Almost twice as many season tickets as at the same time a year ago have been sold by MSV. 16 new players will appear at the first test on Wednesday.

MSV Duisburg can rely on its fans after relegation. Season ticket sales for the Regionalliga West are going well – better than at this point in League 3.

You can tell that the supporters are looking forward to the revamped MSV. New coach, new squad, the hope is back that things will get better. Expressed in figures: the “Zebras” have already sold 3145 season tickets. At the same time a year ago, there were only 1657.

What a sign for the team, which will show itself to the fans for the first time on Wednesday. At SV Sonsbeck (June 26, 7 p.m., Forecasting live ticker, Willy-Lemkens-Sportpark).

The team already played against Sonsbeck in 2019 and 2021 in preparation, when they beat the Niederrhein-Oberliga club, who finished eighth in the previous season, 3:0 and 6:0 respectively.

The Willy-Lemkens-Sportpark will open its doors at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and in view of the large number of spectators expected, Sonsbeck are asking everyone to arrive early. Tickets priced at 10 euros (concessions 5 euros, free admission for children under 15) are only available at the box office.

Many familiar faces will no longer be present on the MSV side. With Maximilian Braune, Batuhan Yavuz, Joshua Bitter, Tobias Fleckstein and Jonas Michelbrink, only five men from the relegated squad remain.

With Alexander Hahn (Preußen Münster), Jan-Simon Symalla (own U19), Jihad Boutakhrit (FSV Frankfurt), Malek Fakhro (1. FC Bocholt), Can Coskun (Greifswalder FC), Moritz Montag (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Mert Göckan (Wuppertaler SV), Leon Müller (Kickers Offenbach), Steffen Meuer (Erzgebirge Aue), Patrick Sussek (BFC Dynamo), Jakob Bookjans (Eintracht Frankfurt II), Florian Egerer (VfB Lübeck), Franko Uzelac (Alemannia Aachen), Gerrit Wegkamp (Preußen Münster), Kevin Kunz (CZ Jena) and Jannik Zahmel (VfL Osnabrück), there are 16 new faces.