Dortmund Fan Club London Podcast of the fan club founded in 2013
Sports:Football
Thank you for your interest in the BvB London fan community podcast, as every week the focus of the show will be on exploring a facet of football life with a focus on Borussia Dortmund by talking to experts, fans, and players and coaches.
People, including journalists, who make up the football world including decision makers and who know the football world and the world of BVB well.
The aim of the podcast is to make Borussia Dortmund, Bundesliga, and developments in international football accessible.
On today's English-language podcast our guests are David Hellier, a journalist at Bloomberg who leads the channels coverage of sport and football business who features regularly on Bloomberg TV and is the former editor of City AM.
The second guest is Mark Meehan a Chelsea season ticket-holder for over 30 years, author of the book: 'Blue Tomorrow' on the Ken Bates era at Chelsea (1982-2003), and is the Chairman of the Chelsea Supporters Trust, and is a member of the club's advisory trust.
The aim of the show is to look at what's going with Investments into football clubs, fans stakes and what impact this can have on the German 50+1 model.
The holding company of the Bundesliga, the DFL, decided on Thursday, following an ongoing wave of protests by fans, to drop the plan to sell a stake in the media rights to an outside investor.
The sale of media rights was carried out by La Liga and Ligue 1 which raised a short-term cash injection but two years after the pandemic many clubs in the leagues are back in financial difficulty.
Many observers argue that had this gone ahead in Germany it would have benefitted the league very little in the long run.
The fans in the Bundesliga have shown by their actions their commitment to the 50+1 rule which limits outside investors and protects the rights of members to have a say in the way clubs are run.
In the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2, thanks to the 50+1 rule, which ensure that members retain the majority stake in football clubs, the situation is different. Following Hoffenheim's change of ownership in November, fans now retain a controlling influence in all but three clubs; VfL Wolfsburg, RB Leipzig and Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Football clubs however are increasingly coming under the control of investment funds, including state-backed funds, and football has long been a desirable cash-generating, if not always profitable, asset.
Investment by high-net-worth individuals, and corporations in football, in particular in the Premier League has risen sharply. Now only one English top tier club, newly promoted Luton Town, remains fan-owned.
In the 22/23 season investors increased their stakes in German clubs. David Blitzer's 'Bolt investment holdings' into FC Augsburg, and 777 Partners investment into Hertha Berlin in particular are notable.
The stake of fans, in particular in England, has been reduced significantly in recent years, so what insights can be gained from the German fans lead?
The topics:
What impact would a sale in media rights have on the 50+1 model in German football?
How is the investment by funds, including venture capital funds and multi-club owners changing the wider football landscape?
In which way does the English club ownership model contrast with the 50+1 model of membership in Germany?
What does the new record £6.7bn Premier League media deal with Sky and TNT mean for the competition like the Bundesliga?
What has been the Premier League's contrasting financial fortunes with those of Bundesliga clubs been since the pandemic?
What has La Liga's experience experience with selling a share in their media rights to CVC been since 2021?
Plus why is the Bundesliga's member ownership a model for football?
And what is the fan experience of being a member in a Bundesliga club i.e BVB? And what are organised fans in Germany's main concerns about the rights sale?
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Apologies for the sound issues at the start of the podcast which were down to an unavoidable technical difficulty.
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Episode 29 German language episode ’Belief in Borussia’ - guest Pastor Karsten Haug, Holy Trinity Church Borsigplatz, Dortmund the founder church of BVB in 1909.
Episode 28 Has European Super league gone rigor mortis? With guests Maccabi Tel Aviv FC Goalkeeper coach Dennis Gentenaar (BVB 05/06) and Colin Farmery (When Saturday Comes)
Episode 27 German language episode - A goalkeeper for BVB but whom? With guests VFL Osnabrück Goalkeeper coach Rolf Meyer (BVB reserve keeper 1981-91) and Horst Bertram (BVB goalkeeper 1971-83).
Episode 26 UCL preview with Dave Mooney of Manchester City podcast 'Blue Moon' and special guest former BVB (1990-94) and Manchester City (1994/95) midfielder Steffen Karl
Episode 25 Say it with flowers - Welcome Marco Rose with Sascha Staat of Ruhrnachrichten newspaper
Episode 24 The Champions League is back! UCL preview with guest Vinny Samways former FC Sevilla (2002/3) and Everton (1994-96) and Tottenham Hotspurs (1986-94) midfielder.
Episode 23 Good Afternoon Herr Oberbürgermeister - Guest Ulli Sierau Mayor of Dortmund 2009-2020
German language episode 22 Happy 111th Birthday BVB Interview mit Wilfried Schiffer BVB Dauerkarteninhaber seit den 60er Jahre.
Episode 21 with guest Bert van Marwijk ”I dreamt of playing on the other side of the river” BVB head-coach 2004-6, current UEA headcoach
German language episode - Episode 20 ’Roberto Baggio war nicht zu stoppen’ - Gast Mittelfeldspieler Steffen Karl (BVB 1990-94)
Episode 19 ’I only played for big clubs’ with guest Philip Degen BVB defender 2005-8 (Bonus show with the Blood Red Liverpool FC Podcast)
German language Episode 18 - Gast Mittelstürmer Bernd Klotz (BVB 81-84) ’Dortmund war damals ein anderer Klub’
German Language Episode Ep. 17 - Mittelstürmer Will 'Ente' Lippens (BVB 1975-79) 'Ohne Fans ist es Kacke"
Episode 16 ’The Sammer years’ The Centreback former Norway international Andre Bergdølmo (BVB 2003-05)
Episode 15 Fan Kultur - Premier League v Bundesliga fan culture
Episode 14 The TV Presenter: Guest Raphael Honigstein - The season preview, let’s talk Borussia’s Bayern challenge..
Episode 13 ’German football governance is a sustainable model for wider football’ guest Chief Executive Duncan Fraser of Aberdeen FC
Episode 12 ’The Million Deutschmark man’ A Striker’s story England hero special guest Tony Woodcock (Active 1974-90)
Episode 11 ’The flying dutchman’ The Goalkeeper: Guest Dennis Gentenaar BVB reserve keeper (05/06)
Episode 10 Borussia Dortmund London Fan Club Podcast 1.FC Kaiserslautern bust, seriously?! With Nik Wildhagen of Talking Fussball Podcast.
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