Even if there is a de jure ban on all spectators at the games in Bavaria, the spectators are looking for ways to watch the games.
District - 1895 spectators followed the 1-1 draw between third division relegated Carl-Zeiss Jena and SV Babelsberg at the start of the season in the Regionalliga Nordostas last week. That was exactly 1895 fans more than in the several hundred test matches on Bavarian soil last week. No spectators are allowed in the Free State - at least officially. Because despite the prohibition of the Bavarian state government, viewers look for and find gaps in order to be there at football.
Restaurants as "permitted grandstands"?
Clubs with a public restaurant, such as TSV Altenstadt, are in a relatively comfortable location. Legally, the visitors who sit on the terrace and watch the football game from there are rated as guests of the restaurant and not as spectators. The Bavarian Football Association recently specified this in coordination with the Bavarian State Government. Pure club houses that are run by volunteers from the club and some of which have large open spaces far from the pitch, such as at SV Polling or ASV Habach, are not allowed to host guests.
However, this does not mean that the fans can be completely excluded from football, even if. like in Peiting, the sports area is simply cordoned off after all players, supervisors and referees are in the stadium. If the courts are right next to a street, and there are many of them in the region, after the start of the game, the interested "strollers" gather behind the fence to - including a quarter-hour break at half-time - take a 105-minute break during which they happen to be Look towards the sports field.
Onlookers give a bad picture for football
However, this situation only has disadvantages for the clubs. Pictures in the newspaper with fans on the fence in the background look bad, and there is no way of observing distance rules. In addition, if the spectators were entertained during test matches, the clubs could certainly earn one or two euros. Which is a big problem in view of the large holes in the cash register as the clubs have not had any income since March. The situation will not change for the time being. The Bavarian Ministry of Health has extended the sixth Bavarian Infection Protection Measures Ordinance, which would have expired last Sunday, to September 2nd. This means that viewers remain officially excluded. ROLAND HALMEL