The Bundesliga soccer club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) is doing better business again after a difficult time in the corona pandemic. In the second half of 2022, a consolidated profit of 40.2 million euros was booked and thus 7.2 percent more than in the same period of the previous year, the listed company announced.

In the past three financial years, each ending at the end of June, BVB was in the deep red. Now the Champions League participant is back on a growth course, sales climbed by 9 million to 221.6 million euros in the first half of the 2022/23 financial year.

In the areas of match operations, TV marketing and merchandising, BVB made more money than before, while advertising revenue fell. According to the information provided, the result from transfer transactions amounted to 61.7 million euros in the second half of 2022, 1.5 million euros more than in the same period of 2021. Personnel expenses were 112.3 million euros, an increase of two million .