Overview
- Supporters at Bundesliga and 2. Liga games held 12-minute silences and displayed banners after a large Leipzig march, with an online petition surpassing 60,000 signatures by Sunday.
- State proposals under consideration include personalized tickets, preventive stadium bans, AI-supported controls and tougher pyrotechnics rules.
- Club leaders and football bodies voiced reservations, with Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen rejecting ticket personalization and St. Pauli officials warning against curbing due-process protections.
- Interior ministers signaled different approaches, as Niedersachsen’s Daniela Behrens pressed for stronger measures such as personalized tickets for risk matches, while Sachsen’s Armin Schuster backed keeping club-level ban commissions with DFB oversight and continuing talks on unresolved issues.
- Safety figures from ZIS show injuries around matchdays fell to 1,107 last season, even as separate pyrotechnic incidents, including a brief interruption and postgame fire in Cologne’s guest sector, fueled calls for stricter enforcement.