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Florian Wirtz from unbeaten champions Bayer Leverkusen has been elected Bundesliga Player of the Season 2023-24 in a poll conducted by the German Football League (DFL). The DFL said on Monday that the 21-year-old playmaker Wirtz won ahead of Serhou Guirassy and Deniz Undav from league runners-up VfB Stuttgart, and Leverkusen team-mates Victor Boniface and Alejandro Grimaldo. Eligible for the season vote were all winners of the DFL Player of the Month awards. Wirtz was the only player to win this ballot three times, in October, December and February. It is the first award of such a kind for Wir...
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Streaming service DAZN made new accusations against the German Football League (DFL) amid their dispute over delayed payments and the negotiations for the Bundesliga broadcasting rights for 2025-2029. "The credibility of DAZN as a trustworthy business partner has been massively discredited by the behaviour and statements of the DFL management over the past two weeks," DAZN boss Shay Segev said on Sunday in a letter to the 36 DFL clubs, which was available to dpa. The DFL statements give "the impression that DAZN has deliberately caused a massive default in payment to the 36 Bundesliga and seco...
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Streaming service DAZN made new accusations against the German Football League (DFL) amid their dispute over delayed payments and the negotiations for the Bundesliga broadcasting rights for 2025-2029. "The credibility of DAZN as a trustworthy business partner has been massively discredited by the behaviour and statements of the DFL management over the past two weeks," DAZN boss Shay Segev said on Sunday in a letter to the 36 DFL clubs, which was available to dpa. The DFL statements give "the impression that DAZN has deliberately caused a massive default in payment to the 36 Bundesliga and seco...
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Amid the Bundesliga broadcasting rights dispute with streaming service DAZN, the German Football League (DFL) told its 36 professional clubs that they are to receive less money than planned from the media rights income. "The instalment for June 2024 will be reduced from the original €127 million ($135.8 million) to €47 million," reads a DFL letter to the clubs, which was made available to dpa. The reason for that is the fact that €80 million from the current broadcasting rights deal was not received on the contractual due dates, the DFL said. According to the Bild newspaper, DAZN, who's curren...
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Hanover managing director Martin Kind has no plans to take legal action against the 50+1 rule in German football which prevents takeovers by external investors. Kind, who turns 80 on Sunday, had in the past tried in vain to get an exemption based on his long-time investment in the northern German club which is in the second division. He has now called for a reform of the 50+1 rule under which the club keeps the majority of shares. "I'm not a friend of a lawsuit. It would create new issues," hearing aid and optician entrepreneur Kind told dpa. "Even if lawyers create new models, they can't prev...
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The German Football League (DFL) on Thursday dismissed accusations from streaming portal DAZN in connection with the sale of broadcast rights 2025-2929 which have been suspended as a result. "The DFL has not made any formal errors in the ongoing auction process. DAZN's accusations are unfounded and are rejected by the DFL," the league said in a statement. DAZN sent a letter to DFL managing directors Marc Lenz and Steffen Merkel as well as the 36 clubs on Wednesday, accusing the DFL of demanding a bank guarantee within 24 hours which was impossible. It said that like in the past it had submitte...
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The German Football League (DFL) has suspended the sales process for Bundesliga broadcasting rights from the 2025-26 season after a complaint from broadcasters DAZN. The streaming platform sent a letter to DFL managing directors Marc Lenz and Steffen Merkel as well as the clubs on Wednesday and raised serious accusations. The clubs were informed by the DFL about the suspension, while a spokesperson said: "The DFL rejects the allegations in the clearest possible terms." The DFL started this week the negotiations for the Bundesliga broadcasting rights for the period between 2025-26 and 2028-29. ...
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Bayer Leverkusen won't immediately receive the Bundesliga trophy if they clinch their maiden league title at the weekend. According to the German Football League (DFL), the the club led by coach Xabi Alonso will be awarded the trophy in case of a successful title race in the final matchday of the season, as per tradition. If a champion has not yet been crowned before matchday 34 on May 18, the original trophy will be taken to the stadium where the league leader is playing. But all signs point to an early Leverkusen triumph this season as they have a 16-point advantage over second-placed Bayern...
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The 36 Bundesliga and second division clubs have left the coronavirus crisis behind and generated record revenue of €5.24 billlion ($5.7 billion) in the 2022-23 season, the German Football League (DFL) said on Tuesday. The DFL said in its financial report the figure was a 9% increase from the previous record of €4.8 billion from 2018-19, the last season before pandemic related restrictions led to lower figures. The DFL said that 23 of the 36 clubs made a profit and the overall profit was €42.1 million. But clubs also spent like never before in salaries for players and coaches, up 10.1% or €148...
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German Football League (DFL) top official Hans-Joachim Watzke has said that the recent fan protests against a DFL investor have been a learning experience for him. "For me, it was a learning curve that even fans of clubs that already have investors on board took such a massive stand against an investor who might have had a 7.5% stake in a subsidiary," Watzke told streaming portal DAZN in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. The DFL last month stopped talks to recruit a strategic partner, citing legal reasons in connection with a December vote by the 36 Bundesliga and second tier clubs, and ami...
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