Hwang Hee-chan (24 years old, RB Leipzig), a Korean national football striker who has moved from Austria to Germany, will be able to play his Bundesliga debut in front of 8,500 home fans.
The Leipzig team said on the club's website on the 1st (hereafter local time), "The Leipzig City Health Authority grants permission from the health authorities of the Leipzig City to allow up to 8,500 spectators to enter the first home game of the Bundesliga 2020-2021 with FSV Mainz 05 on the 20th. I got it."
Foreign media, including Reuters, reported that Leipzig was the first of the German professional football 1st division teams to play a game in a related field due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
Leipzig Mayor Burghard Jung said, "We hope that we will be able to get back to normal with the approval of the match this time."
Partially spectators are allowed to enter the Red Bull Arena, the home of Leipzig with a seating capacity of 42,000, but strict quarantine rules must be followed.
All spectators are required to wear masks and sit at a distance.
Expedition cheering seats and standing seats are not operated.
Tickets will not be sold separately, but will be distributed by lottery to seasonal ticket holders residing in Leipzig's state of Saxony.
Hee-chan Hwang, who was active in Salzburg, Austria until the 2019-2020 season, successfully entered the'Big League' after signing a five-year contract with Leipzig in July for a transfer fee of 15 million euros (estimated).
Leipzig is scheduled to open a new season in the Bundesliga with Nuremberg on the 12th and a home game against Mainz on the 20th after an away game in the first round of the German Football Association (DFB) Fokal.
(Photo = RB Leipzig website capture, Yonhap News)