Ticket frenzy reaches new heights: HSV steps up with these measures! | OneFootball

Getting tickets for HSV home games will be harder than ever in the summer of 2025. The club plans to implement several measures to manage the rush in a targeted manner.

At Hamburger SV, demand for tickets has literally exploded in recent months. Within just seven minutes, the 5,200 tickets for the away game at the season opener in Mönchengladbach were sold out, and the home derby against FC St. Pauli was sold out after 20 minutes. As a non-member, you had no chance of getting a ticket in either case.

But even being an HSV member (there are now more than 125,000) no longer guarantees access to the stadium. According to a Bild investigation, for home games only around 20,000 tickets actually go on sale to members. The rest go to season ticket holders (21,500), VIPs (about 4,000), away fans (5,700), and the more than 1,000 official fan clubs, which receive their own quota in advance.

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Soon 60,000 fans at HSV home games?

HSV welcomes the great interest, but feels compelled to take measures to make ticket distribution fairer. For the first time, a system to verify email addresses was used during the derby ticket sale to prevent multiple bookings. Anyone who violates the rules and resells tickets illegally ends up on an internal club blacklist.

Additionally, starting from the 2025/2026 season: only those who are HSV members themselves will be allowed to obtain tickets through a fan club. The digital queue will continue to be managed randomly to ensure no one is disadvantaged.

To be able to serve even more fans in the long term given the immense demand, an expansion of the Volksparkstadion to 60,000 seats is even being considered. However, HSV remains realistic: if the corresponding results fail to materialize in the first Bundesliga season in seven years, attendance figures could drop. Therefore, ticket prices will be flexibly adjusted depending on the sporting situation.

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