Best Atmospheres You've Seen Abroad

[Worlds_Most_Successful_Team 70]

Curious what other bears experiences abroad have been like seeing teams other than the famous. 

Ended up in a city near Frankfurt so ended up there in my first foreign non-gers abroad game. Aye nay doubt itd be them, seethed a little bit. 

Out in the sticks and on the way up random roadside bars with very reasonable (UK pub standard prices but better bevs). Getting into the ground was a bit of a piss take and took ages, few entrances for all stands and proper searches. Atmosphere awesome, smoking in a stadium is a novelty, pints of better than Scottish pub prices and straight to your seat. Cheap and good food and booze. Passionate crowd, none of whom seemed to leave till 20mins after enjoying the party. Even tho they'd only pumped Helsinki. Trains after a nightmare but nothing worse than the subway. 

Only downside was seeing all the scarfs and tops from the final. Was seething but own fault for ending up there, still worth it. 

Overall impressed, Germany looks after it's fans in a way top 5 leagues and the UK don't come close to matching. 

 

Looking to get to more foreign grounds, Gers games or no, any experiences from fellow gers? 

[Ukrainian 51]

I would say that Sweden international team fans are the best I’ve ever seen if we are talking about atmosphere around the games or at the grounds in general. 
Or Saskatchewan Roughriders fans if we are talking just about atmosphere around the grounds. 

[.Williamson. 82,275]

Even the name Frankfurt turns me 

[Worlds_Most_Successful_Team 70]

2 hours ago, Ukrainian said:

I would say that Sweden international team fans are the best I’ve ever seen if we are talking about atmosphere around the games or at the grounds in general. 
Or Saskatchewan Roughriders fans if we are talking just about atmosphere around the grounds. 

The scandis look a good shout. Probably them or Poland next for me. Never heard of the others but will give them a look. 

 

 

[Worlds_Most_Successful_Team 70]

2 hours ago, .Williamson. said:

Even the name Frankfurt turns me 

Same but good atmosphere and sound fans. Different ofcourse if it was taig fans. 

[RFC55 108,974]

4 hours ago, .Williamson. said:

Even the name Frankfurt turns me 

Ran about taking liberties in Sevilla picking off stragglers, utter cunts.

but sound apparently

[the sliver fox 1,669]

Only been to one march abroad, a Werder Bremen league game back in the mid 90's while I was on an exchange trip in high school. Pre match atmosphere was brilliant, the stands were packed, crowd was great, then about 10 mins into the game I collapsed and came round with a shit load of really concerned,top notch Germans making sure I was ok. Still to this day I don't know what happened, or what the score was, but from what I remember the atmosphere was good.

[Almacger 1,442]

28th June 1992 - Flamengo v Vasco Da Gama, Maracana, Rio. My uncle worked in the oil industry and had a few bob at the time, asked if I wanted tae go tae Brazil - aye ok 😂 Was just 17 years old and was shitting myself in the stadium as they were fucking mental fans with total chaos on and off the park.  Second half of the match a fan went up to the Flamengo keeper to shake hands with him and the keeper booted fuck out of him   Cops then dragged the fan away and let their Rottweilers munch on him for a few seconds  Attendance was just over 101000 - that was the official attendance but guys round me reckoned it was much higher than that. Never experienced anything like that and never will again. Went to the replay the following week after a draw, only 90000 turned up for it but was still great. A few weeks later after returning to the UK, there was an accident at the stadium injuring 60 people. Capacity started to be reduced from that point on.  My first ever game abroad was Sparta Prague in 1991 - country was Czechoslovakia back then. The whole city was a poor shithole back then and the stadium was awful. Went on supporters bus on my own, never knew anyone - 16 years old with backpack and a carry oot - loved it. All those years later I’ll be back at Ibrox tonight to watch us against that same club.

[CXB 4,327]

Went to Marseille v Lyon a few  years ago in the Velodrome, crazy atmosphere. thank fuck it was a draw 1-1  or they would be killing each other.

