Overview

• Bavaria’s State Chancellery announced Thursday that Karl-Heinz Rummenigge will receive the Minister-President’s personal prize at the 2025 Bayerischer Sportpreis.
• The ceremony will be held at Munich’s BMW Welt with Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasting from 22:30 on Saturday.
• Markus Söder lauded Rummenigge as an extraordinary figure on and off the pitch and as a strong ambassador for Bavaria.
• Rummenigge logged 310 Bayern appearances with 162 goals, later served as vice-president and CEO, sits on the club’s supervisory board, and holds UEFA lifetime honorary membership after serving on its Executive Committee until February 2024.
• Other announced honorees include Franziska Preuß, Justin Engel, Felix Brych, FC Bayern’s women’s team, the BLSV, boxer Christina “Tiny Tina” Rupprecht, and wheelchair rugby player Moritz Brückner.