Bundesliga fans will this weekend celebrate their victory over the German Football League's (DFL) now-scrapped investment plans as champions Bayern Munich struggle with their own crisis which risks derailing their entire season.

In December, Germany's first and second-tier soccer clubs voted in favour of letting a financial investor take a stake in the DFL media arm in a deal valued at between 900 million euros and 1 billion euros ($976.95 million and $1.09 billion).