German volleyball league clubs will be equipped with the service-rich bFAN Sports mobile app and platform to disrupt fan engagement

Press release - The Volleyball Bundesliga (VBL), the German volleyball league, has selected bFAN Sports as the exclusive partner to equip the league's clubs with advanced mobile applications, equipped with data collection and analysis solutions and new entertainment services intended to profoundly transform fan engagement. Equipping the VBL clubs with the bFAN Sports fan engagement platform: this offers fans new forms of entertainment, personalized content, loyalty programs, as well as digital access to arena services. The clubs can from their side improve the knowledge of their fan and communicate in a renewed and personalized way. For the time being, the partnership will focus on on the teams of the first division before extending to the 2nd division and the Supercup and the cup finals.

“bFAN Sports has proven to be a technology far superior to the competition. Their product, which is both modular and scalable, adapts to the needs of clubs of different maturities and has thus convinced the VBL and its clubs to initiate immediate collective work,” explains Daniel Sattler, Digital Manager of the Volleyball Bundesliga.

“We are very happy to enter into this long-term partnership in collaboration with the VBL. In addition to the provision of our innovative technology, it is also all our know-how in terms of service and support that we bring to them” declares Guillaume Fallou, CEO of bFAN Sports. About bFAN Sports, it was created in mid-2017 by Nicolas Mencière, Jean de Boysson and Guillaume Fallou. bFAN Sports is a French Start-up which offers a white label mobile fan engagement platform, including native mobile applications, for professional sports clubs and rights holders and their fans. The bFAN Sports platform helps rights holders get to know their fans better, personalize their content and communication while offering games, gifts, experiences and services which meet the expectations from the fans in a digitalized world. The startup, which has a dozen employees, already works with more than 30 partners in football, rugby, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball and F1. About the Volleyball Bundesliga, the Volleyball Bundesliga is the league which ensures the organization of high-level volleyball competitions in Germany. It organizes the championships of the 23 men's and women's clubs of the 1st Bundesliga (league1), the championships of the 52 men's and women's clubs of the 2nd Bundesliga (league2) as well as the final stages and the Supercup.

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