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Thursday briefing: Donata Hopfen resigns as CEO of the German Football League

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8 December 2022 - 4:30 AM

Donata Hopfen, CEO of Germany's football governing body Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) will resign from her post at the end of the year, DFL said in a statement Wednesday evening.

DFL said its supervisory board had held a meeting earlier and decided Hopfen, who replaced Christian Seifert as CEO on January 1, 2022, "had different ideas about the future strategic direction of the company."

Hopfen's resignation comes amid delays to the sale of a $3.6 billion stake in the Bundes

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