The new Corona measures also hit professional sport with great severity, because spectators are no longer allowed in November. This also puts the Bundesliga in a mess, for which ghost games are now pending.
The Bundesliga will also have to play ghost games again. The Chancellor and Prime Minister want to ban the fans from the stadiums because of the skyrocketing number of infections. At least in November.
Professional sport and thus the Bundesliga will also be affected by the tightened Corona measures. In view of the dramatic increase in the number of infections, the federal and state governments only want to allow the games in November without spectators. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) announced this on Wednesday.
The DFL commented on the decision on Wednesday evening. “In the past few weeks, the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 clubs have spent a lot of time devising hygiene concepts for the effective protection of stadium spectators and coordinating these with the responsible authorities on site. Fans and clubs have hygiene concepts based on this wherever possible – and distance rules are implemented in a disciplined manner almost without exception and have thus met their responsibility. It is therefore regrettable that this is temporarily no longer possible, “said the message, among other things.
Memories of the second half of the Bundesliga season
After the first standstill in March, the German Football League and the German Football Association managed to resume the interrupted game operations in the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga with a sophisticated hygiene concept – initially in front of a ghostly backdrop.
For the current season, the DFL received the green light from politicians to be allowed to fill at least up to 20 percent of the total capacity of the stadiums with spectators. However, the local authorities still had the right to reduce the number of viewers or even to exclude them. After the sudden increase in the number of corona cases, this has recently happened in many places. For the coming weekend, a drastic reduction or the exclusion of fans has already been decreed for numerous games in both leagues.
A reduction in spectator admission to zero brings especially professional team sports leagues in basketball, handball, ice hockey or volleyball into existential difficulties. “The situation is tense. If we are thrown back further, we will be at a loss,” said Frank Bohmann, managing director of the Handball Bundesliga, on Tuesday.
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