Bundesliga/2.Bundesliga: €33.8m paid to clubs for playing time given to young players in 2022-23

The Deutsche Fußball Liga has paid €33.8m to Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga clubs for playing time given to their young players during the 2022-23 season, announced the German league on 20/09/2023.

This sum corresponds to 3% of the total amount derived from the marketing of domestic media rights in Germany's top two divisions in 2022-23 (as in 2021-22) and will rise to 4% in 2023-24 and 2024-25 in order to give even greater recognition to the best formative clubs.

This "young talent" criterion included in the distribution of TV rights for German professional football is based two-thirds on the number of minutes played in the league by players under the age of 23 with the status of "locally trained player" (at least three seasons with a German club between the ages of 15 and 21), and one-third on the time spent by these players in a training centre of one or more of the 36 professional clubs (18 in the Bundesliga, 18 in the 2.Bundesliga) from the age of 12.

The six clubs that benefited most from this criterion in 2022-23 were:
• SpVgg Greuther Fürth (12^th in the 2.Bundesliga at end of…