Overview
- Borussia Dortmund announced Monday that Carsten Cramer has been appointed chairman of the executive board and given a contract running until 30 June 2031.
- Sport director Lars Ricken signed a new deal through 30 June 2030 while finance chief Thomas Treß extended his term to 30 June 2028 and will leave the executive board then.
- Svenja Schlenker’s contract remains unchanged and also runs until 30 June 2028, keeping the club’s four-member Geschäftsführung intact.
- President Hans-Joachim Watzke publicly endorsed the configuration and framed the personnel moves as steps to enable the club’s new corporate strategy and the ongoing statutes process.
- The club says the changes are meant to lock in continuity for sporting and commercial planning, preserve institutional knowledge through a possible advisory role for Treß, and give Cramer—who joined BVB in 2010 and the executive board in 2018—clear leadership to carry the governance work forward.