Germany

Munich’s bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games says it is undeterred by the disapproval of the Green Party, Germany’s third biggest political force.

The 36 clubs in Germany’s top two divisions are set to receive a share of the profits earned by the country’s football association at this year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

The Munich bid to organise the 2018 Winter Olympic Games has agreed a partnership that will see ARGE Munchen 2018 become a national supplier for architecture and planning.

The English Premier League is this season's leader in shirt sponsorship revenue amongst the top six European leagues. The EPL's €128 million revenue leapfrogged the German Bundesliga with a €45 million increase.

Digital sport specialist PERFORM yesterday announced it will offer its sports news service, OMNISPORT, in five new languages. All video content, from January next year, will be available in Arabic, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games today unveiled its bid slogan, ‘Festival of Friendship’, which will form an integral part of a presentation to the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Acapulco.

The elected representatives of the city of Munich have voted 75-6 in favour of the draft candidature file for Munich's bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2018.

Sports agency MP & Silva has opened new offices in London and Munich as part of expansion plans in Western and Central Europe.

Siegfried Schneider, head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, reached an agreement on Saturday with Garmisch-Partenkirchen on the plan to secure the land required to stage the Munich 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

UEFA is to probe claims that its own anti-corruption investigators falsely alleged German Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich were suspected of match-fixing.

Swedish International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Gunilla Lindberg is to chair an 11-member commission to evaluate the three candidate cities for the 2018 Winter Olympics: Munich (Germany), Annecy (France) and PyeongChang (South Korea).

UEFA president Michel Platini has welcomed the decrease in player spending in Europe during the past transfer window. According to a study by Barcelona-based marketing company Prime Time Sport, the amount spent by clubs in the top five European leagues fell 29 per cent to €1.32 billion.

Willy Bogner has stepped down from his position as CEO of Munich’s Committee bidding to host the 2018 Winter Olympics under advice from his physician. The 68-year-old said he is fighting an undisclosed intestinal illness.

Munich’s bid to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2018 has welcomed six new corporate partners from the German business community.

German prosecutors in Bochum yesterday charged two people with fraud after claims they were part of a Europe-wide conspiracy to pay referees and players €350,000 to fix 24 football matches.

Sky Deutschland and Deutsche Telekom are in negotiations with the German Football League (DFL) about the possibility of broadcasting Bundesliga games in 3D.