German third-tier soccer membership Dynamo Dresden has mentioned it offered greater than 72,000 tickets for a recreation performed in an empty stadium with no followers.
The previous East German champions supplied supporters the “ghost tickets” – named for the German behavior of dubbing empty-stadium matches “ghost video games” – for 5 euros ($A8) as a approach to elevate funds for the membership through the coronavirus pandemic.
The overall of 72,112 tickets offered for Tuesday’s German Cup recreation towards Darmstadt is greater than double the capability of Dresden’s Rudolf Harbig stadium.
Solely two matches within the membership’s historical past, each away video games, had extra individuals in attendance, Dresden mentioned.
Dresden misplaced the sport 3-0 to tier-two Darmstadt.