Overview
- Police ZIS figures for 2024/25 report 1107 match-related injuries, a 17% decline, which football bodies cite to argue stadiums remain broadly safe.
- Recent clashes at Cologne and Hannover stations and other third places have heightened public concern despite the reassuring statistics.
- DFL and DFB propose more funding for social-pedagogical fan projects, additional club fan officers, and stronger roles for safety chiefs and stadium alliances.
- The DFB plans a new central supervisory body to standardize stadium-ban procedures, with local commissions retained and decisions to rest on proven facts rather than collective sanctions.
- League leadership rejects blanket ticket personalization, guest-ticket cuts, or authority vetoes of club security plans, as nationwide fan networks condemn the closed BLoAG process and urge a halt before the early-December interior ministers’ meeting.