VfB Stuttgart complains against Winamax: Advertising bakers will be expensive!

VfB Stuttgart klagt gegen Trikotsponsor Winamax wegen ausbleibender Zahlungen und wechselt zum neuen Sponsor LBBW für das DFB-Pokalfinale.
VfB Stuttgart complains against jersey sponsor Winamax due to the lack of payments and changes to the new sponsor LBBW for the DFB Cup final. (Symbolbild/MBW)

VfB Stuttgart complains against Winamax: Advertising bakers will be expensive!

In football, it is often hotly discussed, but the current events around VfB Stuttgart particularly heat up the mood. As Tagesschau.de Submit sponsor Winamax submitted. The reason for this is the lack of payments that the French betting provider has hired since spring 2025. After several unsuccessful reminders, VfB was forced to take legal action in order to request the contractually defined fee.

The dispute broke out particularly around the DFB Cup final when VfB Stuttgart decided to open LBBW as a new jersey sponsor. At Winamax, this met with outrage, which sees this as a violation of the agreements of the cooperation. Winamax announced that it would take legal action and spoke of a lack of reliability and fairness on the part of Vfb.

The new jerseys of VfB

VfB Stuttgart has presented the new jerseys for the coming season in parallel to these heated disputes. These are now decorated with the lettering of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, which will be the official main sponsor of the association from the coming season. The design of the new away jerseys was also presented, which increases the anticipation for the next season. According to Stuttgarter-zeitung.de The breast ring of the jerseys is now proud of the new sponsor.

The decision of the VfB to appear in the cup final against Arminia Bielefeld with the LBBW logo led to outrage at Winamax. The French company criticized the fact that the basic principles of a partnership, reliability, sincerity and fairness, would be disregarded. Winamax commented on this with "great surprise" and complained about the early broken contract on the part of the association, which was originally supposed to run until 2026 href = "https://www.n-tv.de/sport/der_sport_tag/verbannter-trikotsponsor- against-en-vfb-stuttgart-art-Article25790981.html" Class = "Source_3"> n-tv.de Reported.

The situation in detail

In his decision to choose another sponsor for the DFB Cup final, VfB Stuttgart referred to the quick readiness of the LBBW. This signaled "in the shortest possible time" to want to take over the jersey sponsoring for the final. The situation once again shows how turbulent it can be in professional football when it comes to sponsoring partnerships and compliance with contracts.

whether and how the legal disputes between VfB and Winamax develop remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that a huge pressure on VfB is currently on both sporty and financially. Fans and investors pursue the events with an arouses, especially in times when every financial decision must be carefully weighed up.

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