With the 2025/26 Bundesliga season about to kick off, you might be wondering how you can take part in Germany's favourite pastime at home. Here are the key changes to how Bundesliga soccer games are being aired on TV.
A final wave of tickets for the European Football Championship 2024 will be released Thursday. In previous phases, demand for tickets massively exceeded supply. Now fans have a final chance, if they're quick.
For years, the number of students in Britain learning foreign languages has been decreasing, with German classes seeing a particularly dramatic decline. But now the government in London is aiming to reverse this trend, partly due to the consequences of Brexit.
Unvaccinated Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich is one of five players in Germany's national football squad having to quarantine after one tested positive for coronavirus, the German federation (DFB) said Tuesday.
Many football-loving expats find themselves baffled by the variety and number of German football teams to choose from. We’re confident though that you’ll be able to align yourself with at least one of the five teams listed here.
Germany's government announced on Tuesday it will allow England, Scotland and Wales to enter the country without quarantine to play at Euro 2020 despite a recent rise in cases linked to the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Britain.
Bayern Munich boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
insists the German giants are eager to stop Thursday's UEFA Super Cup showdown
in Budapest turning into a super spreader event due to a high infection rate
of the coronavirus there.
Bavarian state premier Markus Söder said
Monday he was getting a "stomach ache" over fears that this week's UEFA Super
Cup final in Hungary could become the next coronavirus superspreader event.
Bayern Munich, who face Lyon in a Champions League semi-final on Wednesday, have fired a coach from their youth
academy amid a police investigation into allegations of racism.
Bundesliga clubs had their hopes dampened on
Monday of a partial return of football fans in stadiums when the new league
season kicks off in Germany on September 18th.
Football clubs in Germany's top two divisions on Tuesday agreed to plans drawn up by the league which could allow the partial return of fans to stadiums from mid-September, despite the coronavirus
pandemic.
When Christian Seifert, chief executive of the German Football League (DFL), hands the Bundesliga trophy to Bayern Munich on Saturday, his gamble to restart football in Germany despite the coronavirus pandemic will have paid off.
The German Football League (DFL) has fined Union Berlin and two players over an impromptu party with fans in the club's stadium car park after their Bundesliga survival was confirmed in mid-week.
Bayern Munich's Germany defender Jerome
Boateng has called on more famous white sportspeople to add their voices to
the chorus of outrage at the US police killing of George Floyd.
FIFA has called on leagues to use "common
sense" when deciding whether to discipline footballers for displaying
political messages after several players in the German Bundesliga called for
justice for George Floyd during matches.
The Bundesliga drew bumper global audiences
for its restart at the weekend behind closed doors, but a top league official
said the players will be reminded to maintain social distancing even during
goal celebrations.
The Bundesliga returns on Saturday in empty stadiums, but German fans are being warned to stay away and authorities have warned matches could be halted if too many supporters gather outside the grounds.
Dynamo Dresden placed their entire squad into a 14-day quarantine on Saturday, just a week from the restart of the Bundesliga season, after the club reported two more cases of coronavirus.
The government plans to allow Germany's Bundesliga to restart behind closed doors in May after weeks of shutdown imposed to control the spread of the coronavirus.
German football authorities are set to
announce plans on Thursday for Bundesliga matches to restart on May 9th in empty stadiums, but the potential return in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is
meeting some opposition.
A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic means that nobody can say with any certainty when the sport might return.
Borussia Mönchengladbach's squad have offered to give up their wages to help the club's financial situation during the coronavirus pandemic, sporting director Max Eberl said on Thursday.
