Germany: Fritz Keller (DFB) regrets that Christian Seifert will leave the DFL in June 2022

"I very much regret that Christian Seifert will only remain CEO of the DFL until (June) 2022. Just as I very much regretted that he left the Board of Directors of the German Football Federation at his request (in September 2020)," stated Fritz Keller, president of the DFB on 10/26/2020.

I have informed the chairman of the supervisory board of DFL GmbH (Peter Peters) 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. He had extended on 10/10/2016 for five years as the head of the DFL, that is to say until 30/06/2022.

"Christian Seifert is an indispensable, passionate and competent leader for the whole of German football, and not only for the professional football which he has represented brilliantly for 15 years and which, during this period, has achieved great economic successes at the level of clubs, which made sporting success possible," said Fritz Keller.

"He led the Bundesliga through the Covid-19 pandemic in a remarkable way (the German Championship was the first…