Bavarian Football Association

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Bavarian Football Association
Logo of the BFV
Founded June 1946
president Rainer Koch
address Brienner Strasse 50
80333 Munich
Master gentlemen FC Bayern Munich II
Cup winners men Würzburger Kickers
Master women SC Würzburg Heuchelhof
Cup winners women FC Forstern
Parent association South German Football Association
Subordinate Associations 7 districts
region Map-DFB-Regionalverband-BY.png
Clubs (approx.) 4,530
Members (approx.) 1,607,726 *
Teams (approx.) 25,554 *
* As of 2019
Homepage www.bfv.de

The Bavarian Football Association ( BFV ) is the umbrella organization for 4,530 football clubs in Bavaria with over 1.6 million members (as of 2019). This makes the BFV the largest of the 21 regional associations of the DFB and the largest sports association of the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV).

history

The Association of South German Football Associations (VSFV) was founded in Karlsruhe in 1897 as the regional umbrella organization for football clubs in southern Germany and at that time also included the territory of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In Bavaria a district was formed as part of the southern district of the VSFV in the 1904/05 season. Bavaria did not form an independent regional association within the DFB.

In the train of the DC circuit of the sport by the Nazis , the regional associations of the DFB disintegrated, the South German federation decided its dissolution on August 6 1,933th

The Bavarian Football Association (BFV), later an independent regional association of the DFB , was only founded after the Second World War in June 1946, and on February 4, 1949 it was entered in the register of associations at the Munich District Court . Two people in particular stood out as the BFV's obstetricians: In southern Bavaria, Hans Huber held the first BFV meeting in mid-January 1946 in the “Postgarten” inn on the Isartor and formulated his first sporting goals. In northern Bavaria, the working-class athlete Andreas Rieß was responsible for this. In the early years of the BFV, 850 clubs with 1,300 senior and 200 youth teams were looked after from Munich. The first sporting comparison between northern and southern Bavaria was seen by 28,000 spectators. Later, the men's national cup established itself as an attractive competition that the BFV won 14 times over the years.

In 1953 the BFV bought a 4,000 m² property on Brienner Strasse in Munich . The "House of Football" that was built on it serves as the association's headquarters to this day.

The variant of the penalty shoot-out that is internationally valid today goes back to the referee Karl Wald and the BFV. On May 30, 1970, at the Bavarian Referee Association Day in Munich, Wald found a majority among the delegates for the rule he had worked out, against the resistance of the association leadership. A little later, the German Football Association (DFB) also adopted the rule from Bavaria. In 1994 the BFV and the BLSV opened their own sports school in Oberhaching in the Munich district . After Wolfgang Niersbach's resignation as DFB President in November 2015, the President of the BFV Rainer Koch, together with the other 1st DFB Vice President Reinhard Rauball, became provisional DFB President in accordance with the statutes and remained this until Reinhard Grindel was elected on April 15, 2016. From April 2, 2019 to September 17, 2019, he again acted as interim president of the DFB with Rauball.

In June 2019, the BFV hosted the UEFA Regions' Cup , the European championship for amateurs , and became vice European champion with the Bavarian selection.

Association area

The association's territory extends to the Free State of Bavaria, with some clubs (on Bavarian territory) not belonging to the BFV, but to the Württemberg Football Association or the Hessian Football Association .

The association area is divided into seven districts ( Upper Bavaria , Lower Bavaria , Swabia , Upper Palatinate , Upper Franconia , Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia ), the districts in turn in a total of 22 districts. There is a decentralized office in each district. A reform of the association structure was implemented in 2006, with the result, among other things, that each district must consist of at least 100 associations. Conversely, Middle Franconia and Upper Franconia reduced the playing areas, while Lower Franconia has had one more playing area since then.

