Pundits, politicians and police chiefs have all been sticking their oar into the debate over how to deal with the unholy alliance of drunken thugs and far-right politics which came to a head in Cologne on Sunday.
North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister wants to ban future violent far-right and hooligan demonstrations, following chaotic scenes in Cologne on Sunday in which 44 police officers were injured.
Police deployed water cannon and tear gas against an anti-Salafist demonstration by thousands of hooligans and far-right supporters in central Cologne when it descended into violence on Sunday.
Resentful at having to spend huge sums and thousands of man hours controlling rowdy soccer fans, police authorities are pushing plans to entirely withdraw officers from some duties.
Police stepped in to protect players at a Dresden club on Sunday - after their fans told them to leave town because a defeat spelled relegation from the country's second soccer division.
Bundesliga side Hannover 96 successfully took two of its supporters to court on Friday to reclaim €8,500 of UEFA fines handed to the club due to the fans' misbehaviour.
Two police helicopters collided near Berlin's Olympic stadium on Thursday morning during riot training drills against football hooligans. Initial reports suggest one person has died and four are seriously injured.
Rioting football hooligans have again dragged violence in Germany's Bundesliga back into the spotlight after three separate incidents in the country's top two leagues over the weekend.
Second division Dynamo Dresden have been banned from next season's German Cup as punishment after their fans rioted at Hannover 96 in October, a year on from similar trouble at Borussia Dortmund's ground.
German football hooligans could be banned from matches for up to 10 years, although a crackdown on violence and sports security stopped short of making all stadiums in the country all-seaters.
Germany’s interior minister provoked fury by calling on Wednesday for notorious football hooligans to be forced to wear electronic ankle tags so police can keep track of them and stop them going to matches.
Football violence is increasing in Germany, with reports of trouble at games now almost every week. At the same time, the Bundesliga is booming. <b>The Local</b> asked Jacob Sweetman of <b>No Dice</b> magazine to square the circle.
German football fans determined to get around a ban dressed in their opponents’ team colours to sneak into a match on Friday – and then got involved in a mass brawl.
Violence at football matches in Germany’s top leagues has reached record highs, leaving police struggling to control it, the Interior Ministry said this week.
Last week’s fan violence at a Cup fixture between Borussia Dortmund and Dynamo Dresden is set to have more consequences. The German Football Association (DFB) is now threatening to exclude Dresden from the competition.
German referees are protesting what they say is an increase in violence and threats directed against them at lower division football matches. The situation has deteriorated to the point that some officials are boycotting specific teams.
Stadium security is extremely lacking in Germany’s lower football divisions, according to the unions representing police and security personnel, which believes the atmosphere is growing increasingly toxic at matches.
Hesse’s interior minister wants to crack down on drunken hooligans who disrupt sporting events. But his prescription is likely to rankle beer-loving Germans: A total alcohol ban in football stadiums and public transportation taking fans there.
A fight broke out at a Frankfurt train station before Saturday's Bundesliga football match between Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt. The home fans threw fireworks at a train filled with Kaiserslautern supporters.
German football club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) has started a unique new pilot project to “rehabilitate” young hooligans by offering them the chance to do community service and regain their right to enter the stadium as fans.
Germany's Constitutional Court is set to consider the complaint of a football fan who was banned from all stadiums in the country on the basis of suspicion that he was likely to be violent.
A group of up to 30 masked people at a station near Braunschweig attacked a regional train full of football fans with bats, hammers and stones over the weekend, police reported on Monday.
After the latest football violence left 29 police slightly injured in Rostock, the police union on Wednesday demanded Germany’s leagues pay up to €50 million a season to combat hooliganism.
In order to stem a dramatic increase in hooliganism in Germany, the country's national police union (GdP) on Thursday appealed to a federal court to allow violent football fans to be banned from stadiums even if they don't have a criminal conviction.
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble wants to do everything in the government’s power to keep hooligans from travelling to the European Championships starting this weekend.
