The fans of Hamburger SV want to make provisions for the affiliation with the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC before the relegation first leg.
As the Berlin club warned via Twitter: “Caution: Outside the guest area (blocks G/H, I and 15-17), wearing fan clothing of the guest team is prohibited. In such cases, our security personnel will deny access to @Oly_Berlin or to the refuse seats”, HSV supporters do not want to take any risks in other areas of the stadium and dress more modestly.
“We recommend wearing HSV fan articles only in the official guest block area,” tweeted the HSV Supporters Club.
Otherwise, the approximately 65,000-strong organization demanded: “All in blue to Berlin!”
HSV reports record numbers in jersey sales
HSV supporters bought significantly more tickets for the game on (today) Thursday (8:30 p.m. / Sky and Sat.1) than the official guest contingent of 7,500.
Hertha speaks of around 15,000 tickets, Hamburg fan organizations even expect up to 25,000 HSV supporters in the Olympic Stadium.
The fan shops in the Hanseatic city are now reporting a sale of jerseys. The diamond shirts have been in demand in the past few weeks like never before, it said.
Around 60,000 jerseys are said to have been sold in the past second division season.