Bundesliga: relaunch of the domestic rights tender for 2025-2029 on 25/11/2024

The Deutsche Fußball Liga will relaunch the tender for Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga rights in the German-speaking regions (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and the Italian province of South Tyrol) for the 2025-2029 cycle (i.e. four seasons) on 25/11/2024, announced the DFL on 18/10/2024.

The Deutsche Fußball Liga suspended its tender for domestic media rights to the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga for the 2025-2029 cycle (four seasons), which was launched on 15/04/2024, following a complaint from OTT platform DAZN, on 17/04/2024. The British streaming service sent a letter to the DFL, the Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga clubs and the German Federal Cartel Office (competition authority) accusing the league of "illegal behaviour" in the process. The dispute concerned the allocation of Package (Lot) B of the call for tenders (all the individual Friday and Saturday afternoon Bundesliga matches), since DAZN submitted the best financial bid for this lot but was not awarded it, according to German press. A court of arbitration partially upheld DAZN's claim, which led the DFL…