Onefootball

OneFootball is a Berlin 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]

OneFootball GmbH
Industry
  • Football
  • Media Internet
  • Mobile broadcasting
FounderLucas von Cranach
HeadquartersGreifswalder Straße 212, Berlin
Key people
  • Lucas von Cranach (CEO)
  • Patrick Fisher (CBO)
  • Franz Koch (COO)
  • Silke Kuisle (CFO)
Websitehttps://onefootball.com/en/home
OneFootball CEO & Founder Lucas von Cranach at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in 2017

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 September 7 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 Fisher, as the new CBO.[11] On December 15, 2020 the company took over Dugout, a multimedia forum founded by a host of Europe's biggest clubs, for reportedly more than $61,000,000.[12]

References
  1. Cook, James. "The 17 hottest tech startups in Germany". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  2. "OneFootball - Soccer Scores - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  3. "'We want to be ahead of the curve': Why Eleven Sports and OneFootball are taking La Liga PPV". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  4. "OneFootball to stream Sky's 2. Bundesliga and DFB Pokal games". SportBusiness Media. 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  5. "OneFootball Agrees Takeover of Rival Soccer Streamer Dugout". Bloomberg.com. 2020-12-15. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  6. "Wie Onefootball-Gründer Lucas von Cranach Größen wie Ex-Puma-CEO Franz Koch ins Team holt". Daily (in German). 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  7. "Marktführer im Bereich "Fußball mobil"". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  8. "OneFootball". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  9. "Keynote - WWDC 2016 - Videos". Apple Developer. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  10. "the Hundert Vol. 4 - Startups Meet Fashion". Issuu. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  11. "Ex-Puma CEO Koch and Sport1 Media chief Fischer join OneFootball | News | Sportcal". sportcal.com. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  12. "OneFootball Agrees Takeover of Rival Soccer Streamer Dugout". Bloomberg.com. 2020-12-15. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
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