License in danger?
Traditional club wants emergency managing director
03.03.2025 – 7:11 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
At Hannover 96 it crunches again huge behind the scenes. The club still has no managing director. Time is pushing.
In the dispute over the occupation of the vacant managing director’s post at Hannover 96, the shareholders around the long-time club boss Martin Kind submitted an application to the district court of Hanover. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the district court. First the “picture” reported about it.
The background is that the second division soccer team will have to submit its license for the coming season at the German Football League (DFL).
According to the DFL license code, the “written application by the applicant’s authorized application” must be signed. Unlike a managing director, a authorized representative like the current sports director Marcus Mann, who recently described the state as “unbearable”, does not meet this in a corporation like Hannover 96 GmbH & Co. KGAA.
The big problem is also the ongoing dispute between the mother club and the outsourced professional football society. Since the dismissal of the long -time managing director and majority shareholder Martin Kind, both sides have not yet been able to agree on the appeal from one or two new managing directors in the past eight months.