All 36 applicants that qualify on the basis of sporting performance are receiving a licence to participate in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the upcoming 2021–22 season. In the licensing process, financial, sporting, legal, staffing, administrative, infrastructural and media-related criteria were examined in accordance with the licensing regulations of …
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What is the Sports Medicine / Special Match Operations Task Force’s take on the recently completed 2020-21 season? Prof. Dr. Tim Meyer (Head of the task force) and Ansgar Schwenken (Member of the DFL Management Board, Director of Football Affairs & Supporters) give us their thoughts: Professor Meyer, Mr Schwenken, …
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The German DFL Supercup 2021 will take place on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. The match between the Bundesliga champion and the winner of the German DFB-Pokal will see FC Bayern München take on Borussia Dortmund. It will be played at Dortmund’s SIGNAL IDUNA PARK with kick-off at 8:30pm CEST. The …
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‘Liga founds own TV production company’ – that was the heading of a press release published by the DFL one Friday in April 2006. The wholly owned subsidiary would produce the images from the matches in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 and make them available to television partners from the …
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The placement of one or more stars on a club’s shirt is intended to emphasise the extraordinary significance of the club having won multiple Bundesliga titles. The first milestone is reached when a club wins its third Bundesliga title. From then on, a star may be worn on the shirt …
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Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, has agreed an additional two-cycle deal with Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) for the rights to broadcast the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 in the Netherlands from the start of the 2021-22 season. The deal will run until the conclusion of …
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This Wednesday, an extraordinary session of the Members Assembly of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga considered investor offers for a minority interest in a subsidiary of DFL GmbH. Previously, especially in the last year and a half, the DFL had been contacted by various private equity firms expressing interest in a …
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Network4 will be the new home of the Bundesliga in Hungary after the broadcaster agreed a four-year deal with Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga. The partnership will ensure Network4 has exclusive rights to deliver live coverage of more than 300 matches per season from the Bundesliga …
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Over the past 15 years DFL has created a comprehensive archive of video recordings of German professional football matches – the world’s largest digital archive of its kind. This initiative helps to provide all of DFL’s national and international media partners with fast and easy access to these materials. In …
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DERBYSTAR today unveiled the official match ball of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the upcoming 2021-22 season. As in the current season, the company based in Goch in the Lower Rhine region has opted to continue with a design that features two striking colours – this time dark blue …
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