Record champion wants to save
New investor? That’s what the Bayern President says
04/13/2025 – 10:41 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
FC Bayern apparently no longer wants to make major investments. Is there a way out? President Herbert Hainer becomes clear.
FC Bayern does not want to fill up the shrinked legendary fixed deposit account with an IPO or with the help of another investor. “We still have five percent left that we could still sell in case of doubt. But there are no plans for that at the moment,” said supervisory board chief and President Herbert Hainer at World TV.
“It must be our task to recover this money as a board and as the supervisory board of this association so that we can act flexibly on the market,” said Hainer. The association currently holds 75 percent at FC Bayern AG. The groups Allianz, Adidas and Audi each are involved in 8.33 percent.
Hainer, former CEO of Adidas, smiled when asked whether it was not attractive to ring the bell on a Bayern IPO. “This is a one -off effect, and then the hard life comes again. So we will definitely not do that,” said Hainer. He “absolutely excludes that FC Bayern will go to the stock exchange in the next 10, 15 years”.
Honorary President Uli Hoeneß had previously explained the Aft Bayern austerity course. Hainer agreed. “The financial key data at FC Bayern are very stable. But we no longer have a full-filled fixed deposit account,” said the 70-year-old. The player salaries would become more and more shouted.
“Of course we have to make sure that we remain financially stable as FC Bayern and we have to see that we will replenish this fixed deposit account so that, if the sporting challenges are necessary, we can also invest and set ourselves up so that we also achieve our sporting goals for the future,” said Hainer. This was discussed on the Supervisory Board and given to the board.
Hainer did not reveal whether the Leverkusen Florian Wirtz is the goal of access. Wirtz is an “excellent footballer” and, in addition to Jamal Musiala, one of the top soccer players in Germany, said the president. But he is also a player of Bayer Leverkusen – “and that’s why I won’t indulge in speculation”.
There were words of praise from the Supervisory Council for the sports director Max Eberl, criticized in the course of the announced separation from Thomas Müller. “I think Max does a good job, and now we should just let him work in peace and not comment every week what he is doing,” said Hainer, “because at the end of the day the success and what comes out counts, and everything looks pretty good.”
