Copenhagen derby with away fans: 8 arrests, the referee removes a seat from the pitch

After a march through the city, television footage showed masked Brøndby fans tearing up seats inside the Parken stadium.

Sunday afternoon 7 August was a wild Copenhagen derby at the Parken stadium with nets’ poker trimmed from Copenhagen to Brondby, but off the pitch things went very badly for some people: eight people were arrested.

This is confirmed by the Copenhagen police

“We have eight arrests and one administrative detention. Of these, five people were arrested after the game,” Trine Møller, police inspector of the Copenhagen police, told Ekstra Bladet.

Two of those arrested were arrested in the perimeter of the stadium, writes the Danish newspaper. It is not known whether it was related to the broken seats in the away sector, where some of the Brøndby fans destroyed the seats to throw the plastic pieces onto the pitch.

The referee also had to remove a stadium seat from the pitch after the fans threw it from the stands.

FC Copenhagen won the derby with a clear 4-1.

The match was also the first Copenhagen derby with the entrance open to visiting fans. It should also be remembered that in a joint statement on Sunday, FC Copenhagen and Brøndby had asked for peace and order among their fans ahead of the derby …

The two Copenhagen stadiums had already been opened to home fans, in 2022, in the two derbies of the spring.