DFB to compensate Hamburg SV

The Deutsche Fussball Bund (DfB) has announced it will compensate the 1.Bundesliga club with €2m, for their Cup defeat last year, which was later found to have been fixed. After five-hours of talks with the DfB, the club agreed to withdraw their appeal to be reinstated in the Cup after losing to regional league SC Paderborn last year in a match refereed by Robert Hoyzer, the man at the centre of Germany's football betting scandal. "It became clear there would be insurmountable problems if the result of the game was revoked," club’s lawyer Christoph Schickhardt said. "Therefore we are our withdrawing our appeal to be slotted back into the competition," he added. The club will be allowed to host a Germany friendly against either China or Japan in October, and will receive a direct sum of €500,000 as well as a guarantee by the DfB of profits of at least €1.5m from the friendly.