The  Onefootball Story

2008 - 2013

The Beginning

March 2008

Lucas von Cranach founded Motain (product iLiga) in the back of a butchers shop in Bochum (Zimbo GmbH)
June 2009

Launch of iLiga as one of the first 1.000 apps on the iTunes App Store
Nov 2010

Established headquarters in Berlin
April 2013

Series A funding Earlybird
Oct 2013

Series B funding USV

2014 - 2020

Evolution to OneFootball

March 2014

Motain is rebranded as OneFootball
June 2016

OneFootball gets featured in Apple keynote during watchOS 3 launch
May 2016

Series C funding
July 2018

First ever live broadcast in the app (International Champions Cup 2018)
Sept 2018

Franz Koch joins as COO
Jan 2019

Patrick Fischer joins as CBO
April 2019

First La Liga live stream in the UK (Sevilla FC vs. Deportivo Alavés) in partnership with Eleven Sports
Aug 2019

Sky Deutschland distributes all Bundesliga 2 and DFB-Pokal matches on PPV basis on OneFootball
Apr 2020

Manchester City becomes first club network partner
June 2020

OneFootball rebranding
Dec 2020

OneFootball acquires football media company Dugout and welcomes new shareholders

2021 - Present day

Recent Years

April 2021

Jörg Meiner joins as CFO
April 2021

BVB, Spurs, DFB join as shareholders
Jan 2022

Ismail Elshareef joins as CPO
April 2022

Launch of OneFootball Labs and $300m raised in Series D funding
July 2022

Launch of first DVMs with Lega Serie A
Sept 2022

Renato Todorov joins as CTO
Sept 2022

Acquisition of Gloria and appointment of Victoire Cogevina as first VP Women’s Football
Oct 2022

Acquisition of Vertical Social Club
Nov 2022

Launch of CTV App