{
  "id": 17319510,
  "title": "Bayer Leverkusen ultra group demands end to its own club’s 50+1 exemption",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/bayer-leverkusen-ultra-group-demands-end-to-its-own-clubs-50-1",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-31T01:33:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bayer-leverkusen-ultra-group-demands-013300729.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bayer Leverkusen's ultra group, Nordkurve12, has called for their club to relinquish its exemption from Germany's 50+1 ownership rule, which grants majority voting control to a club's parent company. The supporters' association demands transparency, genuine member participation, and a common framework that would subject Leverkusen to the same ownership principles as other German professional clubs. This unusual demand comes amid renewed pressure from German football's organised supporter groups, who have demanded that the league eliminate existing exemptions and implement the recommendations issued by Germany's Federal Cartel Office in August.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}