High losses at BVB & Hertha: DFL publishes financial figures 20/21

9 out of 36 clubs made a profit

The German Football League (DFL) has the key financial figures of all 36 professional clubs from the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 for the 2020/21 season, which is characterized by corona released. Hertha BSC (77.9 million euros) and Borussia Dortmund (72.8 million euros) made the largest after-tax loss from the German elite league – in addition to FC Bayern Munich, the two clubs with the largest stadium capacity.

Overall, 15 of the 18 clubs playing in the Bundesliga next season have a negative result. Only SC Freiburg (9.8 million euros), RB Leipzig (3.7 million euros) and FC Bayern (2.3 million euros) achieved a positive result. Six clubs from the future second division managed to do this: Holstein Kiel, which last year reached the semi-finals of the cup and the promotion relegation, this year’s promoted team 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Jahn Regensburg, SV Darmstadt 98, 1. FC Heidenheim and SV Sandhausen. At Heidenheim and Sandhausen, the calendar year 2021 was accounted for.

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Transfer fee and market value, including free transfers, are taken into account in this gallery. The higher number is decisive for the ranking.
(as of May 26, 2022)

Maxim Leitsch – VfL Bochum -> Mainz 05 – market value: €5m

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Transfer fee: €3 million

Arne Maier – Hertha BSC -> FC Augsburg – fee: €5m

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Market value: €5m – after loan

Jamie Leweling – Greuther Fürth -> Union Berlin – market value: €5.5M

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Transfer fee: €4 million

Grischa Prömel – Union Berlin -> TSG Hoffenheim – market value: €5.5M

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Free transfer

Dominik Kohr – Eintracht Frankfurt -> Mainz 05 – market value: €6m

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Transfer fee: €3m – after loan

Anthony Caci – Racing Strasbourg -> Mainz 05 – market value: €6m

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Free transfer

Salih Özcan – 1. FC Köln -> BVB – market value: €7M

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Transfer fee: €5 million

Amos Pieper – Poor. Bielefeld -> Werder Bremen – market value: €7m

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Free transfer

Niklas Stark – leaves Hertha BSC – market value: €7.5m

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Free transfer

Patrick Wimmer – Arminia -> VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €8M

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Transfer fee: €4.1 million

Jakub Kaminski – Lech Poznan -> VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €10M

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Transfer fee: €10 million

John Anthony Brooks – leaves VfL Wolfsburg – market value: €12m

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Free transfer

Randal Kolo Muani – Nantes -> Eintracht Frankfurt – market value: €15M

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Free transfer

Jeremiah St. Juste – Mainz -> Sporting – market value: €16M

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Transfer fee: €10 million

Florian Grillitsch – leaves Hoffenheim – market value: €16m

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Free transfer

Hee-chan Hwang – RB Leipzig -> Wolves – fee: €16.7M

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Market value: €13m – after loan

Noussair Mazraoui – Ajax -> FC Bayern – market value: €20M

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Free transfer

Matthias Ginter – Gladbach -> SC Freiburg – market value: €24M

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Free transfer

Nico Schlotterbeck – Freiburg -> BVB – market value: €28m

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Transfer fee: €20 million

Niklas Süle – FC Bayern -> BVB – market value: €35m

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Free transfer

Karim Adeyemi – RB Salzburg -> BVB – market value: €35m

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Transfer fee: €30 million

Erling Haaland – BVB -> Man City – market value: €150m

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Transfer fee: €75 million

DFL boss Donata Hopfen had already spoken in February in the economic report for 2019/20 and 2020/21 of an “unprecedented turning point” due to the pandemic: “The time of almost normal growth seems to be over. There is no doubt that this will have a massive impact on our development over the next few years. Corona has already had drastic economic effects on the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 in the past two years. Unfortunately, this also applies to the current season – above all because the grandstands often had to remain empty again.”

Since most matches had to take place in the stadiums without fans, the gaming revenue in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga alone, which mainly comes from ticket income, fell by around 95 percent compared to the last pre-pandemic season. The total revenue of the 36 professional clubs fell to 4.05 billion euros in 2020/21, 1.3 billion euros were paid in taxes. Due to the “geopolitically increasingly uncertain situation” it is to be expected that the income from German-language media rights in 2021/22 will be lower than in previous years.

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