Overview

• Hertha BSC is adding the stripe pattern to the back of its new home jersey to secure DFL approval before its first home game on August 10
• FC Schalke 04 coach Miron Muslic pledged a winning home debut; Stefan Leitl called the opener an “absolute highlight game” demanding intense, planned football
• The DFL will introduce standardized referee announcements, expanded RefCam use, pre-match official meetings, semi-automated offside technology and three-dimensional player-tracking this season
• The August 1 fixture will air live on pay-TV channels Sky and WOW as well as free-to-air Sat.1 and streams on Joyn and ran.de
• If he takes the field, 16-year-old Kennet Eichhorn would become the youngest player ever in 2. Bundesliga history