Bundesliga - season start 2021/22 Next Thinking of Corona - Cologne is your own WE

Before the start of the season in the Bundesliga next Friday, Corona and dealing with the incidence figures set a discussion in progress.

The risk of ghosts in the football Bundesliga is not acute right now. Nevertheless, the German elite class, which starts on Friday with the duel between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Master Bayern Munich in her 59th season, again stresses through the Corona Pandemic.

Above all, restrictions on the approval of spectators are feared. "Unfortunately, I am firmly convinced that the rising incidence value has existed and that he will be over 35 to the Bundesliga style," Hertha Sports Managing Director Fredi Bobic had recently been said at SKY and restrictions - depending on the regional conditions - feared.

Will therefore only allow fans who are vaccinated or recovered? Bundesliga club 1. FC Cologne is his own way, plans at the first home game of the new season with 16,500 spectators and will preferably treat vaccinated and recently.

Cologne: Negative test soon no longer sufficient

This G2 Group is intended to make up 15,500 fans at the game against Hertha BSC on 15 August (5:30 pm / Sky). 1000 followers also get inlet with a negative test, these cards should go to children and adolescents.

However, a negative corona test from the second league home game against VfL Bochum should no longer be enough to get to the Rheinenergie Stadium. That reported the WDR. Full vaccination protection or the recent from a corona infection are then basic prerequisites.

The concept for the Hertha game is coordinated with the health office of the city of Cologne and attacks for the time being - and in the context of the currently valid Corona Protection Ordinance - even up to a possible incidence of 100. On Sunday was the value that the number of corona Infections in the Cologne area, at 47.1.

Streit in incidence value

Frankfurt's Sport Stand Markus Krösche wishes a decoupling from the incidence value. If this is not the case, he was a gloomy image in the Kicker: "With decisions of this kind, it will be impossible to keep the professional sport and the event industry permanently alive."

DFB-Interim Co President Peter Peters sees the procedure in England, the Netherlands and Denmark as a model. "If everyone on the highway all meet, who is the problem: the false driver or the others? Our clubs go with the pandemic a lot of responsible responsibly around, as represented by some politician," Peters had said the Sport picture.

DFL speaks clearly for vaccinations

Meanwhile, the clubs shy official information about their vaccination programs for players and staff, but they are likely to run in full swing. Also the German Football League (DFL) urged the dangers of a lack of corona vaccination.

"Who is not vocal for a viral infection than others, is particularly committed to professional football - a professional branch, where you can not bear a distance or mask - a certain risk," it said in a newsletter to the Societies. Most recently, Borussia Dortmund, VfB Stuttgart, the TSG Hoffenheim, FC Bayern and FSV Mainz 05 had given 05 Corona Falls.

For the league, overall, the limitations for league operation during corona is considered as small as possible. Finally, the playing time 2021/22 is the third, which is influenced by the pandemic. All professional clubs long for normal nature and full stages, but the reality looks different right now.

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Bundesliga: all lots on the 1st matchday

Date, Time | Home | Result | guest --- | --- | --- |- 13.08. 20: 30 | Mönchengladbach | -: - | Bayern Munich 14.08. 15: 30 | VFL Wolfsburg | -: - | VfL Bochum 14.08. 15: 30 | Union Berlin | -: - | Bayer Leverkusen 14.08. 15: 30 | VfB Stuttgart | -: - | SPVGG Greuther Fürth 14.08.

15: 30 | FC Augsburg | -: - | 1899 Hoffenheim 14.08. 15: 30 | Arminia Bielefeld | -: - | Sc freiburg 14.08. 18: 30 | Borussia Dortmund | -: - | Eintracht Frankfurt 15.08. 15: 30 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | -: - | RB Leipzig 15.08. 17: 30 | 1. FC Cologne | -: - | Hertha BSC