DFL released the rough results of the first licensing round: 12 pro clubs got the licence without any problems. 11 pro clubs got the licence but have to face certain restrictions for the next season (such as more income than expenses with transfers or limited salary expenses) 13 pro clubs have to improve their calculation for the next season until June 11th to get a licence No names were explicitly mentioned except two: Kaiserslautern would not get the licence in case of relegation and Hamburg has to send monthly finance reports to DFL. Also DFB released their licencing results for Regionalliga. The reserve teams did not have to apply for a licence, 53 other 'normal' teams applied for it. Just 5 got the permit without restrictions (North: Wattenscheid, Aue; South: Elversberg, Unterhaching, Hoffenheim). 16 clubs get the licence with restrictions and 32 still have to prove better numbers until June 11th.
Source: press releases. Clubs without conditions: Bremen, Gladbach, Berlin Club that has to fulfill conditions until June: Kaiserslautern (they will succeed says President Jäggi)
Further details: Clubs without conditions: Rostock (conditions for 2.Bundesliga), Cologne Clubs with restrictions: Duisburg, Oberhausen Clubs with conditions to be fulfilled until June: Nuremberg, Cottbus, Mainz (restrictions for Bundesliga), Karlsruhe
Overview: 12 clubs without problems: Burghausen, Fürth, Schalke, Bremen, Gladbach, Rostock, Cologne. And we can surely add: Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Wolfsburg. 12th club is either Ahlen or Freiburg. 11 clubs with restrictions: Bochum, Trier, Hamburg, St Pauli, 1860, Stuttgart, Berlin, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Hannover. 11th club should be Ahlen or Freiburg. 13 clubs still have to fulfill certain requirements: Aachen, Frankfurt, Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Cottbus, Mainz (BL2 only), Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern. Given that all other stated correctly and the assumptions above are right, then the rest belongs to this category: Bielefeld, Mannheim, Lübeck, Reutlingen, Union Berlin.
A couple questions: 1. What are typical restrictions placed on clubs? 2. What are typical requirements placed on clubs? 3. Does this mean that Bielefeld is in danger of being denied a license and therefore relegated?
1. Typical restrictions: no minus in the next year, no selling of estates, positive transfer outcome, salary limits. Most teams also send a monthly finance report to the league. 2. Requirements depend on the files with the calculations they sent to the league. This can be to add income, to limit expenses, to get guarantees for sponsor money, etc. 3. All teams in the latter category don't have the licence for the next season secured. They got time until June to fulfill the demands of the league; then DFL will check the changes and decide on giving them the licence or not. Usually (almost) all will succeed with that. In Regionalliga DFB told Babelsberg that they would not get the licence for the next season. They withdraw from their request and therefore are the first team to relegate for sure. Their sportive chances would close to 0 anyway.
Some Details in today’s kicker: 5 Bundesliga clubs don’t have licence secured, but two of them are only endangered in 2.Bundesliga. These are: 1.FC Kaiserslautern – according to Jäggi “the conditions can be fulfilled” without giving details. For 2.Bundesliga it got known that they’d have to save further 13.5 M to get the licence – in other words: all salaries would have to be cut by 54.27%, almost impossible. Unclear is what they have to do to get the Bundesliga licence. If they fail, then they might have to drop to D5. 1.FC Nuremberg – also they don’t give details. Kicker (headquarters is located in Nuremberg) did some research and found that they have to get a security for 1 M – the loss of this season - and reduce personnel costs. Energie Cottbus – 2 M are missing for the licence. Energie hopes to get this sum from sponsors. Hansa Rostock – secure licence for Bundesliga, in case of relegation they have to add some income (amount unclear) Arminia Bielefeld – secure licence for Bundesliga. For 2.Bundesliga they’d have to get a security of about 2 M. Secure also is: the Bundesliga clubs without any problems are Bayern, Dortmund, Schalke, Wolfsburg, Mönchengladbach, Bremen and Leverkusen. Consequently the other six (Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, 1860, Hannover, Bochum) got the licence, but face restrictions. 2.Bundesliga overview: no problems for Cologne, Fürth, Burghausen, Freiburg and Union Berlin. Restrictions for Duisburg, Trier, Ahlen, Lübeck, Oberhausen. No licence yet for: Karlsruhe, Mainz (Bundesliga would be secured), Reutlingen, Frankfurt, Aachen, Mannheim, St Pauli, Braunschweig.