In detail (as of 2019):

  • District Middle Franconia, consisting of the three districts: Erlangen / Pegnitzgrund, Neumarkt / Jura and Nürnberg / Frankenhöhe
  • District of Niederbayern, consisting of two districts: Niederbayern West, Niederbayern Ost
  • District of Upper Bavaria, consisting of the four districts: Danube / Isar, Inn / Salzach, Munich and Zugspitze
  • District of Upper Franconia, consisting of the three districts: Bamberg / Bayreuth / Kulmbach, Coburg / Kronach / Lichtenfels and Hof / Tirschenreuth / Wunsiedel
  • District of Upper Palatinate, consisting of three districts: Amberg / Weiden, Cham / Schwandorf and Regensburg
  • District of Swabia, consisting of the three districts: Allgäu, Augsburg and Danube
  • District of Lower Franconia, consisting of the four districts: Aschaffenburg, Rhön, Schweinfurt and Würzburg

organization

Association structure

The highest organ of the Bavarian Football Association is the Association Day, which takes place every four years (most recently in 2018). Among other things, this elects the BFV President. Rainer Koch, a lawyer, has held this position since November 6, 2004 . Together with the six-member presidium and the association's executive committee, he heads the association.

The Presidium consists of the President, the Treasurer and four Vice-Presidents.

The association board consists of

  • the six board members,
  • seven district chairmen, two of whom are also members of the executive committee,
  • the five chairmen of the technical committees,
  • three further members (U30 member, association attorney, examination committee)
  • and the honorary president Heinrich Schmidhuber .

In five specialist committees for the areas of men's games, referees, women and girls, youth and sports courts, the course is set for organized Bavarian amateur football.

Over 800 other voluntary association employees and over 80 full-time employees in the association headquarters work in the BFV.

Association headquarters

Main departments
Headquarters of the BFV in Münchner Brienner Straße

In the association headquarters in Munich there are three main department levels for sports, society / law and association administration, the marketing subsidiary BFV Service GmbH and the communications department below the managing director Jürgen Igelspacher. In addition to the areas of finance, IT and property management, the association administration is also affiliated with the passport department of the Bavarian Football Association, which processes over 160,000 processes and applications per year.

Communication and media work

The association organ of the BFV is Bayernsport with a circulation of 23,500 copies. Since October 1, 2008, fans have been able to watch goals and important scenes from games from the Regionalliga Bayern and the two Bayern leagues on the online video portal BFV.TV.

As additional digital information platforms, the BFV operates an app with a results, sports news and association information portal, a widget that all clubs can integrate into their homepage free of charge, the electronic match report, the online pass system and their own social media channels.

President

Game operation

Game operation men

The top division of the men within the Bavarian Football Association is the Regionalliga Bayern . The regional league champion takes part in the promotion round to the 3rd league , in the 2019/20 season the Regionalliga Bayern will receive a fixed promotion right together with the Regionalliga Nord based on a decision of the DFB Bundestag on December 7, 2017. The second highest league is the Bayernliga , which is played in two groups (north and south). The third league level and thus the lowest division at the level of the regional association is the regional league , which is divided into five groups (northeast, northwest, center, southeast and southwest). The worst-placed clubs in the regional league are relegated to the respective district league of the BFV district in whose area of ​​responsibility they are based.

Below the leagues organized at the level of the regional association are the district leagues (two per district), the district leagues (one to two, in Munich three per district), the district classes also located at the district level (at least as many as the district leagues) and finally the A-class and in some quarters also B or even C class.

A total of around 15,000 games take place in Bavaria on one weekend, and over a million people are in Bavaria every weekend as players, coaches, coaches or spectators on the amateur football fields.

