The corona virus has arrived in the Bundesliga and Champions League: FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are reacting to the tickets.
- In the Bundesliga there is because of the Corona virus Matchday 26 ghost games.
- DFL boss Christian Seifert considers games with spectators to be “not realistic”.
- Champions League game FC Bayern versus Chelsea FC is affected – that happens with the Tickets.
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Update from March 10, 6:15 p.m .: The decision at FC Bayern has fallen: The Munich residents will be on Wednesday, March 18, in an empty one Allianz Arena in the Champions League round of 16 against the Chelsea FC start. The record champions announced this Tuesday.
The Bayern statement said: FC Bayern the order of the Bavarian state government, which was enacted to protect the population. The aim is to reduce the risk of infection with the Corona virus to minimize.
FC Bayern’s Champions League game against Chelsea is without spectators.
Admission prices will be refunded.
More information: https://t.co/hUx8uexJbH
– FC Bayern Munich (@FCBayern) March 10, 2020
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Ticket prices will, however, be reimbursed to all ticket buyers. The double winner will probably lose a lot of money as a result.
Coronavirus: DFL assumes ghost games in the Bundesliga
First message from March 9, 2020: The worst case scenario is real: The German Football League (DFL) expects ghost games in the upcoming matchday 26 Bundesliga. The chaos is already big.
“I find it inconsistent what we are doing. We are currently acting inconsistently in many ways, ”said 1. FC Köln’s sports director Horst Heldt. DFL managing director Christian Seifert had declared on Monday: “We would like to play with spectators on the next match day. Unfortunately, this is not realistic. “
Coronavirus: PSG against BVB takes place without spectators
The Federal Ministry of Health at Jens Spahn (CDU) had made the recommendation to cancel events with over 1000 spectators – or to hold them in camera. The reason is the rapid spread of the Corona virus.
The second leg of the Champions League round of 16 between PSG and BVB is already being played without spectators, at the decision of the French authorities.
Coronavirus in Italy: empty ranks at Juventus against Inter Milan.
© picture alliance / dpa / Marco Alpozzi
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The question arises: who comes for them Ticket prices on? And there is compensation for tens of thousands of football fans in the Bundesliga and beyond? The mixed situation is currently (still) spongy.
Coronavirus: Borussia Dortmund reimburses BVB fans the ticket prices
Before the Bundesliga game Gladbach against Borussia Dortmund (1: 2) at the weekend, Borussia von Niederrhein had fans from the particularly affected Heinsberg district asked not to come to the game despite cards.
Gladbach now wants to reimburse the ticket prices and the followers for the next home game in the Champions League or Europa League in the Borussia Park invite.
In Paris again the fans were put off for the time being after the police there played a ghost game against the BVB had ordered. The PSG website said: “The fans who put their tickets on ticketplace.psg.fr and season ticket holders will be informed very soon about the terms proposed by Paris Saint-Germain. “
Standard because of corona virus? Empty grandstands in the Bundesliga, here in Düsseldorf.
© picture alliance / dpa / Jonas Güttler
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Borussia Dortmund already informed his fans on Monday afternoon Ticket prices for the canceled away game.
Cancellation of the game due to the corona virus in football: who bears the costs?
“The organizers of sports events may have special insurance against event cancellation. In such event cancellation insurance, damage caused by “epidemics and epidemics” is generally excluded. In our opinion, this also includes the current situation around SARS-CoV-2, ”said the Allianz insurance the Deutschlandfunk. A limited number of insurance companies in turn included epidemics, it was said.
One option is that the state clubs in the Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and possibly also 3. Liga in managing costs through reimbursement of Ticket prices supported. After all, the clubs have provided viewer revenue in their calculations – and from 3rd league this item also affects.
Not to mention other sports. It will also be tricky with a view to the pan-European Football Championship 2020. The DFB international match against Italy also takes place without spectators.
No viewers due to corona virus: Federal Ministry of the Interior comments
“Of course, every organizer who is planning an event can cancel his event himself. First of all, this is something that arises from the thing itself. And as far as regulatory powers are concerned. It is the responsible state authorities, ”said Steve Alter, spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior, to the Deutschlandfunk: “And when you raise the question of the obligation to bear the costs, it depends on who canceled an event, whether it was canceled by the public sector or by the organizers themselves.”
Corona virus: protagonists in the Bundesliga, 2nd Bundesliga and 3rd league sort themselves out
Ergo: Who pays depends on who ultimately canceled the event. At least that’s the theory. Whether clubs like RB Leipzig why hesitate?
Obviously, everyone involved sorts through the resulting economic consequences Corona virus yet.
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