Borussia Dortmund will play its first home game of the new calendar year in the Bundesliga on Friday evening. From 8:30 p.m., BVB will have SC Freiburg as a guest and with another win they want to jump to three points at least for one night against front-runner FC Bayern Munich. Since Tuesday it has also been clear how many spectators can be there live in the stadium.
The Minister of Health of North Rhine-Westphalia, Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU), namely the new Corona Protection Ordinance which will come into force next Thursday in North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to the new regulation, spectators in the Bundesliga duel between table runners-up BVB and the guests from Breisgau are allowed to enter the Signal Iduna Park, which holds almost 81,000 spectators – but only a fraction of the maximum capacity.
As the minister explained, an upper limit of 750 spectators applies to all major events in North Rhine-Westphalia, whether indoors or outdoors. BVB’s Bundesliga games are also covered by this new regulation.
In addition to BVB, Cologne and Gladbach are also affected by the new regulation
Last week, no fans were allowed at all at the start of the second half of the season in the North Rhine-Westphalia stadiums. This affected the games Bayer Leverkusen against Union Berlin (2: 2) and VfL Bochum against VfL Wolfsburg (1: 0)
A general upper limit for major events of any kind was recently sharply criticized by BVB managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke when he said in the “Spiegel” interview: “It would have been correct to allow a percentage of the stadium capacity. 8000 spectators can be seen in Signal Iduna Park and distribute it with our infrastructure in such a way that they physically have next to nothing to do with each other. “
In addition to Borussia Dortmund, 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga will also be affected by the new Corona Protection Ordinance this coming weekend. Effzeh has FC Bayern Munich as a guest, Gladbach is up against Bayer Leverkusen.
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