Despite clear upturn – still no top finish for BVB fans | OneFootball

After the end of the 2025/26 season across all German professional leagues, one thing is certain: BVB fans have once again missed out on a top spot in one particular category. That ranking is led, of all people, by the fans of FC Schalke 04. Here are all the details on this news.

At their own stadium, Signal Iduna Park, they had not hosted S04 fans in the last three years. That is because FC Schalke spent that entire period in Germany’s second tier. However, this has not stopped their supporters — not even the smaller average stadium sizes in the 2. Bundesliga — from holding on to top spot year after year among the fans of all professional clubs in Germany.

Once again this season, according to figures from the website die falsche Neun, the Royal Blues were followed by the most fans to their seventeen away matches of any club. With an average of 7,035, their Ruhr rivals are even the only club to break the 7,000 mark.

They are followed by the fans of Hamburger SV, who were able to travel to Bundesliga stadiums again for the first time in seven years. HSV were backed by an average of 6,653 fans on the road. Next come the supporters of VfB Stuttgart (5,606), FC Bayern Munich (5,494), 1. FC Köln (5,488), and Eintracht Frankfurt (5,459).

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HSV had the most away fans in the Bundesliga

Only in 7th place do we find the away supporters of Borussia Dortmund. This time, they travelled to away matches with an average of 5,353 fans. That puts them in the same position nationwide as in the previous 2024/25 season. However, there is a clear upward trend to report. While the figure was still 4,906 fans per away match the year before, it was 447 higher in the season just ended. BVB fans also ranked 7th nationwide last year, and despite this increase, that did not change in the most recent season.

In the new season, stadium capacity will rise slightly because of the difference between the grounds of the three relegated teams and those of the promoted clubs. However, that applies to the fans of all clubs near the top of the away support table. The big exception is the supporters of FC Schalke 04, who will now once again watch most of their away matches in larger arenas than was the case in the 2. Bundesliga.

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