Established in 1900, Borussia Mönchengladbach became one of the most successful clubs in German football history. The club has won the German Bundesliga Championship five times, the German DFB Cup three times and the UEFA-Cup two times. Since 2004, the home of the club is the BORUSSIA-PARK which offers capacity for more than 54,000 people. Through its excellent youth development system and infrastructure, the club regularly develops professional football players and superstars such as Jupp Heynckes, Berti Vogts, Günter Netzer, Lothar Matthäus, Stefan Effenberg and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen.
Borussia Dortmund is the intense footballing experience that has electrified the masses since 1909. No other club in Germany has higher attendance figures or sells more season-tickets. An average of almost 80,000 fans cheer for the club every gameday. We always give everything and get up again and again after falling. The result: honors in the shape of the UEFA Champions League, the World Club Cup, European trophies, eight German championships and four German Cups – and real love from the best fans in the world.
By opening the office in Shanghai in 2017 Borussia Dortmund will emphasize its efforts to maintain the leader for Chinese youth football development and to be closer to BVB's huge fanbase & partners.
In September 2016, Bayern Munich became the first European football club to set up an own company in mainland China. It is committed to bringing high-level professional football knowledge, helping the sustainable development of Chinese football and promoting the Sino-German cultural exchange. The company is located in Shanghai, but it operates all over China. Its work includes media cooperation, partnerships, youth training, merchandising, institutional cooperation and fan activities.
FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e.V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04, is one of the most successful and well-known football clubs in Germany with seven German championships, five successes in the German Cup and the victory in the 1997 UEFA Cup. As a registered association, the Royal Blues delimit themselves from investor-funded and group-owned clubs and own unique and valuable selling points. The essential business areas of the traditional club are football, the training of young football players in the so-called Knappenschmiede and the Knappen-Fußballschule as well as the marketing of its multifunctional VELTINS-Arena.
FC Schalke 04 stands for the values of tradition, success and passion and is, with more than 155,000 members, one of the five largest clubs in the world.