OneFootball

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]

OneFootball GmbH
Industry
  • Football
  • Media Internet
  • Mobile broadcasting
Founded1 January 2008 
FounderLucas von Cranach
HeadquartersGreifswalder Straße 212, Berlin, Germany
Key people
  • Lucas von Cranach (CEO)
  • Patrick Fischer (CBO)
  • Franz Koch (COO)
  • Silke Kuisle (CFO)
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

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 Rights
Football broadcasting rights To OneFootball
CompetitionCountryBroadcast details
Eliteserien All matches for free
Ekstraklasa All matches for Free
Danish Superliga All matches for free
Indian Super League All matches for free
Úrvalsdeild karla All matches for free
Kazakhstan Premier League All matches for free
Latvian Higher League All matches for free
Swiss Super League All matches for free
Slovak Super Liga All matches for free
USL Championship All matches for free

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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