Dortmund's Finances

[prk166]

Has does Dortmund compare to other German clubs financially? I realize they have a huge stadium. But are they filling it every week? And if they are, is it via charging less for tickets?

How about for things such as players wages and TV revenues? How do they rate to other German clubs in those areas?

[jonam]

Ufff....not very easy to answer as some of the clubs don't publish their revenues.

Ticketing:
BVB is together with Schlacke and Bayern No. 1, I guess. Maybe ahead of them as the Westfalenstadion is bigger and nearly sold out every week (capacity: 83.000/ average attendance: 78.000). On the other hand Schlacke's new stadium has more executive boxes.

Marketing:
Clearly the winner is Bayern. No. 2 should be BVB and then maybe HSV, Schlacke, Hertha (just a wild guess). Leverkusen and Wolfsbug are special cases as they are company-owned teams.

TV revenues:
Depends on how the team performs. Normally Bayern do well enough to get the biggest part of this cake (on national and international level). Last season it was BVB as they reached thesecond group stage of the Champions League.

Wages:
Bayern have the most expensive squad (even it seems at the moment that it is BVB but it's clearly Bayern) followed by BVB (57 Mio Euro for the players plus 10 Mio Euro for the other employees). Schlacke claim that they pay 40 Mio Euro for their players. The average is something about 30 Mio per club (afair that was in a kicker report this Monday).

BVB's special situation:
BVB is in serious financial problems as the officials gambled on the Champions League and the team finally failed to qualify. Also long-term debts of the stadium extension are not easy to compensate. At the end of this season surely 1-3 players will be sold to get some transfer revenues and cut down the wage bill.

[jonam]

Borussia Dortmund's Meier Comments on Soccer Season, Outlook
By Richard Weiss

May 26 (Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/)) -- Michael Meier, a member of the
management board of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co., comments on the
soccer club's performance in the past season, salaries and other
costs, and the outlook. Dortmund is the only German football club
with a stock-exchange listing. Meier was speaking in a television interview with Bloomberg News.

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On the club's final standing of sixth place in the German
Bundesliga, failing to qualify for the UEFA Cup:

``We are all disappointed about the final standing in the
league.''

On costs associated with the performance on the field:

``In the event we do not reach an international tournament via
the UI Cup, we calculated that we will forgo payments of around
5 million euros ($6 million).''
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source: bvb-board.com (http://forum.myphorum.de/read.php?f=3404&i=1242&t=1242)