Red Devils fans buy tie: stadium in Austria completely sold out thanks to 2,000 Belgian supporters

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The Red Devils will be able to count on the support of at least 2,000 Belgian supporters during the European Championship qualifying match in Vienna against Austria on Friday. This resulted in massive response to a call that the Football Association had launched together with fan club 1895 as part of the #WirSchaffenDas campaign.

The previous match of the Red Devils in Austria, in March 2011, was the first after the establishment of the Official Belgian Fan Club 1895. Then 2,000 Belgian supporters celebrated after a 0-2 victory by the Belgians. At the end of July, the football association launched a call to at least equal this number during the upcoming move to Austria. That worked. “The Devils can count on a fan legion of more than 2,000 men (and women),” the Belgian Football Association said.

This means that Austria-Belgium is completely sold out. Because in addition to the 2,000 Belgian fans, 46,000 Austrian fans will also be present. Within three to four hours, all tickets for the Ernst Happel Stadium were gone. That doesn’t happen often, because the national stadium is often only half full.

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It is also anything but a cozy football temple. It is old and there is an athletics track around the field. The supporters are quite far from the field. The stadium is only used for the national team and concerts, but not for a first division team.

Austria would actually prefer to play in Rapid Wien’s stadium, which is much more modern, but that club does not allow that. Renovating the Ernst Happel Stadium is difficult, because the roof is protected architecture.

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