The four Bundesliga clubs in this season's Champions League have pledged 20m euros (£18.3m) to support fellow German teams during the coronavirus.
Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen will forego their share of the national media revenue and donate the remainder from their own funds.
The German Football League (DFL) will decide how the money will be distributed.
"We want to send a signal of solidarity to all clubs in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2," Bayern chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said.
The last Bundesliga fixture was played on 11 March and football in Germany's top divisions was suspended with immediate effect on 13 March because of Covid-19.
Former West Germany striker Rummenigge added: "In these difficult times, it's important that the stronger shoulders support the weaker shoulders. With this, we also want to show that football is standing together right now."
Dortmund chief executive officer Hans-Joachim Watzke said: "We have always said that we would show solidarity if clubs, through no fault of their own, should run into difficulties that they can no longer overcome themselves.
"Borussia Dortmund is currently having a major impact on society through a wide range of initiatives. And naturally we are prepared to help out other professional football clubs if it is ultimately a matter of cushioning the financial effects of the pandemic."
Christian Seifert, a spokesman for the DFL executive committee said: "The initiative shows that solidarity is more than just lip service in the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2."
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski and his wife Anna have contributed one million euros (£923,900) to fight the virus, team-mates Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich set up a fund called We Kick Corona and contributed one million euros between them, while Manchester City's German winger Leroy Sane has also made a considerable financial donation.
On Wednesday, players and directors at Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund agreed to take temporary pay cuts.
If they can do it, why can’t Prem clubs?
posted on 26/3/20
comment by Joe Goldberg (U18355)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 39 minutes ago
The PL has become a self serving shower of ludicrously rich self interested clubs.
They pay so much of their cash to ludicrously paid players.
Hopefully they have a collective conscience.
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And they are still paying those obscene wages in full despite a significant drop in revenue. How many businesses out there can say the same about their staff?
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posted on 26/3/20
comment by Joe Goldberg (U18355)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 39 minutes ago
The PL has become a self serving shower of ludicrously rich self interested clubs.
They pay so much of their cash to ludicrously paid players.
Hopefully they have a collective conscience.
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And they are still paying those obscene wages in full despite a significant drop in revenue. How many businesses out there can say the same about their staff?
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Nothing to be proud of, pl footballers are the one people who could afford to take a hit.
posted on 26/3/20
It’s your money they are paying those players with.
You pay for the tickets, the ppv, the money you spend with sponsors etc.
posted on 26/3/20
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 42 minutes ago
It’s your money they are paying those players with.
You pay for the tickets, the ppv, the money you spend with sponsors etc.
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Aye I’m aware how businesses work
posted on 26/3/20
comment by Joe Goldberg (U18355)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 42 minutes ago
It’s your money they are paying those players with.
You pay for the tickets, the ppv, the money you spend with sponsors etc.
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Aye I’m aware how businesses work
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Are you?
Superb
posted on 26/3/20
The 51/49 thing here stops anyone taking over clubs and turning the league into a Premier league!..
And because of that more people have a say in how clubs are run than just one rich crap who in being able to pays and charges the ridiculous money you see in the English Premier league!..
Why do you's think these rich bods from everywhere but England are coming in for English clubs, its because the German league doesn't give them the free rein they get in England!..
Oh, and a survey done a while back said the Premier league can survive without fans paying on the gate, so maybe clubs could give gate receipts to the lower leagues!..
posted on 26/3/20
The 51/49 thing here stops anyone taking over clubs and turning the league into a Premier league!..
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Leipzig and Hoffenheim are trying though.
posted on 26/3/20
"Leipzig and Hoffenheim are trying though."
And that's why Hoffenheims Dietmar Hopp is one of the most hated men in German football as far as the Ultras go!..
What he did was took over a amateur club and pumped money into it, with it being in the lower leagues he brought players in that were to good for those leagues and worked the club up the ranks very fast!..
A lower division club brought up through the ranks by one man isn't classed as him coming in and buying an already top division team, so nobody can argue with him, but fans say its not right and there is a lot of hassle/demos going on all over German football about it!..
And Red Bull, they've found a way around it, I think what they've done is get people from outside to buy shares that they're not allowed to have, and when it comes to voting they get full control because of that!..
I could be wrong on that one but I did read something on those lines when they took control of Leipzig!..
posted on 26/3/20
Explains a bit!..
https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/german-soccer-rules-50-1-fifty-plus-one-explained-466583.jsp
There is also the 20yrs rule that I wasn't to sure about, mates had mentioned it to me but I didn't think much about it!..
2yrs old but does explain!..
posted on 27/3/20
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 12 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by Joe Goldberg (U18355)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 42 minutes ago
It’s your money they are paying those players with.
You pay for the tickets, the ppv, the money you spend with sponsors etc.
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Aye I’m aware how businesses work
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Are you?
Superb
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Oh wow