BAYERN MUNICH HAS TO REPAY 245,000 EUROS FOR VIOLATING MINIMUM WAGE REGULATIONS.

Bayern Munich has been ordered to return more than 200,000 euros ($216,560) for failing to meet minimum wage requirements during a five-year period, according to Bavarian customs authorities.

In addition, the club must pay around 45,000 euros ($48,700) in outstanding social security obligations.

Bayern underpaid staff from 2016 to 2021, according to the research.

According to the Munich customs office, Bayern hired people on limited-hours contracts, primarily in the club’s youth training center, but “the actual level of employment was far higher.”

The agency stated in a statement that “the club did not pay the minimum wage at the youth training center it operates.”

Bayern apologized for the event in a press release on Thursday, adding that “it was never FC Bayern Munich’s intention to withhold employees from their legitimate wages.”

Bayern stated that it has fully cooperated with the investigation and has taken efforts to guarantee that such situations do not occur again.

“The club has cooperated with the process, and the procedure is now closed,” said Thomas Meister, a spokesman for Munich customs, an AFP subsidiary.

Bayern Munich is the largest sports club in Germany and the third highest-earning football club in the world, after Real Madrid and Barcelona, with an annual turnover in excess of 650 million euros ($700 million).

Bayern Munich’s men won their 11th consecutive Bundesliga title in 2022-23, while their female counterparts won two of the previous three Frauen Bundesliga titles.