saafend_seagull
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Will have 76,000 for a second division game next week!
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Hertha Berlin
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house your seagull
Train à Grande Vitesse
i was there in september and there were 55k ... tickets were between €8-12 then and it's one of the most beautiful stadiums in europe.
Nottseagull
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kikapu
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sir albion
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Wow thats pretty dam special
True. But their attendances do vary, they have very fickle fans. If they're near the top they sell out, otherwise 40-50k. When they were in with a shout of the title 2 years back they had a long run of very big crowds. Following season when they were relegated crowds were sometimes down in the 30s.
Great team though, and as you say, impressive stadium.
Marko Pantelic was up front when I used to watch them....he popped up to put one past Northern Ireland on Friday.
Beach Hut
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We went there October before last and it was a very pleasant afternoon day out
Must be a "cracking" atmosphere there, positively "rocking" in fact.
Chamberpot
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- Jan 5, 2010
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Nice stadium, but hertha have gone down in recent years. Hopefully they'll be in the bundesliga for next season
kalinski
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They're two points clear in the 2. Bundesliga
. Ausburg in 2nd place will make their first ever top division appearance next season if they go up with them,
brighton terra
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Some 20 years ago a friend and I helped another mate move back from Berlin to Alfriston. With a bit of time to kill we thought we'd check out the Olympic Stadium. Much to our surprise a match was about to kick off between Hertha and the very unfashionable Zwichau(?) in the second division. We ended up sitting within the away fans; most of which were rural East German folk, kitted out in fetching hand-knitted jumpers and scarfs.
We joined in with all the chanting not having much of a clue what we were saying. The one that really sticks in my mind was the response to the Hertha team being announced. Much as we shout 'shit' or words to that effect, they shouted 'arschloch' which translates as arsehole. I have no idea what the score was but we had a great time!
We joined in with all the chanting not having much of a clue what we were saying. The one that really sticks in my mind was the response to the Hertha team being announced. Much as we shout 'shit' or words to that effect, they shouted 'arschloch' which translates as arsehole. I have no idea what the score was but we had a great time!
Football in Germany has really changed over the last few years. In the olden days, their fans were very fickle. Back in the 90s I remember going to see Hertha BSC vs. 1860 Munich in front of 10,000 at a very empty Olympiastadion.
In fact in those days, teams could be relegated from the 1. Bundesliga to play in front of hundreds, or a few thousand, when in the top league they had 30,000+.
Nowadays they are much more loyal, so you can get 5 figure crowds well into the third division (a division only recently created to take account of this). And the 1. Bundesliga attendances have just gone up and up, especially with the batch of newer 50 - 75k capacity places.
In fact in those days, teams could be relegated from the 1. Bundesliga to play in front of hundreds, or a few thousand, when in the top league they had 30,000+.
Nowadays they are much more loyal, so you can get 5 figure crowds well into the third division (a division only recently created to take account of this). And the 1. Bundesliga attendances have just gone up and up, especially with the batch of newer 50 - 75k capacity places.
house your seagull
Train à Grande Vitesse
that many in a roofless OS must have been very strange
It was. No atmosphere at all, like a reserve match...
The same fixture hasn't happened yet this season, but 1860 Munich are not a small team (the Man City of Germany, right down to the colours), it'll be at least 50,000 this year - maybe even up to the 70,000 again.
The Germans seems to have completely changed their attitude to lower league football over the last 15 - 20 years. Now if they can just get rid of the second "Amateure" teams in the third division (e.g. Bayern II, Werder Bremen II etc.), it'll all be sorted.
The same fixture hasn't happened yet this season, but 1860 Munich are not a small team (the Man City of Germany, right down to the colours), it'll be at least 50,000 this year - maybe even up to the 70,000 again.
The Germans seems to have completely changed their attitude to lower league football over the last 15 - 20 years. Now if they can just get rid of the second "Amateure" teams in the third division (e.g. Bayern II, Werder Bremen II etc.), it'll all be sorted.