Overview
- Supporters across the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga fell silent for the opening 12 minutes, with banners in Berlin, Bochum and Mainz as the protest moved from streets to stadiums.
- Fan groups object to proposed measures including personalized tickets, a central body for stadium bans, AI-driven face surveillance and bans imposed on suspicion, with one reported draft tying the start of a criminal probe to an automatic three-month ban.
- DFB and DFL issued a joint statement rejecting collective administrative steps such as mandatory ticket personalisation and reduced away allocations, arguing they are ineffective and unjustifiable to millions of matchgoers.
- Several clubs voiced support for the concerns, with 1. FC Köln calling the silence painful but understandable, Hertha BSC’s chief pledging to uphold fan culture, and 1. FC Kaiserslautern’s spokesman criticizing suspicion-based bans and centralized oversight.
- A large Leipzig demonstration preceded the stadium actions, and decisions or concrete steps could follow at the Interior Ministers’ Conference in Bremen from Dec. 3 to 5.