Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is offering its fans a Christmas sing-along again this year. It is in high demand.

Christmas singing with and for fans has become fashionable for many clubs and is now part of the calendar for many clubs before the festive season, like a season opening. Rot-Weiß Oberhausen has also jumped on this bandwagon and is offering its supporters a Christmas sing-along in the Niederrhein Stadium for the fourth time this year.

And it is proving very popular with RWO fans. The club has now announced that 1,500 tickets have already been sold for this event on December 7, 2014. This means that only 500 tickets remain. Due to last year’s high demand, the capacity has already been increased.

This year, the Christmas sing-along will have space for 2,000 guests. “After just three weeks, more than 1,500 tickets had already been sold, which underlines the great anticipation and interest in this special event,” the club now writes on its homepage. “The Christmas singing in the stadium, which evo and RWO are jointly organizing, has become a beloved tradition in recent years, bringing together people from across the region to sing the most beautiful Christmas carols together and get in the mood for the festive season.”

The stage and the Christmas market in front of the RevierKraft grandstand will also be larger. The event will kick off at 3:00 p.m. on the festively decorated forecourt. The singing itself will begin at 6:00 p.m. and the event will end around 8:30 p.m. Admission costs €8 per person (children aged 5 to 14: €4). For the first time, there is also the option to purchase VIP tickets for €90, which include a buffet and drinks.

Christmas classics, Christmas pop songs and atmospheric and funny pieces for the Advent season will be sung together with the singer Nito Torres.

It all began in 2003 at Union Berlin, when a few “Eisern Union” football fans met secretly in the stadium for the first time to sing Christmas carols.