I have lived in south Germany on 4 separate occasions, but most of that time spent in the Munich area.Thank you! They are impressive numbers.
My daughter is working near Dusseldorf, and she's been to a few different grounds this season. She says it's an incredible match day experience before, during, after, and incredibly good value. Not just the match ticket but the high quality food & drink available. It's an all day event, more like cricket or horse racing.
Compared to the UK, it's a different sport almost, and she says every game has a better atmosphere as anything she's seen in Sheffield or indeed Sunderland (she went to the 2-1 win the season before last!).
During that time I went to quite a few games in Bundesliga 1 & 2.
The atmosphere in general was a huge improvement on the English league games. In many of the games the chanting etc is constant throughout the whole 90 minutes.
I took the wife to a few Bayern home games and she loved it, she spent more time watching the crowd than the game.
