Overview
- Reul disclosed Wednesday that police logged more than 700,000 deployment hours on football-related incidents in the penultimate season, a strain he says harms routine policing and peaceful fans.
- From the 2026/2027 season the Deutscher Fußball-Bund will host a 'Zentrale Aufsichts- und Überprüfungsstelle Stadionverbote' charged with issuing and checking tougher, uniform stadium bans across Germany.
- Clubs have been ordered to act against pyrotechnics and the interior ministers will receive concrete prevention proposals by their autumn conference to reduce stadium disturbances.
- The NRW police union (GdP) praised the agreements and urged consistent issuance and enforcement of bans so repeat offenders can be kept out of matches and police are needed less often on weekends.
- Key implementation details remain unresolved and will require state police forces and the DFB to coordinate how bans are recorded, enforced across borders, and how outcomes will be measured for fans and officers.