News Tank Football: elections, appointments & departures recorded in August 2025

• Marcus Keane (NED) has been appointed chief operating officer at FIFPRO, announced the international professional players' union, based in Hoofddorp (near Amsterdam, NED), on 18/08/2025.

• Michael Diederich, chief financial officer and executive vice president of FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga), will step down from his position on 30/09/2025, nine months before the scheduled end of his term of office (which initially ran until 30/06/2026), in order to "to take on a new professional challenge," announced the club on 07/08/2025.

• Britain's Martyn Hawkins has been appointed chief financial officer of Everton FC (Premier League), announced the man via the platform LinkedIn on 19/08/2025.

• Hans-Joachim Watzke (Borussia Dortmund), speaker of the executive committee of the DFL e.V. (an association of which DFL GmbH has been a wholly-owned subsidiary since 01/07/2001) and, in accordance with the statutes, chairman of the supervisory board of DFL GmbH, is the sole candidate for re-election at the German Professional Football League's general meeting scheduled to take place in Berlin (GER) on…