Bayern Munich will donate €1m (£729,000) to help refugees and will set up a training camp for those arriving in Munich, as the numbers of people coming to the city rises.
Thousands have crossed into Germany via Hungary and Austria with Munich’s train station one of the main points of entry.
The plight of people fleeing conflict in their own countries such as Syria, as well as others escaping poverty, has become a major political and social issue in Europe, and the Bundesliga champions have responded.
“FC Bayern see it as its social responsibility to help those fleeing and suffering children, women and men, to support them and accompany them in Germany,” the Bayern chief executive, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, said in a statement.
Bayern’s youth academy will set up the training camp for children in conjunction with the city of Munich, and apart from regular training, it will also offer meals and German language classes.
The senior team will be accompanied by children when they enter the pitch for their next home game against Augsburg on 12 September with the club also planning a friendly with €1m of revenue going towards helping refugees.
“FC Bayern is taking a stand and I am happy about the club’s involvement,” the Munich mayor, Dieter Reiter, said. “That is why I happily approved the city’s support.”
Germany expects to receive 800,000 asylum seekers this year, four times more than in 2014, Germany’s labour and social affairs minister, Andrea Nahles, said on Thursday.
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