German Football League (DFL)

Christian Seifert has signed an extended deal to continue as chief executive of the German Football League (DFL).

Exclusive interview with Christian Seifert, president of German football's DFL, on Fifa’s dysfunctional football family, maintaining the Bundesliga's social functions in a competitive global market, and why he’s using clichéd stereotypes about Germans to succeed in China.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund has posted an increase in revenue of more than €15m ($16.5m) for its 2014-15 financial year, despite a difficult season on the pitch, but has seen its net profit drop below a recent trend where this has exceeded €10m.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has reached an agreement to become the exclusive marketing partner of German Bundesliga football club Mainz 05.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund and Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) team Alba Berlin have launched a collaboration agreement.

Europe’s five biggest European leagues in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France generated a 15-per-cent increase in combined revenues to €11.3bn ($12.2bn) in the 2013-14 season, according to financial services company Deloitte’s annual review of football finances.

German Football League (DFL) chief executive Christian Seifert has further enhanced his powerbase following a restructuring of the organisation’s senior management.

The German Football League (DFL) has strengthened its defence against unwanted outside investment in clubs competing in its top two divisions by introducing restrictions on multiple ownership.

The European Club Association (ECA) and European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) have hit out at Fifa’s decision to recommend a November-December slot for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, with the former body calling for compensation for its clubs and the latter maintaining the move will cause “great damage” to the domestic game.

The German Bundesliga, the top division of football in the country, has posted record cumulative turnover of €2.45bn ($3bn) for the 2013-14 competition, extending the league’s financial growth into a 10th consecutive season.

Billionaire Dietmar Hopp’s majority control of German Bundesliga top-tier football club Hoffenheim has been approved by the DFL, the country’s football league.

Football clubs in Germany’s top-tier Bundesliga have voted to approve the use of goal-line technology (GLT) from the start of the 2015-16 season.

The English Premier League looks set for another bumper increase when it sells its domestic broadcast rights next year. But what strategies are currently being discussed to try and replicate that kind of increase in the other big four European football leagues? Frank Dunne, Editor of TV Sports Markets, asked the decision-makers in Spanish, French, German and Dutch football at last month’s SPORTELMonaco.

Borussia Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke expects the German Bundesliga football club to be debt free by the end of this year after it completed a €114m ($147m) capital increase on Wednesday.

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