In just over a month, the derby between Rot-Weiss Essen and MSV Duisburg will take place at the Hafenstraße stadium. All tickets are sold out.

After the start of advance sales, it did not take a week until Rot-Weiss Essen announced “sold out”. All tickets are sold out for the derby against MSV Duisburg. “We are sold out,” Niclas Pieper, press spokesman for Rot-Weiss Essen, confirmed to RevierSport.

A total of 19,000 tickets have been sold for the clash on 5 February (Sunday, 2 p.m., RevierSport live ticker), 2,500 of which went to MSV.

In the first leg of the duel between Rot-Weiss Essen and MSV Duisburg, both clubs drew 2-2 in front of more than 30,000 spectators at the Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena.

Marvin Bakalorz and Moritz Stoppelkamp had put the Zebras in the lead. Then Christoph Drabowski’s team turned up the heat and secured a point thanks to a double strike from Simon Engelmann and Lawrence Ennali between the 68th and 71st minute.

In addition to the Ruhr derby against MSV Duisburg (Sun., 05 February, 14.00), RWE also have other attractive home games on the programme in 2023. For example, the traditional duels against VfL Osnabrück (14 – 15 March), Waldhof Mannheim (14 – 17 April) and 1860 Munich (12 – 15 May) will be played at the stadium on Hafenstraße.

Rot-Weiss Essen, with an average of 16,115 spectators per match, has the second-best attendance in the 3rd division. Only Dynamo Dresden (21,966 fans per game) welcomes even more fans to its home games.

An overview of the attendance figures for Rot-Weiss Essen’s home games:

23 July 2022 – SV Elversberg (1:5): 16,347 spectators.

9 August 2022 – Viktoria Köln (1:4): 15,006 spectators

20 August 2022 – FC Ingolstadt (2:2): 13,507 spectators

2 September 2022 – Erzgebirge Aue (2:1): 16,070 spectators

19 September 2022 – 1. FC Saarbrücken (1:0): 15,907 spectators

15 October 2022 – Dynamo Dresden (1:1): 18,300 spectators

29 October 2022 – FSV Zwickau (1:1): 17,317 spectators

8 November 2022 – SV Meppen (0:0): 16,467 spectators