Sluggling ticket sales in the Bundesliga

Corona fear, too much bureaucracy, weaning? The partly sluggish ticket sale to the Bundesligastart is possibly a warning shot.

Ample empty places in Stuttgart and Wolfsburg, stalling demand in Mainz and Augsburg - and even Dortmund registered a unusual restraint with the fans to the Ligastart. The partly sluggish ticket sales in the Bundesliga has many reasons - and may be a warning shot.

It takes some time, Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke said the newspapers of the funde media group and demonstrated serenity: The one are careful. The others have weaned something.

After one and a half years without viewers, the professional football must seem to work out the favor of the audience again.

What is it that the approved capacities have long been exhausted in all stages? Is it the fear of Corona? Are the bureaucratic hurdles for a stadium visit, for example, for uncovered or children too high? Or are the fans simply weaned?

It's certainly something of everything, Helen said Wide, chairman of the Fan Annunnis our curve, talking to the SID.

Wicked love of football scientifically occupied

In addition to the fear of infectance, the many hurdles that make it difficult to make a stadium visit and the lack of planning security (none knows what's next week), but also sees problems in the pricing policy of the Clubs that have changed in some clubs by changing standing on seat and partial registration.

The clubs should ask themselves the question of whether it is about economic interests in the current time or to enable access to the stadium experience as well as possible, so wide.

The concern for the favor of the spectators does not produce the football merely in this country. In Italy, the sometimes calculated love for Calcio was now even scientifically occupied.

According to a recent survey of opinion research institutes StageUp and IPSO, only still refer to 24.6 million Italians as football fans - this means a decline of 2.6 percent compared to the 2019/20 season (25.5 million fans).

According to the study published by the Gazzetta dello Sport, the declining trend is mainly due to the stadium closed during the pandemic.

Many fans disappointed by the reform jam?

In front of such a development, the former Bavaria Boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had already warned in the fall of 2020. If we do not soon have fans in the stadiums, then I'm afraid, the football will take great damage, said Rummenigge in an interview with the _ picture on Sunday_ and the fear expresses that fans could remain away in the long run, Even if the arenas are fully open again.

This must only show himself, but certain start-up difficulties can also be identified in Germany. Before the pandemic, it describes Helen wide, many have aligned their lives on the Bundesliga game plan, now has fallen at some the priority of football in life planning.

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In addition, many people in organized fans scene are still disappointed with the reform jam. In the last one and a half years, a lot has been discussed about the future of professional football, wide, has been implemented so far.