Donata Hopfen will succeed Christian Seifert as CEO of the German Football League at the beginning of the new year.
As the DFL announced this Saturday, Seifert will leave the league umbrella organization at the end of December, six months earlier than planned.
However, he will still be available to advise his successor if necessary.
The 45-year-old Hopfen is moving from a consulting company to the DFL.
Before that, she was, among other things, chairman of the management board of the “Bild” group at Axel Springer Verlag.