How to get to the match:

Match tickets simultaneously serve as tickets for the public transport system in the VRR and NVV regions (equivalent to a Deutsche Bahn second-class ticket). A bus shuttle service to the stadium leaves every few minutes from the main railway stations in Mönchengladbach and Rheydt and will take you back to either of these two stations after the game. The cost of the shuttle bus service is also included in the price of the match ticket. A special train service also operates after the match. The stadium announcer will provide information about departure times on the video screens shortly before the end of the game.

Unreserved parking is available at car parks P4, P5 and P6 and costs €4. These can only be reached via the Mönchengladbach-Nordpark exit on the A 61. Coaches must park on car park P4 (€15). Those who would prefer to park free of charge and wish to avoid having to wait after the game are advised to go to the main railway stations and use the bus shuttle service provided by NVV.

Match tickets:

Please note: you will not be permitted to enter the BORUSSIA-PARK unless you are in possession of a valid match ticket. If you are already in the stadium and would like to pop outside for a moment, you should always check out your match ticket at the ticket scanners. In this way, you can re-enter the stadium afterwards. If you forget to check out your ticket, the computer will 'think' that you are already inside when you try to re-enter the stadium and will not let you back in. If the tickets were not bought directly from Borussia and do not function properly at the entry gate, it may be that the club already has a record of these tickets being traded on the black market and has therefore blocked them. Admission to the stadium will then be refused! For this reason, no one should attempt to buy tickets on the black market (whether outside the stadium or on eBay).

Visiting fans in the North Stand:

For security reasons, visiting supporters will be refused admission to the North Stand. This additional condition is now printed on the back of every ticket sold. Match stewards have been instructed to refuse admission through the North gate to visiting supporters. Furthermore, any visiting supporters who gain access to the North Stand unnoticedwill be escorted from this area once they have been identified and relocated, if there is still space, within the designated away section. If no space is available, they will be ejected from the BORUSSIA-PARK for security reasons.

Supporters clubs who would like to pass on tickets to friends from other clubs are advised not to do so and to tell their friends to order tickets from their own club. Otherwise, they should at least come incognito and behave in a way that does not draw attention to themselves. This also applies to transferable season tickets, of course!

The North Stand consists of Blocks 13 to 19 and 13a to 19a!

Fanwear and accessories:

In general, banners and flags with a pole length of up to 1.50m are permitted. Larger flags require a permit. The fan project can provide a storage room for outsized flags. If you would like to store your flags at the stadium, please contact the FPMG info stand. Drums (one drumhead, transparent) may also be used in the North Bank. Drums don't make sense, however, unless you can 'play' them properly. The same applies to other musical instruments such as trumpets, horns and the like. Megaphones are unnecessary in the North Stand. The 'chant leader' in Block 16 uses a microphone.

Storage facilities:

Storage rooms are available at all main entrances for fans to place objects they are not permitted to take into the ground (e.g. full rucksacks, bulky objects, drinks cans, glass bottles, dangerous missiles and possibly key rings). The police will be called immediately if weapons are discovered! These objects can be collected again from the storage rooms after the game. It is not like putting things in a locker there, however, and no liability is assumed for the items stored. Therefore, it is best to leave everything at home or in the car/coach. Motorcycle helmets cannot be deposited at the storage facilities, so please lock them under the seat of your motorcycle.

Beverages:

Only beverages in Tetra-Pak cartons may be brought into the stadium. No bottles, plastic containers or cans are permitted.

Digital cameras:

Digital cameras may be taken into the stadium with the exception of professional video and photographic equipment.

Lost property:

Anyone who loses their keys, mobile phone, etc., can register the loss after the game at the police station behind the North Stand. Any lost property found should also be handed in there, please. Uncollected property will be handed over to the match stewards after the game.

Had one drink too many?:

Fans who have been drinking will not be admitted to the stadium if their blood alcohol level is 160 mg per 100 ml of blood (or above). Alcohol checks can be carried out at the entrances and people who draw attention to themselves (regardless of the amount of alcohol in their bloodstream) will immediately be barred from entering the stadium by the stewards and their match ticket will become invalid!

"Freedom for the North Stand?" Yes! But only with a code of conduct!

Though we have been playing at the BORUSSIA-PARK since the 2004/2005 season, it will still be a little while before Borussia's new home becomes a seething cauldron of emotions in the old tradition. This holds true for all areas, but most of all, of course, for the North Stand. For it is here that the heart of the new stadium beats!

Apart from the fact that the capacity of the 'singing area' is three times larger than at the old Bökelberg ground (22,500 vs. 8,500), it offers other new features in the standing area of Block 13 to 18 that might appear quite commonplace at first.

However, they are anything but commonplace: Even before the construction phase was completed, the Stadium Working Group, made up of representatives of the club, the Borussia Fan Project and the supporters club, had completely redrafted the basic framework and general conditions that were to apply to the new North Stand and fought hard for the fans' interests. Supporters are therefore no longer caged in, as the fences between the blocks in the standing area have been lowered to a height of 1.20m. In addition, freedom to move between the blocks is now only slightly restricted. No stewards are posted at the top and bottom of the stairways to keep them clear, the fence at the front is just 1m high and the net required by the German Football Association (DFB) hangs only in front of the centre block (No.16)! All this did not simply come about through some "law of nature". It happened because the supporters' representatives vigorously advocated these measures and spoke out loudly on behalf of all fans! This new approach requires the supporters in the North Stand to exercise self-discipline.

This means that supporters should move from one block to another as little as possible and that the aisles should be kept clear without anyone having to intervene.
What it doesn't mean is that those people who have not obtained tickets for the centre blocks (15, 16 and 17) are now free to gain access to them by taking a 'detour' over the fence. It is in no one's interest for Block 16 to become so overcrowded that the supporters there cannot see the game and (most importantly of all) are in danger of being crushed or suffocated, while Blocks 13 and 18 remain virtually empty. And it most certainly doesn't mean that fans now have a licence to sit permanently atop the fences or throw cigarette lighters, chapsticks, etc., onto the pitch!

"Freedom for the North Stand" does not mean "anarchy in the block!"

So these are the rules:

• Everyone stays in the block for which they have bought a ticket!


• Everyone does their level best to keep the aisles clear!


• Everyone moves along in their block and must be prepared to move to the top of the block, as there is usually lots of space there.


• Everyone keeps an eye out for supporters throwing objects and makes it clear to them in no uncertain terms that such behaviour is in no one's interest (least of all Borussia's) and that it will not be tolerated in any circumstances.


• Everyone concentrates on why they are standing in the North Stand in the first place, i.e., to support their own team as loudly as they can rather than abusing (or worse still throwing objects at) the opposition.

If this doesn't work, Borussia will be forced to restore order by positioning stewards in the aisles. First, to ensure they are kept clear and second to ensure that no unchecked 'crossing over' takes place. Should this prove ineffective, the club may be forced to raise the fences to the originally planned height of 2.20m. But surely nobody wants this to happen, do they?


So, to sum things up: yes to freedom for the North Bank. But only with a code of conduct !


With this in mind, we hope you have a great day at the match in and around the BORUSSIA PARK.

Your fan representatives,

Thomas 'TJ' Jaspers
and
Thomas 'Tower' Weinmann