The Tempodrom was the venue for the anniversary celebration.Foto: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
26 September 2023 – The DFL hosted more than 450 guests at the “60 Years of Bundesliga” gala in Berlin’s Tempodrom – among them representatives from various sports and media, politics and business, as well as delegates from the 36 clubs of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2.
Selected impressions from the evening:
From left ro right: Hans-Joachim Watzke (Speaker of the DFL
Executive
Committee,
Chairman of the
DFL Supervisory
Board and Chairman of the Management Board Borussia Dortmund), Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britta Ernst (Wife of the
Chancellor), Dr. Steffen Merkel (DFL CEO) and Dr. Marc Lenz (DFL CEO) 1 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
Bernard Dietz (UEFA Euro 1980 winner, left) and Otto Rehhagel (Recipient of
the DFL‘s honorary
award and Bundesligawinning head
coach) 2 / 27 Foto: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Tom Bartels (Moderator, left) and Friedhelm Funkel (Holds the record for six Bundesliga promotions as a coach) 3 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Klaus Allofs (Member of the
Board for Sport &
Communication
Fortuna Düsseldorf, left) and Bernd Neuendorf
(DFB President) 4 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Roman Weidenfeller (FIFA 2014 World Cup winner, left) and Laura Wontorra (Moderator) 5 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/TIm Groothuis
From left to right: Hermann Winkler (Vice President DFB), Christian Wulff (Former German President) and Klaus Wowereit (Former Mayor of Berlin) 6 / 27 Foto: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Fernando Carro de Prada (CEO Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Paulo Sergio (FIFA 1994 World
Cup winner with
Brazil and Member of
the Bundesliga
Legends Network), Simon Rolfes (Sporting Director Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
7 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Axel Hellmann (Spokesperson for
the Eintracht
Frankfurt Board and DFL Executive
Board Member, left) and
Oliver Leki (First Deputy
Speaker of the DFL
Executive
Committee and
Board Member
Sport-Club
Freiburg) 8 / 27 Dirk Zingler (President FC Union Berlin, left) and Steffen Schneekloth (Second Deputy
Speaker of the DFL
Executive
Committee and
President
Holstein Kiel) 9 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Thomas Helmer (UEFA Euro 96
Winner, left) with Laura Wontorra 10 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
Frank Baumann (Sporting Director SV Werder Bremen, left) and Dieter Burdenski (Record for most
Bundesliga
appearances for
SV Werder Bremen) 11 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Heike Ullrich (DFB Secretary
General), Ariane Hingst (World Champion
2003 and 2007) und Nia Künzer (World Champion 2003) 12 / 27 Foto: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Chancellor Olaf Scholz 13 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
Rüdiger Fritsch (DFL Supervisory
Board Member and
President of
SV Darmstadt 98,
left) and Rachid Azzouzi (Sporting Director SpVgg Greuther Fürth) 14 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Arnd Zeigler (Stadium Announcer SV Werder Bremen and Moderator), Kevin Kühnert (Secretary General
of the SPD) and Kay Bernstein (President Hertha BSC) 15 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Katja Kraus (Co-Initiator and Chairwoman of the Advisory Board “Fußball kann mehr”, left) and Oke Göttlich (Member of the DFL
Exective Board and
President
FC St. Pauli)
16 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
From left to right: Axel Balkausky (Director of Sport ARD), Friedrich Merz (Chairman of the
CDU), Christine Strobl (Program Director ARD) and Carsten Linnemann (Secretary General CDU) 17 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Dr. Stefan Holz (Managing Director
of the German
basketball league, left) and Frank Bohmann (Managing Director
of the German
handball league) 18 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Peter Peters (DFL Honorary Member, left) and Harald Strutz (DFL Honorary Member) 19 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
Wolfgang Niersbach (Former
DFB President, left) and Markus Merk (Former Bundesliga Referee) 20 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Stefan Reuter (FIFA 1990 World Cup and UEFA Euro 96 Winner), Pierre Littbarski (FIFA 1990 World
Cup Winner) and Fredi Bobic (UEFA Euro 96
Winner)
21 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to rigth: Jan-Christian Dreesen (Member of the DFL
Exective Board and
Chairman of the
Board of Directors
FC Bayern
München), Paulo Sergio (FIFA 1994 World Cup winner with Brazil and Member of
the Bundesliga
Legends Network), Karl Hopfner (Former President FC Bayern München) and Andreas Jung (Member of the Board FC Bayern München) 22 / 27 Foto: DFL/Witters/Leonie Horky
Dr. Steffen Merkel (left) and Dr. Marc Lenz (DFL CEOs) 23 / 27 Alexander Meier (Bundesliga top goalscorer 2014/15, left) and Pirmin Schwegler (Head of Licensed Football and Football Cooperations TSG Hoffenheim) 24 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
Holger Schwiewagner (DFL Executive
Board Member and
Managing Director
of SpVgg Greuther
Fürth, left) and Rouven Schröder (Sporting Director
RB Leipzig) 25 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Christian Wulff, Olaf Scholz with Britta Ernst and Hans-Joachim Watzke 26 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters/Tim Groothuis
From left to right: Alexander Roesner (Senior Vice President Sports Editorial Sky Germany), Wolff-Christoph Fuss (Commentator Sky Sports Germany), Hans Gabbe (Senior Vice President Sports Rights and Commercialization Sky Germany), Charly Classen (Executive Vice President Sports Sky Germany), Barny Mills (CEO Sky Germany), Devesh Raj (Chief Operating Officer Sky UK) and Alessandro Reitano (Senior Vice President Sports Production Sky Germany) 27 / 27 Photo: DFL/Witters