Dortmund's support

[Ruhr]

and soon the best supported team in Bundesliga 2

I'd be careful saying things like that Ruhr, they might set the dogs on you again!

haha, we can still bring the lions back to the match

 

[scotty123]

They only wnt for the beer, great weekend

 

[harry the plumber]

Best German supporters I have ever seen along with Schalke. Munich win it every year but Dortmund always match them for support.
I went there with City last year and every pub and every shop in the town as Dortmund flags or scarves in it.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Top the Champions League group but at the arse end of the Bundeslegia?
Something not quite right there....

 

[Bembeltown]

Wonder where you got the 15000 away fans from? According to the German media they took 10000, which is still impressive, but a slightly smaller number.

Dortmund (just like Bayern) have fans everywhere in Germany due to their recent success, so they are usually travelling in huge numbers, but I have more respect for Berlin taking 3000 fans to Freiburg on a Friday night than Dortmund taking 10000 to Berlin on a Saturday, especially considering the supporter base they have.

But of course they are the best fans in the world...I mean they showed incredible support for their team in Berlin and that just two weeks after booing their team off the pitch in Frankfurt. ;)

The media hype around Dortmund and their #Echte Liebe Bullshit just makes me sick...

By the way..we took 12000 to Bordeaux on a Thursday night (1155 km one way) while having only a local supporter base, clearly that makes us better fans according to the logic in this thread, right? :)

Oh wait...we dont got fancy hashtag slogans and are not the hipsters team no 1.

 

[Damocles]

Dortmund are the team that every Yank tosser who doesn't want to be called a gloryhunter supports. In addition to this, they are part of the Bundesliga - the most patronising sets of dickhead fans in the entire world. They are so up their own arse that you literally hear people say "I'm a fan of the Bundesliga because of cheap ticket prices and great support" when they live in India or Poland or something. The entire brand of the Bundesliga is "We are not the Premier League".

Hope Dortmund go down. They deserve it for being a bunch of hipster wankers, operating entirely as a PR outlet and watching naive fans buy into it. The only German club I'd piss on if they were on fire is Hamburg because they manage to retain some sense of not being self-aggrandising wankers whilst being surrounded by them. Hamburg also actually comes from right near the ancient lands of the Angles who put the Anglo in Anglo-Saxon, which is probably why they are much less of a dickhead than the Bavarian wankers and the Rhine-Ruhr hipsters.

If Bayern Munich are the rags of Germany - the people blinded by their own arrogance and success, Dortmund must surely be the Arsenal of Germany; supported by the footballing hipsters who want to have conversations about gegenpressing, read Zonal Marking every day and bang on about how classy they are whilst missing the irony that pointing that out makes you a ****.

 

[Ruhr]

Ruhr hipsters.

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Who are those guys? Sounds nice to me :-)

 

[City1974]

They just lost again to Hertha Berlin and are 3rd from bottom, but......... they took 15,000 to a league game, 300 miles away. We did this once or twice, but until we get standing back, its looks like German football is far better for supporters than here. Are they now the best supported team away, in the world? (based on other countries fans not travelling in numbers due to distances involved)

If teams in England allowed away support of up to 15,000 would not some teams here also take up that many tickets to certain away games particularly if prices were lower i.e. City away at Utd or City away at Stoke etc,

Is it not that home teams here simply do not provide that many away tickets for any games. Even in the FA Cup rounds there is not that no. of away tickets allowed.

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

They just lost again to Hertha Berlin and are 3rd from bottom, but......... they took 15,000 to a league game, 300 miles away. We did this once or twice, but until we get standing back, its looks like German football is far better for supporters than here. Are they now the best supported team away, in the world? (based on other countries fans not travelling in numbers due to distances involved)

If teams in England allowed away support of up to 15,000 would not some teams here also take up that many tickets to certain away games particularly if prices were lower i.e. City away at Utd or City away at Stoke etc,

Is it not that home teams here simply do not provide that many away tickets for any games. Even in the FA Cup rounds there is not that no. of away tickets allowed.

Nail on head

If we had that sort of away allocation we would take 15,000 too

Especially if it was away to a North west team

 

[City1974]

They just lost again to Hertha Berlin and are 3rd from bottom, but......... they took 15,000 to a league game, 300 miles away. We did this once or twice, but until we get standing back, its looks like German football is far better for supporters than here. Are they now the best supported team away, in the world? (based on other countries fans not travelling in numbers due to distances involved)

If teams in England allowed away support of up to 15,000 would not some teams here also take up that many tickets to certain away games particularly if prices were lower i.e. City away at Utd or City away at Stoke etc,

Is it not that home teams here simply do not provide that many away tickets for any games. Even in the FA Cup rounds there is not that no. of away tickets allowed.

Nail on head

If we had that sort of away allocation we would take 15,000 too

Especially if it was away to a North west team

In general also the Premier League is better at filling stadiums than other European leagues.

http://www.fanengagement.nl/news/premier-league-highest-stadium-sellout-rate-europe/

The Germans have larger stadiums (mainly due to expansions for the 2006 World Cup), but occupancy is not quite as high overall.

Mind you with Bayern in apparent total domination of German football are German fans slightly feed up that their team have little chance of competing with Bayern when they meet them .

Be interesting to see when City, Spurs, Liverpool and West Ham have larger capacity stadiums how the overall average attendance in the Premier League will compare with the German League.