VfL Bochum refers to paragraph 18
Paragraph 18, point four states: “If a national game is stopped prematurely through no fault of either team, it must be repeated at the same place. If a team or its club or both clubs are at fault for the game being stopped, the game belongs to the Guilty with 0:2 goals lost, the innocent with 2:0 goals won.”
On Friday evening, assistant referee Christian Gittelmann was hit in the head on the sidelines from one of the front rows by a filled beer mug. The encounter was initially interrupted after almost 70 minutes and then stopped. The police are investigating aggravated assault.