OneFootball

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OneFootball GmbH
Industry
  • Football
  • Media Internet
  • Mobile broadcasting
Founded1 January 2008 Edit this on Wikidata
FounderLucas von Cranach
HeadquartersGreifswalder Straße 212, Berlin, Germany
Key people
  • Lucas von Cranach (CEO)
  • Patrick Fischer (CBO)
  • Franz Koch (COO)
  • Joerg Meiner (CFO)
  • Kerstin von der Brelie (CPCO)
Websiteonefootball.com/de/home (German version)
onefootball.com/en/home (English version)
OneFootball CEO and founder Lucas von Cranach at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in 2017

OneFootball is a Germany-based football media company. The OneFootball app features live-scores, statistics and news[1] from 200 leagues in 12 different languages covered by a newsroom located in Berlin.[2] In 2019, OneFootball partnered up with Eleven Sports to have the rights to stream directly on the app La Liga in UK[3] and with Sky to transmit 2. Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal matches in Germany.[4] In 2020, OneFootball bought club-founded video forum Dugout. Speaking of the deal to Bloomberg, OneFootball CEO Lucas von Cranach said that the move will "benefit the whole football ecosystem with clubs, federations and leagues able to increase audience reach and harness our powerful data insights to gain a deeper understanding of their fans' engagement".[5]

History[]

The company was founded under the name Motain by Lucas von Cranach in Bochum in 2008.[6] In 2009 Von Cranach launched iLiga (THE football app abroad).[7] Following a move to the new HQ in Berlin, Motain and its products (iLiga and THE football app) were merged under the name of OneFootball.[8] On 7 September 2016 OneFootball was featured in the Apple keynote in San Francisco for the release of watchOS 3.[9] The management team, which included Silke Kuisle as CFO,[10] expanded in 2018 with the arrival of the ex-Puma CEO, Franz Koch, as the new COO and the SPORT1MEDIA ex-CEO Patrick Fischer, as the new CBO.[11] On 15 December 2020 the company took over Dugout, a multimedia forum founded by a host of Europe's biggest clubs, for reportedly more than $61 million.[12]

List of Current OneFootball Broadcsting Rights[]

Football broadcasting rights to OneFootball
Competition Country Territorial Availability
Bundesliga Germany Rights in Brazil
Primeira Liga Portugal Rights in Italy
Scottish Premiership Scotland Rights in Italy
Eliteserien Norway Rights outside of Norway
Ekstraklasa Poland Rights in selected international markets outside of Poland
Danish Superliga Denmark Rights outside of Denmark
Indian Super League India Rights outside of Indian Subcontinent
Úrvalsdeild karla Iceland Rights outside of Iceland
Kazakhstan Premier League Kazakhstan Rights outside of Kazakhstan
Latvian Higher League Latvia Rights outside of Baltics
Swiss Super League Switzerland Rights outside of Switzerland
Slovak Super Liga Slovakia Rights outside of Slovakia
Copa do Brasil Brazil Rights outside of Brazil
Liga MX Mexico Rights in selected international markets outside of Mexico
Austrian Bundesliga Austria Rights in selected international markets outside of Austria
K League 1 South Korea Rights in selected international markets outside of South Korea
Belgian Pro League Belgium Rights in selected international markets outside of Belgium

References[]

  1. ^ Cook, James. "The 17 hottest tech startups in Germany". Business Insider. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  2. ^ "OneFootball - Soccer Scores - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  3. ^ "'We want to be ahead of the curve': Why Eleven Sports and OneFootball are taking La Liga PPV". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  4. ^ "OneFootball to stream Sky's 2. Bundesliga and DFB Pokal games". SportBusiness Media. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  5. ^ "OneFootball Agrees Takeover of Rival Soccer Streamer Dugout". Bloomberg.com. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Wie Onefootball-Gründer Lucas von Cranach Größen wie Ex-Puma-CEO Franz Koch ins Team holt". Daily (in German). 12 December 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Marktführer im Bereich "Fußball mobil"". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  8. ^ "OneFootball". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Keynote - WWDC 2016 - Videos". Apple Developer. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  10. ^ "the Hundert Vol. 4 - Startups Meet Fashion". Issuu. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Ex-Puma CEO Koch and Sport1 Media chief Fischer join OneFootball | News | Sportcal". sportcal.com. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  12. ^ "OneFootball Agrees Takeover of Rival Soccer Streamer Dugout". Bloomberg.com. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.

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