Orange will screen the German Bundesliga in France next season, after agreeing a deal to broadcast the league on the Orange sport channel.

The company, whose French subscribers can also watch top-flight soccer from Italy as wella s their own country's domestic league, the English League Cup and African soccer, will show six full matches this weekend as various leagues around Europe get underway.

Orange, which has more than two million digital customers in France, will show four Bundesliga matches over a normal weekend.