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At Lok Leipzig, too, one sees fan work in danger
Photo: Z5326 Thomas Eisenhuth / dpa
The German Football Association (DFB) apparently wants to initiate a new regulation of the financing of socio-educational fan projects in its presidium meeting on Friday.
According to information from SPIEGEL, the association's funding amount is to be capped in a first step, and from 2024 the plan is to withdraw from the regular funding for facilities below the third division.
Since the height of hooligan violence in the 1980s, when right-wing extremism, violence and deaths at football games were the order of the day, fan projects have been set up in many German cities that do socio-educational work in the football field independently of the clubs.
In the ever-current tension field of violence in football, they act as an intermediary between fans, clubs and security authorities in order to defuse conflicts.
The framework conditions for their equal financing were set out in 2012 in the update of the National Concept for Sport and Safety (NKSS).
Since then, the German Football League (DFL) (for the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga) and the DFB (3rd league and below) have supported fan projects with up to 150,000 euros annually per reference club - provided that the public sector (municipalities and Federal states) counter-financed with the same amount.
In 2019, the DFB sponsored 33 fan projects with a total of almost 3.3 million euros.
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