13th DFL New Year Reception – text of full speech by Christian Seifert

14 January 2020 – The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga hosted its New Year Reception for the 13th time on Tuesday. Christian Seifert, Chairman of the DFL Executive Committee and CEO of the DFL, welcomed around 350 guests to the event in Offenbach. In addition to many officials from the 36 clubs that make up the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2, the event was attended by representatives from the worlds of sport, media, politics and business.

The official part of the event included a welcome speech by Christian Seifert and a talk with DFB President Fritz Keller and Dr Rainer Koch, the DFB’s First Vice President for Amateur Football/Regional and State Associations.

In his opening speech, Christian Seifert adressed various current topics. The text of the full speech can be downloaded here: