The German Football League has increased its revenue for the 11th year running, the DFL announced.
The DFL on Wednesday released the Bundesliga Report 2016, which outlines a 6.94 percent rise in turnover from €2.45 billion to €2.62bn for the 2014-2015 season, about a third of that coming from the two German powerhouses Bayern Munich (€523.7 million) and Borussia Dortmund (€276m).
Growth was posted in all revenue areas, with revenue from transfers rising by 35 percent to €230m. The single biggest contributor was the media receipts, accounting for €731m -- 28 percent of aggregate revenue.
With new TV contracts kicking in in several territories outside of Germany, the league expects those figures to go up to 35 percent in next year's report, DFL CEO Christian Seifert told ESPN FC.
The league's advertising revenue made up for 25.65 percent of the aggregate, and despite the high attendance numbers the match revenue remained the third largest contributor with €520.6m.
While the league expects the advertising figures to go up in future years, Seifert, citing the traditional low prices in Bundesliga, said that not much growth is expected in the match revenue sector.
The league paid close to a billion euros for "match operations," the salaries of the professional players. This accounted for 38.79 percent of total expenditure, up from last season, but the second-lowest level in Bundesliga's history.
In the 2014-2015 season, the Bundesliga generated more revenue than all 36 clubs from the upper two tiers in the 2012-2013 season, widely perceived as the German league's breakthrough year because of the all-German Champions League final between Bayern and Dortmund.
The 18 first-tier clubs generated an aggregate profit after taxes of approximately €51m, and 17 clubs posted a profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation.
Germany's professional football clubs have also become a source of income for over 50,000 people for the first time ever, with the number rising by nearly 20,000 from the Bundesliga Report 2006.