Fewer guests
Demo before the Ministry: Eintracht fans protest
26.02.2025 – 12:53 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
There are fewer tickets for guest fans at the Lower Saxony Sender in Hanover. Braunschweig supporters are therefore planning a protest march.
At the upcoming Lower Saxony Sender between Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig on March 9th in Hanover, there will be restrictions for guest fans. As in the first leg in Braunschweig, fewer supporters of the guest team are allowed to the stadium. In response to this, the Braunschweig fans announced a protest march in Hanover.
Under the motto “against guest fan restrictions – fan culture non -negotiates!” The Eintracht supporters are planning a demonstration on February 27th. The march should lead from the main train station to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport. The fan groups see a restriction of their fan culture in the ticket limit. Already at the first leg in Braunschweig there were similar protests against reduced maps of maps to guest fans.
The criticism is aimed at Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD), who had significantly supported the decision to reduce the guest manager to 60 percent. Because of the repeated riots before, during or after the games between the rival clubs in Lower Saxony, she even called for a complete exclusion of guest fans at the derbies last year.
Even before the first leg in Braunschweig, to which fewer 96 fans had caused the stadium, both fan camps protested separately against each other. The ultras of both clubs finally stayed away from the derby itself. The supporters of Eintracht Braunschweig already announced a boycott for the upcoming duel in Hanover.
The Hanover police department had ordered the partial exclusion in early February. She relies on paragraph 11 of the Lower Saxony police and regulatory authorities law, according to which she can “take the necessary measures to ward off dangers”.
In front of an inn in the Gifhorn district, there had been a mass brawl between the rival fan camps after the game in early October: At that time, numerous ultras from both camps had beaten up in the restaurant. Eintracht-Ultras had met in the inn to watch the game together. Hanoverian Ultra’s access is said to have gained access through a side entrance.