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Deutsche Fußball Liga The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH, or simply Deutsche Fußball Liga ("German Football League"), and often shortened to DFL, is a wholly owned subsidiary of ''Die Liga – Fußballverband''. The DFL is responsible for entire operating business o ...

, website = The DFL Foundation (german: DFL Stiftung) is a charitable foundation dedicated to social projects. It was founded in January 2009 by the

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, under the name Bundesliga Foundation (german: Bundesliga-Stiftung). It is based in

, and the current CEO is Stefan Kiefer.

Purpose of the foundation

The DFL Foundation aims to use the popularity of German professional football and the

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to promote and support social projects. In addition to the commitment of individual professional footballers who have established their own foundations of this kind (for example

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with the ''Christoph Metzelder Foundation'' or

Manuel Neuer Manuel Peter Neuer (; born 27 March 1986) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper and captains both club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of the ...

with his ''Manuel Neuer Kids Foundation'') and the foundations of Bundesliga clubs (such as the foundation 1. FC Köln) or foundation from the German Football Association (German: ''Deutscher Fussball-Bund'', DFB), the ''DFB-Kulturstiftung'' (DFB cultural Foundation), the foundation of the Bundesliga is, according to its statues, to promote the sport, education and international understanding. From this emerged four areas of focus: the foundation encourages children, supports people with disabilities, supports integration and promotes solidarity with other sports. The foundation provides grants through application, but can also carry out their own projects and build partnerships.

Campaigns

In cooperation with the DFL, the most publicly successful campaign ''Sportler für Sportler'' (Athletes for Athletes) was developed in the spring of 2009. Through until 2010, TV commercials were broadcast in which well-known players and coaches from the Bundesliga and Olympic athletes from various sports, were shown asking for mutual support and calling on donations to the German Sports Aid. The DFL Foundation also sponsors the junior elite support of the ''Deutsche Sporthilfe'' (German Sports Aid). In July 2011, with the DFL-Supercup, the current major campaign started entitled ''Integration. Gelingt spielend.'' Through which nationwide advertising was made for the support of the integration of those with foreign origins. The football serves as a connecting element. Focus of the campaign, as for the ''Sportler für Sportler'' was a TV commercial with talented young players of the under-17 and under-19 teams and the Bundesliga players

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Mario Götze Mario Götze (born 3 June 1992) is a German professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Germany national team. Although his favoured position is that of a playmaker, Götze has also played as a false ni ...

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and Sidney Sam. The music of the commercial was produced by Wolfgang Niedecken, singer of the band

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. In addition, dozens of smaller projects and campaigns from all four key working areas were promoted in recent years.

Capital resources and use

Main source of income of the foundation are the fines paid by the Bundesliga clubs for breach of licensing documents. Furthermore, funds flow into the foundation from fines pronounced by the DFB Sports Court.

Bodies of the foundation

Executive board

* Stefan Kiefer (Chairman) * Kurt Gaugler (Deputy Chairman) * Jörg Degenhart

Foundation board

Reinhard Rauball Reinhard Rauball (born 25 December 1946) is a German politician, member of the SPD, a trained lawyer, and football official. He is known for having served as president of football team Borussia Dortmund several times and also served very briefly ...

(Chairman) *

Christian Seifert Christian Seifert (born 8 May 1969, in Rastatt) is a German entrepreneur and business manager who served as a CEO of the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL) from 2019 to 2021. He was a member of the League Board and Vice President of the German Football ...

(Deputy Chairman) * Harald Strutz * Peter Peters * Wolfgang Niersbach

Trustees

Fritz Pleitgen Fritz Ferdinand Pleitgen (21 March 1938 – 15 September 2022) was a German television journalist and author. He was correspondent in Moscow, East Berlin and Washington. Pleitgen was a supporter of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. In 1988, Pleitgen b ...

(Chairman) *

Klaus-Peter Müller Klaus-Peter Müller (born 16 September 1944 in Duppach, Germany) was chairman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank until the annual general meeting on 8 May 2018. Career Klaus-Peter Müller is the son of Peter Müller, a former voluntary ...

(Deputy Chairman) * Tom Bender *

Heiner Brand Heiner Brand (born 26 July 1952 in Gummersbach) is a former West German handball player. He was the Germany men's national handball team coach from 1997 to 2011. He is the only person who has won the world handball championship both as a player ...

Eberhard Gienger Eberhard Gienger (; born 21 July 1951) is a German politician ( CDU) and former West German gymnast. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in the latter. Gymnastics career During his gymnastics career from 1971 to 1 ...

* Britta Heidemann *

Eckart von Hirschhausen Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 25 August 1967) is a German physician, talk show host and comedian. Academic career Born in Frankfurt, von Hirschhausen studied medicine, supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (G ...

* Maria Höfl-Riesch * Klaus Kinkel * Werner E. Klatten *

Joachim Król Joachim Król (, born 17 June 1957 in Herne, West Germany) is a German actor, known for his appearances in the films '' Run Lola Run'', '' Maybe, Maybe Not'', and '' Anne Frank: The Whole Story''. Early life and education Król was born in H ...

Peter Lohmeyer Peter Lohmeyer (born 22 January 1962 in Niedermarsberg) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1980. Life and career Lohmeyer is the youngest of three children of the Protestant pastor Dieter Lohmeyer and his wi ...

Peter Maffay Peter Alexander Makkay (born 30 August 1949), known as Peter Maffay (), is a Romanian-born German musician, singer, and composer. Early life Born in Braşov (german: link=no, Kronstadt), Romania, the son of a German ( Transylvanian Saxon), ...

* Wolfgang Niedecken *

Gerhard Schröder Gerhard Fritz Kurt "Gerd" Schröder (; born 7 April 1944) is a German lobbyist and former politician, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germa ...

Matthias Steiner Matthias Steiner (; born 25 August 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Champions ...

Edmund Stoiber Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician who served as the 16th Minister President of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he r ...

* Günter Weigl

Former members

* Herbert Hainer * Roland Kentsch *

Steffi Jones Stephanie Ann Jones (born 22 December 1972) is a German-American football manager and former player who last managed the German women's national team. As a defender, she earned 111 caps for the national team between 1993 and 2007, helping her c ...

Günter Netzer Günter Theodor Netzer (born 14 September 1944) is a German former professional football player, executive and pundit. He achieved great success in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the early 1970s and, after moving to Spain in 1973, w ...

Wilfried Straub Wilfried Straub (26 March 1939 – 2 May 2016) was a German football official. He was vice president of the German Football Association (german: Deutscher Fuball-Bund, DFB) and until May 2005 Chief Executive Officer of the Deutsche Fußball Liga ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dfl Foundation Sports organisations of Germany 2009 establishments in Germany