Overview
- Before the late-August match at Dresden, the Schalke-Fanclub-Verband and CEO Matthias Tillmann urged supporters to stop the chant as discriminatory.
- The chant was nevertheless heard multiple times in the second half of the 1–0 win in Dresden, according to match reporting.
- In their Blauer Brief magazine distributed before the Kiel game, Ultras Gelsenkirchen downplayed the chant as polemical football rhetoric rather than a personal attack.
- Local reports indicate it is likely the chant could be heard again at 1. FC Magdeburg on Saturday, a possibility rather than a confirmed plan.
- Recent Schalke visits to Magdeburg featured violent clashes in February 2024 and a major police operation in August 2024, underscoring current security concerns.