OneFootball
Berlin-based football media company
OneFootball is a Berlin-based football media and technology company. Its platform combines live scores, statistics, and news from over 200 leagues in multiple languages through its newsroom in Berlin. In 2019, OneFootball partnered up with Eleven Sports to have the rights to live stream football matches from Spanish first league La Liga in the UK and with Sky to transmit 2. Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal matches in Germany directly through its app. In 2020, OneFootball acquired club-founded video forum Dugout.
History
Founded in Bochum in 2008 by Lucas von Cranach, the app provides extensive football coverage, including live scores, statistics, news, and video content.
In 2009, von Cranach launched iLiga, which was later renamed and merged under the OneFootball brand.
The app was featured in the 2016 Apple keynote for WatchOS 3. The management team expanded in 2018 with Franz Koch, former CEO of Puma, as COO, and Patrick Fischer, former CEO of Sport1 Media, as CBO. In 2019, OneFootball rebranded with a new logo. In April 2022, the company raised €300 million in a Series D funding round led by Liberty City Ventures, with participation from Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, and others, aiming to expand global reach and support its new blockchain initiative, OneFootball Labs, a joint venture with the aforementioned participants.
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