Bicycles
In any respect residence video games, there can be 1,000 free-of-charge bicycle parking areas obtainable at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK. Personal e-scooters will also be parked there. The ADFC bicycle guards begin monitoring 105 minutes earlier than kick-off and end 60 minutes after the ultimate whistle. The primary parking space is positioned on the north-west facet of the stadium within the Strobelallee/Rabenloh nook reverse the Fan World. The second parking space is located within the north-east nook reverse the Helmut-Körnig-Halle and subsequent to the Rosenterrassen. Parking space no. 3 is positioned within the south-east at Bolmker Weg/Schwimmweg nook close to the swimming pool.
Champions League
Like final yr, all 36 individuals will play in a single league and contest 4 residence video games and 4 away matches every towards eight totally different opponents. The draw will happen on 28 August. The groups ranked first to eighth will qualify immediately for the spherical of 16, whereas the golf equipment ranked ninth to twenty fourth will compete for the remaining eight spots within the spherical of 16.
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DFB-Pokal
The pairings for the second spherical can be drawn on Sunday 31 August. The second spherical can be held on 28 and 29 October. The following spherical will then be the final 16 on 2/3 December. The quarter-final matches can be unfold throughout 4 dates (3/4/10/11 February), with the semi-finals to happen on 21 and 22 April 2026. The ultimate can be in Berlin on 23 Could 2026.
Digital ticket
All match tickets are additionally obtainable in digital type. Season ticket holders had been in a position to decide on between the same old plastic card or a digital subscription. Earlier than every residence sport, the person match ticket is added to your cell phone as a ‘cell ticket’ or might be downloaded as a PDF. Because of this the (digital) ticket might be forwarded to 3rd events at any time with out having at hand over the season ticket. It’s nonetheless potential for digital season ticket holders to make use of the Secondary Ticket Market.
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English weeks
The Bundesliga schedule as soon as once more consists of just one midweek matchday – instantly after the winter break. What’s new is that these matches are actually unfold over three days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) as an alternative of two like they was once.
Fixtures
The primary 5 matchdays have been exactly scheduled. The following batch of fixtures is ready to be introduced within the first week of September.
Kick-off occasions
A brand new TV rights interval begins this season, however the kick-off occasions will all stay the identical: one sport on a Friday night (20:30), often 5 on a Saturday afternoon (15:30), the highest match on a Saturday at 18:30, one sport on a Sunday at 15:30, one sport on a Sunday at 17:30, plus a complete of 10 video games all through the season at 19:30 on Sunday evenings to make sure that all of the European individuals have at the very least two days to get well.
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Particular person tickets
Internationals
As per typical, home soccer will pause on 4 events: on the primary weekend in September, the second weekend in October, the third weekend in November and the final weekend in March.
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Interventions
If gamers who should not allowed to be on the pitch (substitutes warming up, for instance) contact the ball with none malicious intent earlier than it goes out of play, the punishment will solely be an oblique free kick to any extent further. Beforehand, referees needed to award a penalty kick when such conditions occurred contained in the penalty space if a substitute from the defending group stopped the ball (unintentionally!) simply earlier than it went out of play.
Native public transport
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Offsides
The semi-automatic offside expertise is meant to facilitate the work of the VAR. In so-called “factual offside conditions”, a time discount of 30% is predicted – together with an total enhance in acceptance and readability in circumstances of VAR intervention.
Parking
Please swap off your SatNavs and comply with the instructions of the parking steering system, as numerous entry roads are closed on matchdays. The automobile parks immediately at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK are solely obtainable to holders of pre-issued parking permits. Please observe: the exits from automobile parks A8, B Luftbad, B Süd and B West can be closed from across the eightieth minute of the match till round 40 minutes after the ultimate whistle to make sure that spectators can go away the stadium on foot. There are over 10,000 paid parking areas within the surrounding space which can be obtainable to all guests. Parking tickets have to be bought upfront on-line.
