Breathe in Hanover
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After the hickhack for ordering a new managing director, Hannover 96 submitted his licensing documents for the 2025/26 season to the German Football League on time. This was preceded by a long dispute between the capital side around the long -time managing director Martin Kind and the representatives of Hannover 96 eV
It was only on Sunday that Hannover 96 presented two new managing directors with Marcus Mann and Henning Bindzus. Both signed the documents on Monday.
13 clubs from 3rd league are sufficient for second division license
As the DFL announced immediately after the deadline, all 36 professional clubs in the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga caught the deadline. For a second division license, 13 clubs from the 3rd division submitted their documents. This period had already expired on March 1st.
“In the sense of an integral and fair competition, the DFL will check in the next step in addition to the financial criteria to determine the economic performance of the 49 clubs, also sporty, legal and personnel administrative criteria,” said the DFL.