Dispute over TV rights
DFL to clubs about the dispute with DAZN: “Abstruse claim”
The German Football League has contacted the clubs in a dispute with the streaming service DAZN. photo
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The Bundesliga is in a heated argument with DAZN over the TV rights auction. In letters to the clubs, the DFL makes serious allegations and writes about missing payments.
In the billion dollar dispute with DAZN German Football League (DFL) sent two letters to the 36 professional clubs. In one she is preparing the clubs for lower TV payments, in the other she is again making serious allegations against the internet sports channel.
“DAZN is once again deliberately misrepresenting facts both in its most recent letters to the DFL and in public statements, making abbreviations and attempting to mislead the public,” writes the DFL management in circular no German press agency available. Circular 206, which was sent later, states that 80 million euros from the current TV contract are not being paid out as planned.
Dispute over the rights package B
DAZN’s actions with the threat of legal action “seem to primarily serve one goal: to drive a wedge into the league and to sow doubts that the people in the committees and management act exclusively in the interests of the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga “, it continues.
The global media company had announced that it would take the dispute with the DFL over rights package B to court; according to the DFL circular, the arbitration claim should be submitted on Tuesday. According to dpa information, the internet sports broadcaster also intends to withdraw completely from the Bundesliga TV broadcast if it does not receive package B. It is the largest package with the matches on Saturday at 3.30 p.m. and on Friday evening as well as the relegation games. This package includes a total of 196 live games.
The sales process for the audiovisual media rights of the Bundesliga was interrupted the previous week. The lack of a bank guarantee from DAZN was controversial.