Federal Cartel Office closes file: 50+1 rule in focus

In these days, in which the major questions about the direction of world football are being negotiated, the Federal Cartel Office has closed the file with the somewhat smaller question of the direction of German football. The file does not contain a new, but the final assessment of a basic rule of German football: The Cartel Office has no problem with the 50+1 rule, which is intended to limit the influence of investors in football. But the problem is that the rule is not consistently applied. That 50+1 is respected in Freiburg and ridiculed in Leipzig; that the rule applies in Hamburg and Dortmund, but not in Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.