Rot-Weiss Essen traveled to the derby in Duisburg with almost 4,000 fans. That’s why Alemannia Aachen gets more tickets for the MSV game.
Around two weeks ago, Rot-Weiss Essen played away at MSV Duisburg in the derby. The match ended 1-1 in front of 27,719 spectators. The reason the game was not sold out was that Essen were not allocated nearly 5,000 tickets as in previous years, but only 3,945 for safety reasons.
While the reduction in tickets was not a big issue immediately before or after the game, there is now a lot of excitement among RWE fans.
The reason: rival and league competitor Alemannia Aachen will receive a total of 4,800 tickets for the away game in Duisburg on November 29 (2 p.m.) – over 800 more than RWE. Frustration spread on social media, as the fifth-placed team would have liked to travel to the prestigious duel with almost 5,000 supporters.
MSV Duisburg’s press spokesman explains: This is why Alemannia Aachen is getting more tickets than RWE
This editorial team asked Martin Haltermann (Head of Communications & media at MSV Duisburg). The MSV press spokesman replied: “These buffer blocks were included in the preliminary planning for the game against Rot-Weiss Essen, which is why we arrived at a figure of less than 4,000. That is not necessary in this case against Alemannia Aachen.”
The authorities therefore seem to assess the risk potential for the Duisburg game against Aachen as lower than for the game against Rot-Weiss Essen. Alemannia fans have already made negative headlines this season: after the home game against Erzgebirge Aue on September 30, Aachen fans attacked two vehicles with trailers from the Erzgebirge. At the intersection of Krefelder Straße and Eulersweg, about ten masked individuals attacked a car and a minibus as they stopped at a red light.
The perpetrators struck the vehicles, smashed windows, and forcibly opened a door of the car to steal a backpack. A total of twelve fans were sitting in the vehicles, four of whom were slightly injured by glass splinters. The police provisionally arrested a total of four people that evening.