The federal states are divided on the sensitive question of professional football clubs’ contribution to police costs for high-risk games. The judgment has the potential for conflict.
Now things could get really expensive for German professional football. After a ten-year legal battle over police costs, the German Football League failed before the Federal Constitutional Court, meaning that clubs could be charged the additional costs for high-risk games in the future. As a pioneer, Bremen’s Interior Senator Ulrich Mäurer acknowledged the verdict with a broad grin, and the DFL representatives were very disappointed.
The German Football Association even sees a “competitive disadvantage for Germany as a football location” and assesses the threat of fee notices for many clubs, especially in the 3rd league and the regional league, as potentially “threatening their existence”. In the future, all federal states could allow their professional clubs to contribute to the expenses that arise if more police officers than usual have to appear at games with an expected number of rioters.
This inevitably leads to the question: Is it right to ask the clubs to pay?
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