German Bundesliga fans are not happy about a recent deal for the German Football League (DFL) to sell a piece of their TV and marketing rights. The Bundesliga and the rest of the German federation were selling 8% of these rights as a private equity investment. The deal will last for up to 20 years. […]

ESPN holds the English and Spanish TV rights in the United States to the Bundesliga through the 2025/26 season. The historic six-year deal streams every game in the German top flight on ESPN+. Then, there are select games available on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2. ESPN wants to continue this deal beyond the 2025/26 campaign. ESPN […]

The Deutsche Football League, along with Amazon Web Services, announced two new match statistics for upcoming Bundesliga games. The stats join the league's Bundesliga Match Facts portfolio. This gives television viewers incredible insight in specialized area of play. Introduced in 2020, Bundesliga Match Facts provides innovative statistics in essentially real-time speed. The software collects 3.6 […]

Earlier this year the Ligapokal was cancelled due to fixture congestion in the aftermath of Euro '08, but was expected to return bigger and better. Understandable, if unfortunate. Now according to kicker the old men at the DFL* have already cancelled the 2009 edition of the competition. The reasoning behind the move? According to DFL […]