Due to the Corona situation, only a maximum of 15,000 spectators are allowed in the Bundesliga stadiums. But that’s not the case this weekend. A patchwork quilt threatens, and the question: How many fans are allowed in which stadium?
For many football fans, the results from the federal-state conference on Wednesday should have provided some relief. Nationwide ghost games were not initially decided.
However, there is an upper limit: only a maximum of 15,000 spectators are allowed in the stadiums. In addition, the stadium may only be filled up to 50 percent of its actual capacity. However, there are also federal states in which ghost games are arranged. The decisive criterion for this is the incidence value. From full capacity to ghost games, everything is available in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga at the weekend.
Millerntor Stadium is sold out
There will not be more than 15,000 spectators in any Bundesliga stadium this weekend. Things are different in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Different rules apply to the games between FC St. Pauli and Schalke 04 and between Hannover 96 and Hamburger SV. The Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg will even be sold out for the top game in the second division on Saturday evening (from 8.30 p.m. in the live ticker on t-online). Around 23,000 spectators are expected in Hanover.
Why are more fans allowed into the stadiums than the upper limit stipulates?
The reason for this is quite simple. As a spokesman for the Hamburg interior authority confirmed, the restrictions on major events in Hamburg should not come into force until next week. The same applies in Lower Saxony. But: Due to the dynamic situation, short-term changes are possible. In such a case, the clubs would have to react quickly.
While ghost games are ordered in Saxony and Bavaria, a maximum of 1,000 people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are allowed to watch the second division game between Hansa Rostock and FC Ingolstadt live. In Baden-Württemberg, only 750 spectators are allowed to attend the matches. “For us, this decision is of course synonymous with a return to so-called ghost games,” said TSG managing director Frank Briel, which is why Hoffenheim will do without the 750 spectators in the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Here is an overview of how many people are currently allowed to attend Bundesliga games at the weekend:
- Union Berlin-RB Leipzig: 13,000 spectators
- TSG Hoffenheim-Eintracht Frankfurt: no spectators
- FC Augsburg-VfL Bochum: no spectators
- Bayer Leverkusen-Greuther Fürth: 15,000 spectators
- Arminia Bielefeld-1. FC Cologne: 8,000 spectators
- FSV Mainz-VfL Wolfsburg: 15,000 spectators
- Borussia Dortmund-FC Bayern: 15,000 spectators
- VfB Stuttgart-Hertha BSC: 750 spectators
- Borussia Mönchengladbach-SC Freiburg: still unknown
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