Tournaments and cups

Men's

  • Toto trophy
  • Bavarian indoor championship
  • ERDINGER Masters Cup

Seniors

  • Seniors A (over 32)
  • Seniors B (over 40)
  • Seniors C (over 45)
  • BFV-Ü40-Cup

Women

A-youth

  • BayWa A-Juniors Cup
  • Bavarian championship
  • Bavarian indoor championship for the E.ON Cup

B-youth

  • Bavarian championship
  • Bavarian indoor championship for the E.ON Cup

C-youth

  • Construction trophy
  • Bavarian championship
  • Bavarian indoor championship for the E.ON Cup

C juniors

  • Bavarian championship
  • E.ON Cup
  • AOB Cup

D-youth

  • K and L soccer cup

E-youth

  • E.ON Kids Cup
  • Kaufland Soccer Cup

statistics

Around 11,000 referees, together with volunteer game directors and sports judges, guarantee the organization and smooth running of the association's games with 8,500 men's teams, 16,300 junior teams and 1,800 women's and girls' teams every week. Thus around 26,600 teams play in the individual leagues of the BFV (as of 2019).

Further tasks

The statutory tasks of the non-profit association include the promotion of competitive and popular sports as well as the assumption of social responsibility. The three central pillars of the association's work of the BFV are the organization of gaming operations, the promotion of talent and social and socio-political tasks.

Talent promotion

A central pillar of the BFV is the promotion of talent. The aim is to offer every talent, regardless of where they live, an equal and fair chance of a qualified training close to their home. In order to discover the talents, the BFV organizes a Bavaria-wide talent inspection day every year in July, which all children who celebrate their 11th birthday in the same year can take part. For girls, talent promotion begins with a separate basic review for girls interested in football in the spring and regular taster training sessions under the motto “Ballbina kickt”. 192 honorary coaches ensure that the young talents make their way from the small home club in the area, via the 64 base bases of the DFB to the 18 BFV junior management centers and ideally to the junior teams of the professional clubs. In addition, the elite football schools in Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg, operated by the BFV in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture and FC Bayern Munich , 1. FC Nürnberg , TSV 1860 Munich , SpVgg Greuther Fürth and SpVgg Unterhaching , combine highly qualified school and sports training. While overall the level of organization among the juniors is largely exhausted, there is still a lot of potential among women and girls in Bavaria.

Social and socio-political commitment

The BFV campaigns for the topic of integration and, together with its associations, sets a clear signal against racism, violence and xenophobia and for tolerance and respect. For example through the BFV anti-racism campaign with the spot “Racism is a rubbish”, through Bavaria-wide symbols such as the day of action “Together against right-wing extremism” together with the Bavarian Alliance for Tolerance, through the support of the “Graefenberger Sports Alliance”, “Music for Goals ”and the“ Remembrance Day in German Football ”and by providing 22 conflict managers. In 2009, BFV President Rainer Koch opened the exhibition "Kicker, Fighters and Legends" on the site of the former Dachau concentration camp , which was later shown in the "House of Football" in Munich. The BFV also fulfills its social responsibility with the social foundation established in 2012. The foundation's funds are made up of donations and the BFV social euro: for all relegation and play-off games, the association charges an additional euro as a social contribution per admission ticket. In addition to its commitment to the Mozambique social project, which has existed since 2005, and the cooperation with the Jordanian Football Association (JFA), which has existed since 2013 , the BFV can also act through the foundation in emergency situations within the Bavarian football family and provide financial aid.

Strengthening volunteering

The BFV also has its own commission for the maintenance and promotion of voluntary work for volunteering as the lifeline of amateur football and the foundation of all youth work. As a thank you for the tireless and unpaid commitment, the BFV, together with outstanding sports personalities (including Franz Beckenbauer , Paul Breitner , Uwe Seeler , Stefan Reuter, Horst Hrubesch, Philipp Lahm and Dietmar Hamann) honors 22 people at the great honorary award ceremony every November 22 Bavarian circles - on behalf of the many volunteers in Bavaria. Since 2015 there has also been the young honorary prize "Football Heroes", which honors young club officials under the age of 30 for their voluntary work. Further honorary prizes and awards are given on a district and district-specific basis, and various series of training courses are held in the area. The "Interplay of prevention and volunteering in the association" training course provides participants with ways of recognizing their work, integrating new target groups and young people, but also deals with prevention issues such as alcohol and sexual violence. In addition, the BFV offers basic training courses for association volunteers and so-called volunteer meetings. These serve as part of a three-part structure for information, further training and the exchange between the association's honorary officer and the district honorary officer.

