Kicker (sports magazine)

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Editor Klaus Smentek[1]
Categories Sports magazine
Frequency Twice weekly
Publisher Olympia-Verlag GmbH
First issue 14 July 1920
Based in Nuremberg, Germany
Language German
Website kicker.de

kicker Sportmagazin (commonly kicker) is Germany's leading sports magazine and is focused primarily on football. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneer Walther Bensemann and is published twice a week, usually Monday and Thursday, in Nuremberg. The Monday edition sells an average of 240,000 copies, while the Thursday edition has an average circulation of about 220,000 copies (2005 figures).

The magazine also publishes a yearbook, the kicker Almanach. It was first published from 1937 to 1942, and then continuously from 1959 to date.

History

The head office of the “Kicker” sports magazine in Nuremberg with the Kicker statue in front of the main entrance

The magazine kicker first appeared in July 1920 in Konstanz, Germany. The magazine headquarters was originally in Stuttgart but moved to Nürnberg[2] in 1926. During World War II, the magazine merged with the publication Fußball, and was eventually discontinued in fall 1944. After the war, the magazine was again published (under the name Sport) by the newly incorporated Olympia-Verlag publishing company. Former chief editor Friedebert Becker again began publishing kicker in 1951, and for a number of years, both kicker and Sport appeared at the same time. In 1966, kicker was sold to Axel Springer AG. In 1968, Olympia-Verlag in Nuremberg acquired kicker and merged it with Sportmagazin, which had been published twice weekly since 1952. The first issue of the newly founded kicker-sportmagazin was released on 7 October 1968. Beside the two weekly publications, kicker provides a digital edition since 2012. The online version of kicker.de offers a broad live ticker for over 80 different international leagues.[3] A mobile version of kicker.de can be found among others in the mobile portal of T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2 and E-Plus. In addition, the online magazine has three apps in the iTunes store.[4]

Magazine

The modern version of kicker covers a number of sporting competitions and events, including:

The kicker magazine provides live scores for the following sports:

Trivia

List of german football ranking by Kicker

The ranking of the german football is an assessment of football players of the german bundesliga, the kicker - sports magazine is carried out. In january 1956, was first produced and published a ranking, since there are (with few exceptions) each year in the summer and in the winter break of the season a new edition of the traditional ranking.

Rangliste des deutschen Fußballs/2010er (in German)

Greatest Football Clubs of the 20th Century

In 1998, kicker published a list of the best football clubs of the 20th century. The list was based on the votes of specialists (Giovanni Trapattoni, Johann Cruijff, Udo Lattek etc.) to name 5 best clubs and give arguments in their support.[5]

Position Club
1 Spain Real Madrid
2 Netherlands Ajax
3 Italy AC Milan
4 Germany Bayern Munich
5 Spain FC Barcelona
6 England Manchester United
7 Portugal SL Benfica
8 Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv
9 Italy Juventus
10 Italy Internazionale Milano

References

  1. ↑ "Impressum kicker sportmagazin". kicker.de (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Western Europe 2003. Psychology Press. 30 November 2002. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "kicker – a long standing magazine". Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "kicker-online – always the latest informations". Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Valeriy Lobanovsky and Dynamo Kiev.

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