German Football League (DFL)

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Industry Moves

Nina Tsimpouli has left her role as director of global content marketing at the DFL Digital Sports arm of the German Football League (DFL) to become head of sports operations in the DACH region for social…
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Industry Moves

Donata Hopfen has resigned as chief executive of the German Football League (DFL) after less than a year in the role
Football
Finance & Law

The German Football League (DFL), organising body of the top two divisions of the domestic game, has delayed talks over the potential sale of a stake in its media rights business to next year amid a lack…
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Industry Moves

Hendrik Weber has returned to the German Football League (DFL), organising body of the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, to head up a restructured sports technology and innovation department
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Media

German Football League (DFL) chief executive Donata Hopfen has called on the organisation to be “more ambitious” with its commercial targets and extract more value from its international media rights.
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Finance & Law

The German football league will begin a formal sales process for a sale of an equity stake in its media rights business at the end of October, with a view to wrapping up a deal in the first quarter next…
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Fan Engagement

The Deutsche Fußball Liga has signed an agreement with Football Sports Development Limited, organiser of the Indian Super League, to share best practices in areas including fan engagement, marketing and …
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Finance & Law

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Jim O’Connell, president of Athletes First Partners. Fisher and Russo also discuss RedBird Capital Partners’ sale of its stake in OneTeam Partners, the National Football League’s new collaboration agreement with the German Football League, Ares Management raising $3.7bn (€3.7bn) to invest in the sports industry, the pending sale of Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels, and ownership turbulence with the National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Suns.
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Governance

The National Football League and German Football League (DFL) have secured an agreement to collaborate in key business areas, with a particular focus on the United States and German markets
Football
Fan Engagement

German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) is to send a team of former players on a three-day tour of Vietnam as part of a promotional trip organised by the league’s media rights-holder in the country, N…
Football
Finance & Law

The German Football League (DFL), organising body of the top two divisions of the domestic game, is reported to have engaged financial services group Deutsche Bank to lead the potential sale of a stake…
Football
Events

Bayern Munich commercial executive Andreas Jung has called on the German Football League (DFL) to stage the German Super Cup abroad in order to increase the league’s international presence and commercial a…
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Finance & Law

The German Football League (DFL) is once again looking to sell a stake in its future broadcast rights and is preparing a tender designed to attract investment from private equity companies
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Industry Moves

Andreas Heyden has been appointed as chief executive of German streaming platform S Nation Media
Football
Industry Moves

Andreas Heyden, the chief executive of DFL Digital Sports, the subsidiary of the German Football League (DFL), is to leave his position at the end of this month
Football
Industry Moves

Peer Naubert has been named chief marketing officer at Bundesliga International, the international commercial rights sales arm of the German Football League (DFL)
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The German Football League (DFL) has announced that its total income from the awarding of licensing rights for stickers, trading cards and non-fungible tokens for the Bundesliga will reach in excess of…