German Football

Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski has been named as Germany’s Player of the Year for the first time. The 32-year-old succeeds previous winner Marco Reus after receiving the majority support of journalists (276 selections) in a vote organized by kicker magazine. Manager of the Year went to former DFB sporting director …

Promoted English Premier League side Leeds United have announced the signing of Robin Koch from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg for an undisclosed fee. The 24-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Elland Road, running until the summer of 2024. The centre-back made his breakthrough with SV Eintracht Trier, before moving …

At the request of FC Bayern München, the Deutsche Fußball-Bund (DFB) has rescheduled the title-holders’ first round fixture to October 15, 2020 at 20:45 CEST. Their opponents, 1.FC Düren, have applied to have the match held in Munich. The game was originally scheduled for September 11. DFB vice-president Peter Frymuth …

The UEFA Referees Committee has announced that Esther Staubli will referee the 2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League final between VfL Wolfsburg and Olympique Lyonnais. The match will be played at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián on Sunday, August 30 at 20:00 CET. The 40-year-old Swiss, an international referee since …

In preparation for the next Extraordinary Members Assembly (Thursday, September 3), the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga has issued the 36 clubs in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 with the medical and hygiene-related occupational health and safety concept developed by the DFL’s and DFB’s ‘Sports Medicine/Special Match Operations Task Force’ for …

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has today, August 26 announced that Sport1 GmbH will be their new media partner, broadcasting the AFC Champions League for the 2021 and 2022 seasons in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As an established dedicated sports broadcaster, with a large distribution in the region, Sport1 will …

The VBL Club Championship is entering its third season with 26 participants. The eFootball competition organised by DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga in partnership with EA SPORTS has thus registered a record number of entrants for the 2020-21 season. Both of the previous seasons saw 22 clubs take part. The winner …

Germany head coach Joachim Löw has named his 22 player squad to face Spain (September 3, Stuttgart) and Switzerland (September 6, Basel) in the UEFA Nations League. Löw has called-up three debutants in goalkeeper Oliver Baumann, defender Robin Gosens and midfielder Florian Neuhaus. On the other side Löw has not …