Deutsche Fußball Liga

The League - Football Association eV (usually referred to simply as the League Association ) is an association of German professional football clubs ( or their companies) and represents their interests - especially against the German Football Association ( DFB).

Since 1 July 2001, the League Association or the DFL held the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga Men.

• 2.1 Tasks of the DFL

Terms of Use

The League Association is a full member of the DFB since 2001. The relationships between DFB and DFL and its joint operation with its subsidiary DFL is governed by the following legal documents:

• Statute of the DFB
• Basic Treaty between DFB and DFL
• Statute of the League Association

Basic Treaty

Since DFB and DFL host the competitions of the Bundesliga in common, since the beginning of the season 2004/2005 applies a basic treaty which determines the rights and obligations of both parties. In particular, he granted the League Association the right to organize the DFB belonging to club facilities Bundesliga and 2. In addition, he speaks the Association to the full marketing rights to the national leagues. Not regulated in the Master Agreement are the competitions that can be autonomously organized by the League Association (such as the DFL - League Cup and the former Indoor Championships ).

In addition, the Master Agreement includes specific fixations regarding kick-off times and transmission of summaries on free TV.

The basic contract was terminated for the first time in 2012 by both the DFB and the League Association.

DFL German Football League

The League Association has Liga GmbH ( DFL) transferred its entire business operations of its wholly owned subsidiary DFL German Football; However, its Board of Directors is in personal union and the supervisory board of the DFL.

The DFL was founded on 18 December 2000 as an independent corporation. Since then, the sole member of the DFL is the League Association, which has provided the capital stock in the amount of 1 million euros.

Responsibilities of DFL

The DFL itself divides its operations in the areas of gaming operations, licensing and marketing. The division " game mode" include the management of the gaming operation of the professional leagues and the implementation of other competitions of the League Association in particular.

The business 'marketing' includes the award of broadcasting rights for the professional leagues in television, radio and the Internet.

The third division ( "License ") is an implementation and development of the former DFB licensing process. The DFL shall follow the procedures for the clubs in the Bundesliga and 2 as well as by business contract for the clubs in the Regionalliga. It checks the league, how the individual clubs meet the requirements to participate in a professional football competition. To request catalog include sporting, financial, legal, infrastructure, personnel, administrative, media technical and safety criteria. Greatest importance is the financial test of liquidity; thus it should be ensured that all the clubs of each league have a sufficient until the end of the season liquidity to be maintained as long as the operation of gambling can.

Organs

Organs of the DFL are the shareholders' meeting, the directors and the supervisory board. The President of the League Association is a member of the Governing Board and the Executive Board of the DFB.

First president of the League Association until his death in January 2007, Werner Hackmann from the Board of HSV. Until the election of the current president Rauball in August 2007 Wolfgang wooden houses of Bayer 04 Leverkusen held the position as acting.