Novelty in the 2nd Bundesliga. VfL Bochum offers its stadium visitors a special offer - this also applies to guests in the Vonovia Ruhr Stadium.
- Second division club VfL Bochum comes up with an innovation.
- VfL is the first professional club in Germany to provide fans with free drinking water.
- The stadium visitors can tap the water themselves.
Bochum - As the first professional football club in Germany, the second division club VfL Bochum will in future supply its fans and guests in the stadium with free, bubbled and filtered bottled water . To this end, the Revierclub has entered into a partnership with the company "Coffee at Work". "For us as an association, ecological, social and economic responsibility play an important role," said Christoph Wortmann, member of the VfL management board. Mineral water is otherwise not offered free of charge in the German stadiums.
VfL Bochum: Visitors can tap free drinking water themselves
Visitors in Bochum can tap the drinking water themselves using special stainless steel devices. The three dispensing stations are equipped with filters from the clinical area and special UV light against recontamination and are connected directly to the drinking water network of the stadium buildings. There is no need to transport and clean reusable bottles, nor to dispose of the waste that otherwise arises from disposable cups or plastic bottles.
VfL Bochum: Revierklub continues to fight against relegation to the 3rd division
The VfL ensures after
Last minute win at Dynamo Dresden
thus continuing for positive headlines. The team from
Trainer Thomas Reis
is still in the relegation battle, the immensely important threesome among the troubled Dresdeners has not changed that. With 26 points, the Bochumers are now in twelfth place, but the advantage over relegation place 16 and Karlsruher SC is only two points. Seventeenth is Wehen Wiesbaden, Dresden has the red lantern as the tail light.
The fans of VfL Bochum also maintain a fan friendship with fans of FC Bayern Munich *. After the Champions League gala against Chelsea London, the FCB suffered a bitter loss - Robert Lewandowski is missing the German record champions for weeks.
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