The energy crisis also affects the Bundesliga with floodlit games. One round “eats” more than one household in a year. Where might you save? Gaming board member David Reisenauer explains.
Austria recently got to know what it looks like in a football stadium when the lights have gone out at night at the Nations League game in Vienna once morest Denmark. The power failure was repaired late, Austria lost and fell into a hole in the grass at the final whistle. Was that already a foretaste of this autumn? Because in the energy crisis, which is growing rapidly because of the Ukraine war, a wall of uncertainty is building up: what will happen to sport? Especially football, when electricity is scarce, rationed or floodlights have to be canceled due to a lack of energy?
Ever since the breakdown in the Happel Stadium, it has been known that candlelit evening games are unlikely to succeed. Only, were lessons learned from this – above all: is the Bundesliga prepared for it?
