Overview
- Supporters across Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga matches observed a 12-minute silence and unfurled banners challenging proposals such as personalized tickets, preventive stadium bans, AI-supported checks and stricter pyrotechnics rules before the 3–5 December IMK.
- State officials differ on next steps: Lower Saxony’s Daniela Behrens presses for binding plans on personalized tickets at risk games, tighter entry controls and tougher ban guidelines, while Saxony’s Armin Schuster backs implementing agreed stadium‑ban standards with DFB oversight and continuing talks on tickets and pyrotechnics.
- FC Bayern CEO Jan‑Christian Dreesen expressed understanding for the protests, opposing mandatory personalization and warning against turning discretionary bans into automatic measures without transparent evidence.
- FC St. Pauli executives criticized the process and due‑process risks, and DFB/DFL representatives signaled that collectively applied measures like mandatory ticket personalization or cutting away allocations are neither effective nor acceptable.
- Context from ZIS shows reported injuries around matchdays fell to 1,107 in the 2024/25 season with over 20 million attendees, a figure fans use to argue that stadium visits are already statistically safe.