Soccer Team Valuations
#18 Werder Bremen
04.30.08, 6:00 PM ET
Germany
League: German Bundesliga
www.werder.de
Founded by Bremen students who'd won a soccer ball as a prize in a high school competition. Today still has a flourishing amateur sports side and is perhaps the only pro sports team to have pro soccer and chess teams under one roof. National soccer success first came in 1961 with a German Cup win. A founding member of the Bundesliga when German soccer went fully professional in 1960s, Werder won the title the second season then went into long decline until the late 1980s and the era of legendary coach Otto Rehhagel.
Team Value 1 $262 mil(€194 mil / £131 mil)
(2007: #NA)
Founded 1899
1-Yr Value Chg. NM
Revenue $131 mil(€97 mil / £65 mil)
Income 2 $11 mil(€8 mil / £5 mil)
Debt/Value 0%
Home Uniform
Green shirts, white shorts and socks
Away Uniform
Green and white halves, green shorts, green socks
Nickname
Die Grün-Weißen (Green-Whites)
Stadium
Weserstadion
Capacity: 42,358
Owner/Major Shareholder:
Club members
Chief Executive:
Jürgen Ludger Born (Chairman. Management Board)
Head Coach:
Thomas Schaaf
Club President:
Willi Lemke (Chairman, Supervisory Board)
European Trophies:
1 Cup Winners Cup 1992
Domestic Championships:
4: 1965,1988,1993,2004
Domestic Cups:
5 German Cups: 1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004; 3 German Supercups: 1988, 1993, 1994
Iconic Star:
Torsten Frings
Legend of the Past:
Horst-Dieter Höttges, Bremen's most capped international, played 420 Bundesliga games for the club, scoring 55 goals from 1964 onwards.
Main Sponsor/Uniform Sponsor:
Kappa
Other Sponsors:
Beluga Shipping, Coca-Cola, PSD Bank, EWETel
Revenues and operating income are for the 2006-07 season, converted into U.S. dollars based on June 30, 2007 exchange rates.
1Value of team based on current stadium deals (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt (other than stadium debt).
2Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Includes stadium debt.
Sources: Deloitte & Touche; company documents; Forbes.
Photos top to bottom: ©AP; ©AP;
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#18 Werder Bremen
04.30.08, 6:00 PM ET
Germany
League: German Bundesliga
www.werder.de
Founded by Bremen students who'd won a soccer ball as a prize in a high school competition. Today still has a flourishing amateur sports side and is perhaps the only pro sports team to have pro soccer and chess teams under one roof. National soccer success first came in 1961 with a German Cup win. A founding member of the Bundesliga when German soccer went fully professional in 1960s, Werder won the title the second season then went into long decline until the late 1980s and the era of legendary coach Otto Rehhagel.
Team Value 1 $262 mil(€194 mil / £131 mil)
(2007: #NA)
Founded 1899
1-Yr Value Chg. NM
Revenue $131 mil(€97 mil / £65 mil)
Income 2 $11 mil(€8 mil / £5 mil)
Debt/Value 0%
Home Uniform
Green shirts, white shorts and socks
Away Uniform
Green and white halves, green shorts, green socks
Nickname
Die Grün-Weißen (Green-Whites)
Stadium
Weserstadion
Capacity: 42,358
Owner/Major Shareholder:
Club members
Chief Executive:
Jürgen Ludger Born (Chairman. Management Board)
Head Coach:
Thomas Schaaf
Club President:
Willi Lemke (Chairman, Supervisory Board)
European Trophies:
1 Cup Winners Cup 1992
Domestic Championships:
4: 1965,1988,1993,2004
Domestic Cups:
5 German Cups: 1961, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004; 3 German Supercups: 1988, 1993, 1994
Iconic Star:
Torsten Frings
Legend of the Past:
Horst-Dieter Höttges, Bremen's most capped international, played 420 Bundesliga games for the club, scoring 55 goals from 1964 onwards.
Main Sponsor/Uniform Sponsor:
Kappa
Other Sponsors:
Beluga Shipping, Coca-Cola, PSD Bank, EWETel
Revenues and operating income are for the 2006-07 season, converted into U.S. dollars based on June 30, 2007 exchange rates.
1Value of team based on current stadium deals (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt (other than stadium debt).
2Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Includes stadium debt.
Sources: Deloitte & Touche; company documents; Forbes.
Photos top to bottom: ©AP; ©AP;
Soccer Team Valuations | www.forbes.com | http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Magazine | Spiegel.de (Die wertvollsten Fußball-Clubs der Welt)
