2123 people saw Viktoria Cologne’s first home game this season-one 1-0 victory against Wehen Wiesbaden. When the club hit Dynamo Dresden 2-1 from the ideal side of the Rhine, there were at the very least 3412 fans in the Höhenberg sports park. The backdrop will certainly be greater than 10 times as huge following Wednesday night: In the first round of the DFB Cup, Viktoria will satisfy the document champs FC Bayern-Dann in the preliminary of the DFB Mug in Müngersdorf arena, a few kilometers away.

Besides a couple of VIP tickets, the duel is already marketed out. Since the encounter with FC Bayern is transferred online on ARD and also a great demand for map was foreseeable at a beginning, the third division group decided to take the step to the opposite side of the Rhine. However, those responsible did not expect to be able to fill up all locations right away. The Höhenberg sports park, normally the house location of the 3rd division group, has a total amount of 10,000 places.

In the Rhine-Energy Arena, 1. FC Köln is usually in the house, but which was launched from the trophy against Jahn Regensburg in the first round at the end of July. Since the Munich homeowners made the Supercup versus RB Leipzig at the time, the game Viktoria versus Bavaria was moved to a later date.