"Pro amateur football" campaign

The Bavarian Football Association has been investing one million euros annually in the “Pro Amateurfußball” campaign since 2011. With the comprehensive initiative, which has had eleven priorities since the Association Day 2018, the BFV supports its associations in their daily work and helps them to position themselves for the future against the background of changing social framework conditions, in particular demographic development: The number is from 2008 to 2013 of the junior teams in Bavaria fell from 20,699 to 16,809 teams (2013) - a decrease of almost 19 percent. The financing basis of “Pro Amateurfußball” is the additional income from the increase in club change fees, which was decided jointly by clubs and the association at the 2010 Association Day. In 2014, the BFV received the “UEFA Grassroots Day Award” for the best grassroots project.

Finance and Marketing

Financing and budget

In 2018, the budget of the BFV was around 19.3 million euros. The income consisted of subsidies from the DFB, the Bavarian State Sports Association and the South German Football Association, passport fees and collection, marketing income from BFV Service-GmbH, referee income, game fees from professional clubs, club registration fees, income from sports court proceedings, coach training, talent development camps and football schools , Real estate, asset management, district and IT fees, events and gaming operations combined. On the other hand, there were equally high expenses for personnel costs, further development of amateur football, organization and development of game operations, competitions, campaigns and events for the club base, IT costs, computer programs, game operations, campaign "Pro Amateurfußball", operation of the districts, work in the districts, referee Pool, talent development, holiday camps and football schools, administrative and operating costs, association referee committee, company pension scheme, coach training, referee funds and regional league Bavaria expenses.

marketing

The wholly-owned subsidiary BFV Service GmbH , founded in 2000, takes care of partner and sponsor support, digital marketing and event management. This also includes the company football tournaments B2Soccer. With over 20 employees, BFV Service-GmbH generated 2.2 million euros (as of 2017).

Criticism related to the restriction on video coverage

In 2015, several newspaper publishers in Bavaria filed an antitrust lawsuit against the conditions imposed by the Bavarian Football Association in connection with the restriction of video coverage in top Bavarian amateur football. The competent Bavarian state cartel authority then referred to the civil legal process. According to the will of the BFV, the publishers should hand over their video recordings of games in top Bavarian amateur football (4th to 6th league) free of charge to the association platform BFV.TV or a license fee that is adjusted to the level of the league (note: Regionalliga = 1000 euros; Bayernliga = 500 euros; Landesliga = 250 euros) per game, 90 percent of which the BFV would then distribute to the clubs. Otherwise, the clubs could exclude reporters via domiciliary rights. Newspaper publishers accused the BFV of exploiting its monopoly position and disregarding the public benefit.

The 17th Chamber for Commercial Matters at the District Court of Munich I stopped the previous practice of the BFV by means of a preliminary injunction according to the decision of May 12, 2015. The BFV appealed against the preliminary injunction. The Munich Regional Court I granted this objection on June 11, 2015 and canceled the preliminary injunction against individual passages of the approval documents (2015/16 season) for the Bayern and Landesliga concerning the accreditation guidelines for media.

Due to the public allegations that the association was blackmailing its football clubs by exploiting a monopoly position in a market-abusive manner in order to recognize the BFV accreditation guidelines, the BFV decided on June 19, 2015 that the regulations should only apply if the clubs were against each other of the Bavarian top amateur leagues by a majority vote in favor of it. At the playgroup meetings, the top amateur clubs of the Regionalliga Bayern , the two Bavarian leagues and the five regional leagues voted with a majority for joint management and exploitation of video rights in cooperation with the BFV. In a secret ballot at the eight meetings, a total of 90.1 percent of the clubs (127 votes in favor) were in favor of the application of the BFV accreditation guidelines and rules for exercising house rules (14 votes against; one abstention).

