Bundesliga clubs release investor information

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Alex Mott·1 March 2018

Bundesliga clubs release investor information

Bundesliga clubs have today revealed how much of their shares they have sold to outside investors over the past 12 months.

12 out of the 18 clubs in Germany’s top division have brought in investment from ‘strategic partners’ with Cologne, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Schalke, Mainz, Freiburg and Werder Bremen the only clubs not to so far.

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100 per cent of the shares available at Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg have been sold, with Bayer AG and Volkswagen the financiers. Whilst at RB Leipizg 99 per cent of those shares available have gone to Red Bull.

Long-time back Dietmar Hopp has bought 96 per cent at Hoffenheim and with Bayern just 25 per cent have been taken by outside investment from adidas, Allianz and Telekom.

As German teams are publicly listed companies, they have to release this information at the end of every financial year.