Fresh fan protests erupted on Sunday against a German Football League (DFL) plan to recruit an external investor - including a toy plane disrupting a Bundesliga game - as cracks in a previous agreement on the deal began to widen. What appeared to be chocolate coins rained down onto the pitch early in Freiburg's 3-3 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt, before the remote-controlled toy plane and more hurled sweets led the players to leave the pitch for several minutes in the second half. On Saturday, re
Sixth-placed Eintracht Frankfurt were pegged back three times to be held 3-3 at European rivals Freiburg on Sunday, hitting their hopes of a late bid for the Bundesliga top four. Like many games this weekend, the match was delayed at the start of the second half due to fan protests against the German league's plan to install an external investor. On Saturday, remote controlled cars carrying smoke bombs entered the pitch at the second-tier game between Hansa Rostock and SV Hamburg. This time a re
Wolfsburg forward Lukas Nmecha could make his Bundesliga comeback after 15 months on the sidelines in Saturday's match against Borussia Dortmund, coach Niko Kavac has said. Nmecha, 25, suffered a knee injury in Wolfsburg's last home game against Dortmund in November 2022 and has not played in the league since then. The German international also missed the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. He suffered two setbacks during the long comeback process and underwent surgery after featuring in a German Cup match
The German Football Association (DFB) sees its referees in an exceptional situation owing to fan protests which have interrupted Bundesliga and second division games over the past weeks. "At the moment, the referees . are particularly challenged not only as match officials, but also as conflict managers and mediators," a DFB spokesman told dpa. "It is an unfamiliar, difficult and also stressful situation for them, for which they are not responsible, but in which they have to shoulder a lot of
Forward Maximilian Philipp is permanently joining Freiburg from Bundesliga rivals Wolfsburg after an initial loan deal, according to dpa sources. Kicker sports magazine also reported that a full transfer clause in the initial season-long loan deal from summer was triggered because Philipp has played a certain amount of matches for Freiburg. There was immediate confirmation from the clubs. Philipp, 29, has played 13 games for Freiburg in the Bundesliga and Europa League this term, scoring two goa