Top Bundesliga game to be relocated: DFL with a secret plan!
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Will the top Bundesliga game take place in prime time soon? Allegedly, the DFL has a secret plan for how this scenario should look like.
So far, the top Bundesliga game has always been played on Saturday evenings at 6:30 p.m. But now the German Football League has developed a secret plan.
Bundesliga instead of Saturday evening show? The German Football League has drawn up a secret plan that will allow the top game in the first division to be played later. As the sports picture reported, the kick-off could not take place until 20:30 from 2025.
A workshop of the 18 Bundesliga clubs last week also dealt with the forthcoming sale of rights from the 2025/26 season. There, Steffen Merkel, DFL director of audiovisual rights, made this proposal to the clubs, which after sports picture-Information well received, submitted.
A game of the second Bundesliga is currently taking place there, which is broadcast on both the pay TV station sky as well as on free TV sports1 can be seen, but at a subsequent workshop of the second division teams there were no protests, since the second division could also benefit from additional income. However, the decisive factor will be how much money the broadcasters would pay for a Bundesliga game at prime time.
Two factors are probably decisive: on the one hand the quality of the games, on the other hand all 36 professional clubs must be convinced of the success of the new kick-off time so that it is not overturned again after a season. Because that happened before: in the 2000/01 season sky-Predecessor Premiere World a Bundesliga game at 8:15 p.m., but the ratings were too bad.
at sky one is open to the new idea: “As in the past, we will look at the tender as a whole and evaluate it for ourselves when the rights are awarded,” the TV broadcaster explained sports picture-Demand.
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