Corona rules in the stadiums are still open

Borussia Dortmund has already canceled as a precaution. Not the top game in itself, but the sale of tickets for the duel on Saturday with Bayern Munich (6.30 p.m. / in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky). After all, like all Bundesliga clubs, BVB knows that they are facing restrictions. But how exactly the audience question will be clarified in view of the acute corona situation – nobody knows yet.

Before the announcement of the Dortmund sales stop on Wednesday, a short message from FC Augsburg had already made the confusing situation clear. He is planning for the upcoming home game against VfL Bochum with a stadium load of 25 percent, the FCA said. As a result, the people of Fuggerstadt either want to move to Hesse or rebel against their state government.

After all, there should be ghost games in Bavaria in the future, while Hessen wants to release a quarter of the capacity. In any case, these are the announcements made by the prime ministers before the new federal-state consultations on Thursday. As of now, a patchwork quilt will come out with a view to professional sport. But the past has shown that everything can turn out very differently.

It is possible that Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder will prevail with his call for nationwide encounters in camera. The CSU politician receives support from Baden-Württemberg and also from Saxony, where the ghost game regulation already applies. In Berlin, only 5,000 viewers should be allowed, Lower Saxony is thinking about reducing capacities, in Rhineland-Palatinate the 2G regulation still applies and Hamburg wants to join a “nationwide regulation”.

This is exactly what the President of the German Association of Cities is calling for. “Sports events with full ranks are no longer part of the time and should take place without an audience on site,” said Markus Lewe (CDU) to the editorial network Germany. The outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and her designated successor Olaf Scholz (SPD) discussed the corona situation with the heads of government of the federal states on Tuesday. The calls for tightening the protective measures and restrictions had become louder in the past few days. The reason for this is the high number of infections and the spread of the new Omikron variant.