Overview
- DFB and DFL outlined prevention-focused steps, including more funding for fan projects, additional fan and security officers at clubs, and a new central DFB oversight body for stadium-ban procedures while local commissions continue to issue bans.
- League and federation leaders rejected blanket ticket personalization, broad cuts to away allocations, and the idea of authorities withholding approval of club security concepts.
- Nationwide fan networks issued an open letter criticizing the BLoAG process as opaque, demanding transparency and inclusion, and asking interior ministers to halt further decisions at the early December IMK meeting.
- Fan groups plan a demonstration in Leipzig on November 16 under the motto “The football is safe,” with 1,500 participants registered according to the city; Germany’s national team plays there the next day.
- Police-derived ZIS data for 2024/25 report 1,107 injuries, down 17%, indicating a very low per-visit risk, even as recent public fan clashes have intensified political pressure ahead of a mid-November pre-conference and the IMK in Bremen from December 3–5.