In the top game against Dortmund
Bayern fans protest against Boateng’s return
Updated 10/18/2025 – 8:03 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
In the top game against Borussia Dortmund, Bayern fans protested against a possible return of Jérôme Boateng.
During FC Bayern’s top game against Borussia Dortmund, many Munich fans protested against the possible return of Jérôme Boateng as a trainee coach. At the beginning of the second half, several protest posters against the former Bayern professional were shown in the south curve.
One read: “Whoever gives the perpetrator space carries his guilt. Fuck off Boateng!”. Another read: “No room for character pigs in our club. No more room for Boateng!” And right next to it another poster said: “No place for perpetrators!”
Bayern head coach Vincent Kompany recently invited Boateng, who has ended his professional career and now wants to become a coach, to an internship. Kompany said at the press conference before the Bundesliga game against Werder Bremen at the end of September that he would “100 percent” welcome it if Boateng would study at Bayern Munich for a few weeks and bring in “his experience as a top defender.”
Boateng reported at the beginning of the week that he had already spoken to Kompany. “I can sit in at Bayern and I’m really looking forward to it. We just have to find the right time,” he told “Bild”.
But many fans of the German record champions don’t like this plan. You have started a petition on the “change.org” platform. This is entitled: “Setting limits against misogynistic violence: Jérôme Boateng is not allowed to return to FC Bayern.” So far, 4,477 people (as of October 18, 8:31 a.m.) have signed the petition.
In the description of the signature collection, the initiators point out that the ex-footballer was warned by a court in 2024 for intentionally causing bodily harm to his ex-girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt. Lenhardt committed suicide in 2021.
In addition to the coach, a spokesman for the club also spoke to “Bild” immediately before the BVB game. He told the newspaper: “Jérôme asked the coach if he could watch the training sessions with us on a few days. That’s not a job. If the coach promises him that and the timing fits, we have nothing against it.” According to the newspaper, it will be an internship lasting around a week.
It is not the first time that fans have resisted Jérôme Boateng’s return to FC Bayern. Two years ago, the then coach Thomas Tuchel considered bringing Boateng to Säbener Straße as a defender. The player was without a contract at the time.