FC St. Pauli held its general meeting on Saturday—with some good news: the neighborhood club generated a surplus in the 2024/25 financial year.
“FC St. Pauli closed the 2024/25 financial year with a profit. As of June 30, the group reported an annual surplus of 2,089,704 euros. The Hamburg-based Bundesliga club had already generated a surplus in the previous financial year,” St. Pauli announced on Saturday afternoon.
Revenues and other operating income rose to €102,381,443 in the past fiscal year (€80,032,723 in the previous year). The main drivers for the increase are, in particular, higher television revenues following promotion to the Bundesliga and a significant increase in marketing revenues.
“We had set ourselves two major goals for the past season: to stay in the league and to successfully implement the FCSP cooperative. Thanks to a great performance and support on and off the pitch, we were able to achieve both milestones and thus create the financial conditions for important future investments in our club infrastructure,“ explains Wilken Engelbracht, commercial director of FC St. Pauli, on the website of the club currently ranked 16th in the Bundesliga.
”We want to build bridges”
Otherwise, the general meeting was rather quiet. There was only one candidate for the presidency, so incumbent Oke Göttlich, club boss in the Kiez since 2014, will enter his fourth and final term in office.
Göttlich also took the opportunity to comment once again on the Jackson Irvine case. After talks with the captain, there had been “no indication” that the midfielder held misanthropic views. “We want to build bridges, not deepen divides,” Göttlich made clear in the packed Audimax hall at the University of Hamburg.
St. Pauli finalizes expansion plans for Millerntor Stadium
Göttlich also finalized FC St. Pauli’s long-term plans to expand Millerntor Stadium. The goal is to have 40,000 to 50,000 seats, said the 49-year-old. The club is delighted that politicians have agreed to support the expansion of the Millerntor and to tackle it together – in close cooperation with the neighborhood and the fans. The plans are independent of Hamburg’s Olympic bid, it was said. The club has wanted this for a long time, and demand from fans is high, with many often missing out on tickets. The first division club’s stadium is almost always sold out. St. Pauli achieved an average attendance of 29,506 fans in the 2024/2025 season. This corresponds to a capacity utilization of 99.86 percent. Most recently, the club’s newly founded cooperative took over the majority stake in the stadium.