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Park & Trip
The next parking areas can be found for those who want to make the journey with a mixture of automobile and public transport:
within the north on the Fredenbaum, Hafen and Schulte-Rödding stops
within the west on the Lütgendortmund and Germania stops
within the south on the Clarenberg, Hacheney and Sölde stops
within the east on the Knappschaftskrankenhaus cease
The uni shuttle runs between the college and the Theodor-Fliedner-Heim cease. Parking is obtainable there and the bus will take you in your onward journey to the stadium. The automobile park is positioned on Otto-Hahn-Straße (A45 exit Eichlinghofen or B1 exit Barop). The parking payment on Otto-Hahn-Straße is €2.
Penalties
If the taker unintentionally touches the ball twice when capturing – for instance, by kicking it towards his personal standing leg – and scores a aim, the penalty will not be thought-about to have been missed and can as an alternative be retaken. If the ball doesn’t go within the aim after the double contact, an oblique free-kick can be awarded to the opposing group, as was beforehand the case.
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Pitch
Through the summer time break, the enjoying floor at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK was utterly relaid. To this finish, a particular technical process was carried out: three so-called ‘tufting machines’ processed the floor strip by strip, embroidering artificial synthetic turf fibres into the prevailing pure turf.
Season tickets
All 55,000 obtainable season tickets had been bought previous to the beginning of the season. Like final yr, round 300 individuals on the ready listing had been allotted a daily spot on the floor.
Secondary Market
Purchased a ticket however then cannot go? Borussia Dortmund supply patrons of particular person match tickets and season ticket holders a quite simple method to legally resell their tickets by itemizing them on the Secondary Ticket Market. These tickets are put up on the market on the buy value of the ticket within the BVB Ticket Store. The season ticket is then electronically blocked for the match in query. The vendor receives a refund of the ticket value from BVB, minus a processing payment.
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Sportschau
In future, ARD’s Sportschau programme can be broadcast on Friday evenings from 23:10 and can present highlights from the Bundesliga and a couple of. Bundesliga. Till now, solely second-tier protection was obtainable on Fridays by way of the special-interest channel One.
Tickets for younger members
Since 2023, there was an advance ticket sale completely for younger BVB members. For membership members aged 14 to 17, there’s a separate ticket contingent for all BVB residence video games that’s allotted individually from the conventional member sale. This will increase the probabilities of younger members getting tickets. All members aged between 14 and 17 can apply for as much as two tickets, at the very least one in all which have to be a reduced youth ticket. All eligible members can be knowledgeable in good time in regards to the begin of every advance sale by way of the publication.
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Time wastingGoalkeepers are allowed to the touch the ball with their palms or arms for eight seconds. The referee should point out the final 5 seconds with a countdown utilizing their hand in order that it’s seen to everybody. If the goalkeeper remains to be holding the ball with out being prevented from enjoying it, a corner-kick is awarded to the opposing group.
Switch window
Gamers can transfer golf equipment up till 1 September 2025 (20:00). The rationale for that is that the ultimate qualifying matches for the European membership competitions will solely be accomplished shortly earlier than then. After that, solely gamers with no membership might be signed in Germany up till the winter break.
TV rights
The Bundesliga simulcast for the 15:30 matches on Saturday afternoons is shifting from Sky to DAZN. In return, Sky will now present the Friday matches once more, in addition to all particular person matches on Saturday, together with the highest match at 18:30. Sunday video games stay with DAZN.
Wheelchair customers
Since final season, further seats have been obtainable within the wheelchair areas in order that wheelchair customers are capable of deliver a good friend – along with an accompanying particular person – with them to the stadium. Wheelchair customers can take part within the ticket lottery by way of the web instrument of their BVB account. The ticket prices €15.
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Winter break
There can be a break of slightly below three weeks from 22 December 2025 to eight January 2026. After that, the motion will resume with Matchday 16. The winter champion can be topped on 15 January.