whether Fubo serves you. Fubo decides that, and nothing on this page is a guarantee that it will

USip sells the network part and nothing else. Every rule in the section above is Fubo’s and still applies in full.

None of this touches Molotov, which is a French service sold in France and has nothing to do with any of it. If Ligue 1 is what you came for, the answer on this page is a brand name, not a network product.

Before you go looking

Four Things to Establish From France

The brand confusion here is genuine and it wastes people’s time. These four checks resolve it.

01

Decide which sport you are actually after

Ligue 1 and the NFL are held by different companies in different countries. If it is French football, the Fubo brand is irrelevant and Molotov is the name to search for.

02

Look up Molotov directly, not through Fubo

Molotov’s own site carries its current tiers, prices and channel list. Fubo’s investor releases confirm the ownership and the Ligue 1+ deal, and stop there — as does this page.

03

Do not wait for a French Fubo launch

Fubo has never sold a Fubo-branded product in France and has announced no intention to. It bought the French market’s incumbent instead, which is a strategy that does not usually precede launching a competitor to it.

04

If it really is American sport you want, price that separately

The American Sports service is $64.99 a month before the regional sports fee. That is the cost of the thing you were searching for, and it is a different decision from anything involving Molotov.

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USip sells residential US IP addresses. It is a network product; it has nothing to do with Molotov, and this page has tried to be clear about which of the two questions you are actually asking.

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Questions people actually ask

Fubo in France: Frequently Asked Questions

Is Fubo available in France?

No Fubo-branded service is sold in France, and none ever has been. Fubo’s availability article names only Canada and Spain as the other countries with a Fubo service.

Did Fubo leave France?

No. It never launched a Fubo-branded service there to leave. What it did was buy Molotov, a French platform, in December 2021, and it still owns it.

What is Molotov?

A French live-television platform. Fubo describes it as “France’s leading live TV platform” and as “its subsidiary in France”. It is sold under its own name, not Fubo’s.

Does Molotov have Ligue 1?

Fubo announced in August 2025 that Molotov had secured Ligue 1+ carriage on a non-exclusive basis from the 2025/26 season, with eight of the nine live matches each gameday and the ninth delayed. For what is carried today, check Molotov directly.

Is Molotov the same as Fubo?

No. Same parent company, different brand, different country, different content. Fubo’s own phrasing keeps them separate: “Fubo in the U.S., Canada and Spain and Molotov in France”.

Will Fubo rebrand Molotov as Fubo?

Nothing Fubo has published says so, and this page will not guess. As of 21 September 2026 the company’s own standard description still names the two services separately.

Can I get American Fubo channels through Molotov?

Nothing in Fubo’s announcements suggests American channels move across. The two services hold rights in different countries, and shared ownership does not transfer rights.