About

Jörg Englisch is head of legal at the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund), the governing body of football in Germany and a registered association with 6.8m members. Particular career highlights are, not surprisingly, the allocation of media rights for the German national team’s games as well as the DFB-Pokal tournament, procedures that receive extensive media coverage and are being closely watched by millions of fans. In his role, he particularly enjoys the ‘variety of legal issues that come up and the co-operation with experts in other fields’.