Fireworks in front of the team hotel at night: No jerseys and scarves: Bayern fears Feyenoord hooligans

Fireworks in front of the team hotel at night
No jerseys and scarves: Bayern fears Feyenoord hooligans

January 22, 2025, 6:23 p.m

The hooligans of Feyenoord are notorious and feared. While the ultras disturb the Bayern professionals’ night’s sleep before the Champions League game in Rotterdam, Munich fans should better avoid wearing club colors. Feyenoord’s next opponent is already making preparations.

It’s only a small paragraph on the FC Bayern Munich website. A Dutch Bayern fan who comes from near Rotterdam advises the German supporters of the record champions before the Champions League game in the evening at Feyenoord Rotterdam (9 p.m./DAZN and in the live ticker on ntv.de) near De Kuip, the Dutch club’s legendary stadium, not to show the club colors too obviously. “In Holland it’s a little different than in Germany. Walking around in a Bayern jersey might not always be smart.”

FC Bayern definitely wants to win against Feyenoord in order to avoid the playoffs in the premier class. It is well known that Rotterdam is a dangerous place for football fans of opposing teams, especially if they come from Germany. And so some of the 2,400 Munich fans who got tickets for the game may actually be less relaxed on their pilgrimage to the stadium than usual.

Because the hooligans of Feyenoord are known for their willingness to use violence. The group Het Legioen (the Legion), for whom the number 12 at Feyenoord is reserved and is never awarded to a player, is notorious for atmospheric actions – and, through its hooligans, for attacks on opposing fans. Members of Het Legion are associated with far-right neo-Nazi organizations and other right-wing clubs across Europe. Since the 1970s, Feyenoord hooligans have repeatedly attracted attention with acts of violence, riots and fights; Union Berlin recently experienced this.

Feyenoord ultras disturb Bayern’s night’s sleep

On the evening before a Conference League game in Rotterdam in 2021, there was initially a physical attack on the Berlin club leadership in a restaurant in the city center. After some Union fans clashed with the police in the hours before the game, during which the Dutch officials were said to have acted extremely harshly against the supporters and even used dogs and batons, the Berliners had to remain in the visitors’ block until an hour after the final whistle. Feyenoord fans fired fireworks at her.

The Bayern fans will therefore go to the stadium with police protection from 6 p.m. The way to the away block even leads through a tunnel so that the Munich team cannot be attacked by hooligans. In an interview with “kicker”, Bayern’s sports director Max Eberl warned about the “hot-blooded fans who fight for their club”.

The ultra group Rotterdamse Jongeren Kern (RJK, Rotterdam Youth Core) is said to have found a way to influence the game before the game: As videos on X of the alleged RJK action show, they set off fireworks the previous night in front of the Bayern team hotel to deprive the Munich players of sleep.

Feyenoord’s next opponent on the final matchday in the Champions League next Wednesday is Lille Olympique Sporting Club. And now France has already taken precautions out of fear of the hooligans. Supporters of Rotterdam were banned from entering the northern French metropolis and some neighboring communities. The French Interior Ministry justified its ban by Feyenoord fans who regularly disrupted public order with acts of violence.