{"id":55663,"date":"2026-04-05T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/55663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:25:15","slug":"police-chase-fans-off-the-field-in-clashes-at-german-club-game-in-dresden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/55663\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chase fans off the field in clashes at German club game in Dresden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRESDEN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Large groups of fans invaded the field and threw flares before being chased away by police in a German second-division soccer game between Dynamo Dresden and Hertha Berlin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Dresden fans in the club\u2019s yellow and black colors ran the length of the field toward a section containing fans of visiting team Hertha, who also jumped a fence and moved toward the field. Lit flares were thrown from both sides, some of them landing near spectators, and some fans seemed to trade blows.<\/p>\n<p>Police then stormed onto the field from an entrance in the corner of the stadium and chased dozens of Dresden supporters back toward the other end. <\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured or if there had been arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Sven Jablonski stopped the game and took the players off for over 15 minutes. During that time, police formed two lines across the field facing the Dresden supporters. A banner in Hertha\u2019s blue and white colors was set alight and displayed in the Dresden end. <\/p>\n<p>The game eventually resumed. It was the second stoppage after an earlier delay when fans let off pyrotechnics and smoke filled the stadium. Hertha won the game 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there was fan unrest at the final whistle when <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bundesliga-scores-bayern-kane-dortmund-leipzig-85620ecf8ec53adac23d021ff06b7232\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borussia Dortmund beat Stuttgart 2-0<\/a> in a top-division game. A group of Stuttgart fans approached the field but stopped behind advertising boards and a chair was thrown onto the field.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRESDEN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Large groups of fans invaded the field and threw flares before being chased away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,6185,30806,1162,190,30873,133,135,30874],"class_list":{"0":"post-55663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-borussia-dortmund","10":"tag-dresden","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-houston-dynamo","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sven-jablonski"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116352563572367830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}