On July 22, 2016, the Regional Court of Munich I dismissed the lawsuit of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (MZ) and other publishers against individual passages of the approval documents of the Bavarian Football Association (BFV) for the Bavarian and regional leagues relating to the video accreditation guidelines for media. The judges thus confirmed the BFV's legal position in the main proceedings. On March 23, 2017, the Munich Higher Regional Court (OLG) gave the BFV the right and dismissed the lawsuit of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (MZ) and other publishers, and the OLG also declared an appeal to be inadmissible.

Finally, on March 29, 2018, the BFV also got the right at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). The plaintiffs wanted to bring down the association's video accreditation guidelines again - through a complaint against the non-admission of the action brought by the Cartel Senate at the Munich Higher Regional Court. The BGH judges rejected the appeal against the judgment of the cartel senate at the OLG in the last instance.

Sports school Oberhaching

In Oberhaching in the Munich district , the BFV and the BLSV opened their own sports school in 1994, which extends over an area of ​​220,000 m². Both associations are each 50 percent owner. The central BFV trainer training takes place in the sports school, which was the headquarters of the Paraguay national team during the 2006 World Cup in Germany . The German national soccer team for men and women was also a guest several times.

Current awards

  • Bavarian sports award in the “Innovation in Sport” category for “BFV.TV - The Bavarian Football Magazine” for the idea, conception and implementation of Germany's first “online sports show” for amateur football (2013).
  • German-Turkish friendship award "Kybele" for the integration work of the BFV and the association's commitment to equal opportunities and fairness on and next to the football field (2014).
  • “UEFA Grassroots Day Award” for the BFV “Pro Amateurfußball” campaign as the best grassroots project (2014).
  • Prize to promote organ donation 2017 for the action game day throughout Bavaria "Nobody wins if there is a tie!" from the German Transplantation Society e. V.
  • Special award for organ donation from the Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care and the German Organ Transplantation Foundation, Bavaria region.

Trivia

  • In the Reichsbund Cup , Bavaria was able to reach the final three times in a row in 1939, 1940 and 1941.
  • With 14 titles, the BFV is the record winner of the men's national cup (1952–1955, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1970/71, 1977, 1980, 1989/90, 2000), the women hold two titles (1983, 2002).

literature

  • Bavarian Football Association (publisher): 25 years of the Bavarian Football Association. Pflaum Verlag, Munich, 1970.
  • Bavarian Football Association (Hrsg.): 50 years of the Bavarian Football Association. Vindelica-Verlag, Gersthofen, 1995.
  • Rainer Franzke: Koch proves that the association subsidizes every club. kicker , January 21, 2013, p. 46 f.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFB membership statistics 2019, see www.dfb.de , accessed on August 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ BFV image brochure, see archive ( Memento of October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 21, 2014
  3. ↑ Inventor of the penalty shootout
  4. ↑ 50 years of penalty shoot-out - from Bavaria into the world. In: be.de. May 29, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Kernert: The penalty shootout . Bavarian radio. June 15, 2014. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ New DFB President Reinhard Grindel: Der Tagesspiegel from June 7, 2016, accessed on August 15, 2020.
  7. ↑ Grindel resigns as president, Koch and Rauball interim top, accessed on April 2, 2019 on DFB.de.
  8. ^ Extraordinary District Day in Lower Bavaria. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ BFV: District and District Days 2017/2018. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b BFV | The BFV structure and bodies. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Change of promotion rules in the regional league decided. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Articles of Association of July 7, 2020.
  13. ↑ UEFA Grassroots Day Awards on www.uefa.com on May 21, 2014.
  14. ^ Antitrust authorities refused to work , Nordbayerischer Kurier dated June 9, 2015.
  15. ^ Court stops Bavarian Football Association , North Bavarian Courier from May 12, 2015.
  16. ↑ Dispute over amateur football videos goes to the next instance
  17. ↑ 90 percent of the top amateur clubs per BFV accreditation guidelines on www.bfv.de.
  18. ↑ Video dispute: The higher regional court also gives the BFV right. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Video dispute: BGH also approves the BFV. Retrieved May 28, 2019 .