Hannover 96 v Schalke 04: Full stadium thanks to travelling Schalke fans

Author: Soccer-ticket.com | Published on 29. September 2024

FC Schalke 04 will visit the Heinz-von-Heiden-Arena to face Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga 2 on Saturday, 19 October 2024. The match between Hannover 96 and the struggling FC Schalke 04 will kick off at 1:00 pm in front of a sold-out crowd. One reason that all tickets for the game have been sold is also and above all due to the Schalke fans who are keen to travel.

Schalke 04: Great desire to travel with the miners

The FC Schalke 04 team has not been performing at its best for some time now, which has led to unrest within the team and the recent sacking of the coach. Nevertheless, the S04 team can rely on its loyal fans both at home and away matches. The fans seem to particularly enjoy the away trips to Hanover.

Around 10,000 fans are expected to make the journey from Gelsenkirchen to Hanover to support FC Schalke 04 at the match on 19 October 2024. In the previous season, more than 10,000 Schalke fans travelled to Lower Saxony to support the team and defied all negative sporting circumstances.

The away games in particular have rarely ended well for Schalke. If you look at the last 34 away games (1st and 2nd Bundesliga), FC Schalke 04 has a disastrous goal difference of 37:81. It is therefore all the more astonishing that the S04 fans’ desire to travel has not diminished.

Away match at Hannover 96: Popular destination for visiting fans

A sold-out arena has become a rarity in Hanover since the club joined the German lower division. The Heinz-von-Heiden-Arena has a capacity of 49,000, which is rarely full at Hannover 96’s home matches.

The number of tickets sold by season ticket holders, members’ sales and free sales is not enough to fill the stadium. To sell out the arena, the “96ers” need the help of the visiting fans – FC Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV have managed this in the recent past.

Hannover 96 tickets: Do members and season ticket holders have a right of first refusal?

Yes, tickets for season ticket holders and club members go on sale exclusively before the general public. For the home match against FC Schalke 04 scheduled for 19 October 2024, ticket sales for members and season ticket holders of Hannover 96 started on 16 September 2024 and thus 2 days before the free sale. Members had the opportunity to secure 2 tickets each.

In order for Hannover 96 season ticket holders and club members to secure the right of first refusal, they had to register with their customer account in the club’s internal online ticket shop. Once they had registered with their access data, they were able to book the tickets.

Tickets for the home match against Schalke 04: free sale ends after a few hours

The free sale started on Wednesday, 18 September at 10:00 a.m. and offered all fans access to tickets for the home match against FC Schalke 04. A few hours after the opening, the free sale was closed again as all tickets were sold out.

Schalke 04 fans not only secured the tickets that were available to them anyway, but also thousands of tickets around the guest fan block. Hannover 96 club officials can therefore announce the second sold-out home game of the season. Anyone still interested in tickets can try their luck on the Hannover 96 secondary ticket market. Alternatively, you can also look for tickets on our platform.

Hannover 96: A sell-out crowd is a good omen

In the first game in front of a full house against Hamburger SV, the Hannover team won 1:0. From the point of view of the fans of Hannover 96, such a result can be repeated. The signs are good for this game against Schalke, who are weak away from home. Should Hannover 96 win the game, the results of the two sold-out games would be an incentive for the fans to fill the stadium even more often.