Germany

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has recorded profits in excess of €10m ($7.5m) for the third consecutive year, while it has surpassed its target of €250m in revenue for the 2013-14 financial campaign.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has extended the contract of chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke through to 2019.

BayernLB has rejected a €25m ($33.5m) settlement offer from Bernie Ecclestone in relation to the Formula One chief executive’s involvement in the 2005 sale of the German bank’s stake in the series.

Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone is set to remain the figurehead of the motor-racing series after a German court today (Tuesday) dropped a bribery case against him following the 83-year-old agreeing a $100m (€73.5m) payment to end the trial.

The German Football Association (DFB) has launched an online portal dedicated to amateur football in the country.

Borussia Dortmund is hoping to conclude a deal to sell a total of 10 per cent of the German Bundesliga club to two strategic partners by the end of September, according to managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke.

Online has overtaken print media for the consumption of sports content, according to ‘Know The Fan - The Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2014’ from Perform, Kantar Media and SportBusiness Group.

The DBB, basketball’s governing body in Germany, has confirmed that it will submit a bid to host the EuroBasket 2015 national team tournament, which is operated by the Fiba Europe division of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba).

Berlin has elected to participate in the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s (DOSB) procedure to determine whether to pursue a bid for the 2024 or 2028 Olympic Games.

Borussia Dortmund has furthered the German Bundesliga’s international expansion by announcing that it will establish an office in Singapore.

World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) promoter Eurosport Events has announced that the motor-racing series will race on Germany’s legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in 2015 as part of a new three-year deal.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has formed an in-house subsidiary to handle event management at its Signal Iduna Park home.

This third annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets takes our research wider and deeper than before. Wider, because the number of territories covered has increased from 10 to 14, with the inclusion this year of important growth markets such as India, Indonesia, Japan and Turkey. Deeper, because we have asked questions designed to burrow down into new areas, such as consumers’ second-screen activities, that have not been properly examined until now.

This second annual survey of global sports media consumption by Perform, KantarSport and TV Sports Markets confirms many of the trends highlighted in the first report in 2011 and brings into even sharper focus some of the changes in consumer habits that anybody working in the sports media industry needs to be attuned to.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has announced it is to support both the German and French Ice Hockey Federations in their staging of the 2017 World Championships.

The German Football League (DFL) has launched a tender for the design, implementation and operation of a centralised secondary ticketing platform for the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga.