DFB impose record penalties: Millions of millions for football clubs!

DFB impose record penalties: Millions of millions for football clubs!

The German Football Association (DFB) imposed fines of around 12.5 million euros against 56 clubs from the highest three leagues in the 2023/24 season. Almost 11 million euros account for the 36 professional clubs of the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. The punishments refer to both championship and cup games. The majority of the punishments result from pyrotechnic incidents in the stadium.

Eintracht Frankfurt received the highest punishment with 918,950 euros, followed by 1,1th FC Köln with 725,750 euros and 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which was punished with 673,100 euros. Hannover also received 96 609,940 euros, the Hamburger SV 520,800 euros and Hansa Rostock 519,280 euros. In the 3rd league, 1. FC Saarbrücken with 213,800 euros, closely followed by Waldhof Mannheim with 205,610 euros. The clubs may use part of the punishments for violence prevention measures. In fact, just under 8 million euros flowed to the DFB, with Eintracht Frankfurt 614,250 euros, the 1. FC Köln 489,180 euros and 1. FC Kaiserslautern transferred 455,600 euros.

penalties in the DFB Cup

In addition, the DFB sports court imposed a fine of 69,600 euros against Hamburger SV. This punishment is the result of pyrotechnic incidents in the HSV block during the DFB Cup round game against SV Meppen on August 18. Hallecher FC received a penalty of 30,000 euros on incidents in the game against FC St. Pauli on August 16, while TuS Koblenz had to pay 4,000 euros for similar incidents in the game against VfL Wolfsburg on August 19. All affected clubs may also use part of the penalties for security or violence prevention measures, such as "https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/sport/weltsport/dfbpokal/nach-dfb-pokal-geld-fuer-drei-3193645"> Westfalen-blatt .

The DFB uses the majority of punitive funds for non -profit purposes, with a total of 6 million euros flowed to foundations close to football in 2024 - over one million euros more than in the previous year, such as Aachener Zeitung determined.