Officially, FC Bayern Munich announced on Saturday for the first time since March 8, 2020, with 75,000 spectators sold out Allianz Arena. But those who looked around in the long run, discovered some free places. A phenomenon that is much more significant in other stages of the country. For Fan Researcher Prof. Dr. med. Harald Large is the viewer loss not to explain alone with the Corona pandemic.
There are two reasons crossing each other, said long in conversation with Spot and Goal and first called the Corona Pandemic: While you give yourself the passion and emotionality of football, At the same time wearing the concern for contagion or whether the hygiene measures are mature, with them. At the same time, the inlet controls and the personalization of the tickets ensure light discomfort. The stadium visit is not quite as frees as if two, three years ago.
But that alone would be too short. According to Long Games just as the starting internationalization and alienation of football of the fans we could watch at the beginning of the pandemic a role. Based on a commercial criticism, which was the domain of active fans scenes, who oppose the DFB and partly against the DFL and called for a different form and organization of football, with the pandemic in the middle of the pandemic Society arrived, said Large.
In the course of the start of the Corona Pandemic, citations have been given to the beginning of the Corona Pandemic, led a long time: The special role of football, which could continue playing the game in pandemia times with ghosts, has led to the approval for the Football has decreased.
Previously, full stages were quasi a self-runner. One needed the goals just open, then the people came in. In some clubs, in the past, it was difficult to get tickets at all. Therefore, I can definitely understand that the responsible persons in German football did not have to worry about it, How you recruit fans. They just came, Large said.
Fan Researcher sees Danger that fans are lost permanently
But even when starting at the beginning of the season 2020/21 under conditions, a sub-return of the fans was allowed, some clubs stayed on tickets. This lost football on reputation and credibility. This swings on the horizon, said long. Due to the pandemic, sand has come into the gear. There is a risk that at this or that place uses a card house effect and the success of the professional football is suddenly affected. The longer this phase of stagnation takes, the greater the danger that is the risk that The fans are actually lost permanently.
Currently, more and more clubs rely on the 2G rule, the stadium visit is thus only allowed in vaccinated or geneses. Through this rule, the clubs should theoretically burden the stages again, yet many places still remain empty. Such last in Frankfurt, when RB Leipzig, instead of the 51,500 possible viewers, only 31,000 people found their way into the stadium. SGE board Axel Hellman talked in the FAZ given the absence of 20,000 season ticket holders from the absence of the tribe milieus.
Even elsewhere remained or remain the members of the active fans scene away the stadiums. As reasons, among other things, further prevailing restrictions or personalization of the tickets are cited. Gradually, the Ultras also returns to the stadiums — just as on Saturday at the game of Bayern against Sc Freiburg (2: 1).
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That s double-edged. On the one hand, it s a pity, because this missed the mood and the atmosphere. If they are back now, the atmosphere is back, then there are choreographies again, Large said. But what happens on the weekend? They are critical, sports policy active and then praise your own club — as with Bayern Munich — but sometimes a real broadside pure and ask: where is your moral conscience? My forecast is that We will see these pictures all winter about every return of any ultra-group.
With a banner trailer criticized in the southern curve the Qatar sponsoring. For a long time the exchange is also important about such topics. It underlines that we need to lead the debates for commercialization in the clubs and the DFL, emphasized the owner of the Chair of Sports Science at the University of Würzburg.
In dealing with the pandemic and with regard to the hygiene concept for players and spectators, long the club and DFL certified a good job. Upon handling with the commercial criticism: Those who have seen the professional football in the past exclusively so that he serves the purpose of money maximization must be relativized in their attitude. You need to open the look again for the social meaning of football.
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Finally, the football is historically, especially in crises of particular relevance. The football has always sent the embassy, we belong together and let s move in a strand. That takes place much too little right now. This potential would have to be opened again, underlined long.
In view of increasing infection numbers, the debate about fans in the stadiums could soon go back to another direction. It depends on which sociopolitical decisions are made, said Large. When there are Lockdowns again, there are ghost games again. But I think every politician tries to avoid exactly this question and hoping to get along somehow without Lockdown.
Should it come to a new Lockdown, he fears: If that should be the case, the very massive air from the emotion chamber leaves football and the alienation and the loss of fans continues. That would be quite bad for football. But that s not the most important question. Our most important question is our safety and our health.
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Spectator table of the Bundesliga:
Place | Club | Home Games | Spectators 11. Petals | Viewers total | Spectator - 1. | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | — | 246.521 | 41,086 2. | Bayern Munich | 6 | 75,000 | 230,000 | 38.333 3rd | 1. FC Cologne | 6 | 49,000 | 205,100 | 34,183 4. | RB Leipzig | 6 | 43.429 | 174.385 | 29.064 5. | VfB Stuttgart | 6 | 33,550 | 156.915 | 26,152
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