[berkshirebear 2,771]

Slavia v Sparta about 20 years ago, was mental, they set fire to the stadium, fire brigade tried to put it out, and the fans attacked them, before the riot police went storming in! Was fun!!

[JamieD 18,949]

Belgrade derby at Partizan, in the Red Star end. 

It was the 150th derby, so the fans were in celebratory rather than murderous mood, although it was still ridiculously tense. Insane pyros which stopped the game several times. A wrongly disallowed goal for Partizan, a wrongly given - and scored - penalty for Red Star. At just about the moment when I thought it might boil over in the stands, the Partizan ultras set fire to their own stand and unfurled a banner saying something like "75 years of football, nationalism, war, glory" and the Red Star fans all applauded.

Nutters.

 

[dave7867 75]

dont know if you count it as abroad was at man city v young boys on tuesday , city fans zero young boys fans outstanding and were realistic about the game too.

i would rank it in top 5 of away fans ive seen well organised

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,790]

Rapid Vienna probably

Dont mind much about Belgrade and Feyenoord was underwhelming(from their end anyway) out of the other ones I've been to where you'd expect a good atmosphere

[Unionblue 3,575]

The atmosphere among the bears at the East side of the piggery back in the 70's was fucking sensational, if you didn't get bottled or pished on, the full song book was belted out.

[G.E.C. 18,792]

Only been to a foreign ground once when we played Stuttgart in 2007.

Was a dead rubber to them but still sold out the ground and was an electric atmosphere. Too bad they sang YNWA though the cunts.

[MurrayWilson 3,393]

AEK athens when we played them. The ground only held 30,000 but what a racket.

[Ukrainian 51]

On 08/11/2023 at 22:39, Worlds_Most_Successful_Team said:

The scandis look a good shout. Probably them or Poland next for me. Never heard of the others but will give them a look. 

 

 

Few Roughriders fans pics

 

[demise 3,517]

Feyenoord vs Porto a couple of years back in Europa League was great. Porto missed several sitters, hit the bar twice and at the end lost 2-0 for the joy of 50 000 Feyenoord fans. What a night. 

When it comes to crazy behaviour, Levski Sofia vs Werder Bremen 2006 in the CL was it by a country mile. Before the game Levski hooligans caught some 20-30 Werder fans, kicked the hell out of them and stole their flags.  Then they were fighting with police over their own flags that police confiscated. Then the Levski young goalkeeper scored an own goal and the stadium errupted in anger(he was an arrogant prick back then and nobody likes him to this day). People around me started shouting and swearing at the keeper, some guy was stupid enough to tell everyone to shut the fuck up. In the next second he received a flying kick in the head and got dropped several rows below and he moved away from the stand. There were so many drunk/high fans it was insane. One guy started shouting at me because he saw me drinking water and not singing  At some point i turned back and saw home fans fighting each other in some 10-15 separate locations in the stand. Crazy stuff. 

[RFC55 108,974]

Rangers at Porto a few year back 

[MisterC 12,275]

I went to see IF vs HB I think in the Faroe Islands when I was up seeing @johanhentze a few years back. Great atmosphere even though was only about 2000 there

[don logan 8,068]

10 minutes ago, MisterC said:

I went to see IF vs HB I think in the Faroe Islands when I was up seeing @johanhentze a few years back. Great atmosphere even though was only about 2000 there

Kind of akin to Pollok v Petershill?

[MisterC 12,275]

3 minutes ago, don logan said:

Kind of akin to Pollok v Petershill?

Aye, or Huntly v Keith in the Highland league 

[McEwan's Lager 30,534]

Probably Red Star Belgrade or Marseille fans. Both of them absolute nutters.

 

[scottyscott1963 18,329]

Was with Man City fans at old trafford in April 74.
Denis Law scored the winner against the kafflics and all hell broke loose.
The City fans gave their version of TBB that day,and there were smoke bombs and invasions during the match.
Wasn't really intimidating...just kinda....oh f*ck,we're going to get battered....city fans had the c*nts on toast.
Worked in a boozer In Moss Side whose family and customers were mental City fans.
It was quite an experience.