“Makes me angry”
Frankfurt boss attacks his own fans
December 26, 2025 – 1:55 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Supporters of Eintracht had recently repeatedly generated negative headlines. Club boss Mathias Beck is now clear – for certain reasons.
The recent appearance of the active fan scene of the Bundesliga soccer club Eintracht Frankfurt is causing sharp criticism within their own ranks. “These things don’t just make me angry. The events in Cologne and Barcelona are doing us massive damage,” said President Mathias Beck to the Bild newspaper.
According to the European Football Union (Uefa), Eintracht supporters recently ignited pyrotechnics, damaged the toilets in the guest area and threw objects during the away game in the Champions League at FC Barcelona. UEFA therefore decided that the SGE will not be allowed to sell guest tickets at Qarabag Agdam in Azerbaijan on January 21st. According to rulings by the DFB sports court this year, the club also had to pay almost seven-figure fines for fan misconduct.
“It also makes me very angry, and of course something has to be done if success is jeopardized by it,” said Beck, who has been in office as Peter Fischer’s successor since 2024 and wants to run again: “We, but above all the fan scene itself, have to get the issue under control, but we have to stick to it consistently.” Board member Philipp Reschke is currently working on “solutions”.
Beck still wants to stay in touch with the fan scene. Some “danced out of the ranks to the detriment of everyone else. And that’s exactly why we can’t punish entire groups or condemn our fan scene across the board,” said Beck: “We shouldn’t stray too far from each other, because then, I think, we’ll have real problems.”