Germany: "I intend to leave the company when my contract expires in June 2022" (C. Seifert, DFL)

"These are demanding times and they call for clarity and reliability. That applies both to DFL as a whole and to my own professional ambitions. For this reason, I have informed the chairman of the supervisory board of DFL GmbH of my intention to leave the company when my contract expires in June 2022," announced Christian Seifert, CEO and spokesperson for the German league, on 26/10/2020.

"It is important to make my decision known now (20 months ahead of the deadline), so that the supervisory board have ample time to take account of it in their future organizational planning for DFL GmbH," explained Christian Seifert who joined the German League in July 2005.

"Christian Seifert has done outstanding work for more than 15 years and has thus made a significant contribution to the success of the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga," said Peter Peters, chairman of the DFL supervisory board, on 26/10/2020.

"I have been able to play an active role in steering the development of one of the world's biggest sports leagues" (C. Seifert, DFL)