Continuous and solid growth remains to be the trademark of the Deutsche Fußball-Bund, the German Football Association. At the annual budget press conference, DFB Treasurer Horst R. Schmidt announced that the 2008 budget reaches 80 million Euros.
"We enjoy a healthy economic basis. This relative prosperity gives us the opportunity to resume projects started in the past, but also to finance efforts in new areas of activity. The DFB General Assembly had ratified our budgetary plans for 2008 to 2010. We will invest in football grassroots, and we will lay the groundworks to create optimum structures for the 6.5 million DFB members organised in our clubs and our regional federations."
The 2006 budget included revenues of 79 million Euro. The result was almost copied in 2007 with an income of 78,8 million Euros.
Here are the facts and figures for the 2006 and 2007 budgets:
2006
- 38.5 million Euros business revenues (ticket sales, TV and marketing revenues, DFB share of World Cup profits after taxes)
- 16.1 million Euros wealth management (perimeter advertising, interest income, rental income)
- 17.9 million Euros from the DFL
- 6.5 million Euros from DFB Cup, membership fees, benefits FIFA and UEFA
2007
- 28.4 million Euros business revenues
- 24.4 million Euros wealth management
- 19.7 million Euros from the DFL
- 6.3 million Euros DFB-Cup, membership fees, benefits
Money spend for the facilitation of talents, the support of the regional federations, material costs as well as salaries and wages at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt and the statutory reserve combine for the expenditures. Adding up 2006 and 2007, the DFB transferred 30.8 million Euros to the regional federations. 16.6 million Euros were spent for the good of the youth programmes and the support of schools focusing their curriculum on football.
