Borussia Dortmund has already canceled as a precaution.

Not the top game in itself, but the sale of tickets for the duel on Saturday with Bayern Munich (6.30 p.m. / in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky).

After all, like all Bundesliga clubs, BVB knows that they are facing restrictions.

But how exactly the audience question will be clarified in view of the acute corona situation - nobody knows yet.

Before the announcement of the Dortmund sales stop on Wednesday, a short message from FC Augsburg had already made the confusing situation clear.

He is planning for the upcoming home game against VfL Bochum with a stadium load of 25 percent, the FCA said.

As a result, the people of Fuggerstadt either want to move to Hesse or rebel against their state government.

After all, there should be ghost games in Bavaria in the future, while Hessen wants to release a quarter of the capacity.

In any case, these are the announcements made by the prime ministers before the new federal-state consultations on Thursday.

As of now, a patchwork quilt will come out with a view to professional sport.

But the past has shown that everything can turn out very differently.

It is possible that Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder will prevail with his call for nationwide encounters in camera. The CSU politician receives support from Baden-Württemberg and also from Saxony, where the ghost game regulation already applies. In Berlin, only 5,000 viewers should be allowed, Lower Saxony is considering a reduction in capacity, the 2G regulation still applies in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hamburg wants to join a “nationwide regulation”.

This is exactly what the President of the German Association of Cities is calling for. “Sports events with full ranks are no longer part of the time and should take place without an audience on site,” said Markus Lewe (CDU) to the editorial network Germany. The outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and her designated successor Olaf Scholz (SPD) discussed the coronavirus situation with the heads of government of the federal states on Tuesday. The calls for tightening the protective measures and restrictions had become louder in the past few days. The reason for this is the high number of infections and the spread of the new Omikron variant.

The table runner-up from Dortmund still hopes for spectators with a view to the game against the record champions and front runners from Munich.

Because, according to media reports, North Rhine-Westphalia is planning an upper limit of a third and a cap to a maximum of 25,000 viewers.

“I would have been happy to have as many spectators as possible.

The Bundesliga is not a pandemic driver - every health department confirms that, "said BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke at Sky:" But to be fair, we have to say that we have to pay tribute to the pandemic situation that we have.

We cannot disconnect from that.

Significantly fewer viewers - that takes away a bit of that special feeling.

But it is required correctly and factually. "