Overview

• Valon Aliji received a two-match suspension and a €750 fine, a penalty already served due to an earlier precautionary ban.
• Defender Julian Weigel was suspended for five competitive matches, which Chemie intends to challenge after the written verdict is issued.
• Presiding judge Steffen Tänzer cited Weigel taking several metres of run-up before striking as a key factor in the harsher ruling.
• The sanctions follow a post-match pitch invasion in Halle during heavy pyrotechnics, where HFC supporters confronted Chemie players and Aliji and Weigel said they acted in self-defence.
• The NOFV has opened disciplinary cases against the clubs with possible fines, games behind closed doors or point deductions, and HFC has accepted a separate ban for Fabrice Hartmann for checking Tim Bunge.