Borussia Dortmund fans to boycott Monday match vs. Augsburg

Borussia Dortmund supporters have announced a boycott of their Monday night
home match against Augsburg in late February.
Dortmund, who are involved in Europa League after their failure to qualify from the
Champions League group stages, are set to meet Augsburg on Monday, Feb. 26,
with the game kicking off at 8.30 p.m. local time.
But the Sudtribune Dortmund alliance, a collective of Ultra groups and fan clubs,
announced they would not be attending a match on a Monday.
"We will no longer play along to the absurd development of kick-off times," a
statement read. "We've reached a point where we've ultimately gone beyond
what's acceptable.
"Several groups and fan clubs who've been at every BVB home match at the
Westfalenstadion will not attend the Monday night game. This decision is in no
way directed against the team. We just can't and don't want to accept Bundesliga
matches on a Monday."
In late June 2016, the Bundesliga confirmed that five of the league's 306 matches
would be played on a Monday night from the 2017-2018 season on, initially
planned to allow for a long break for the German Europa League starters.
With no match played on a Monday night during the first half of the Bundesliga
season, all five matches are set to go ahead during the run-in until May. Three of
them have been already been scheduled.
However, the Sudtribune Dortmund alliance said the introduction of those games
were "another big step towards the sell-out of football," adding that "clubs,
associations and TV stations" acted without consideration for the fans.
"BVB are sadly not the exception from the rule," they said, adding that some fans
would not be able to travel on a Monday night. "Once again, the fans willing to
support their club in the stadium are the losers."
With almost 100 percent of the tickets for the Yellow Wall, Dortmund's giant
standing terrace with a 25,000 capacity, sold as season tickets, a successful
boycott could produce some unwanted PR for those in charge of German football.
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