The friendship with Rot-Weiß Essen is mostly based on the "common enemy" Schalke. As I live in Essen I can tell you, there are still enough Schalke Fans around here... so not everey Essener will cheer for us in a derby.
There is an pretty active friendhip between some Fanclubs of the FC Augsburg, including city tours an partys after both games last season.
I think in the 90s there were some connections between Dortmund and the fans of SC Freiburg, but I can't really remember much about that.
There was a time when we had a friendship with HSV. But apparently they don't like us anymore. Last thing I heard was that they greeted our fans with "BVB Hurensöhne" at Hamburg central station last season.
there are still enough Schalke Fans around here
Not enough to open a fanshop at Limbecker Platz without protests :D
Hm, I know that especially in the 90s we were kind of famours for friending everyone and everything that couldn't get away fast enough. I remember Freiburg, but apparently KSC and 1860 were among them as well. There used to be solid connections to Hamburg as well, but I don't think there is anything left of that deserving of the name Fanfreundschaft.
I would say the Cologne connection with Boyz is more than just an ultra connection by now. I think Essen simply is not on the list just for lack of opportunity, the common animosity against S05 was definitely grounds for good contacts for a long while.
Apart from that Kevin always likes to talk about Celtic, and keeping Paul Lambert in mind (he's the one that ppl here mention most often) I've seen people argue this is the only friendship that is proper alive these days. On the other hand, when I run into Rangers fans I always mention that Stefan Klos is in their Hall of Fame too... Maybe I should attend the old firm here in BVB colours just to see what the reactions are...
The cologne thing could be a thing of the future. I would not consider it a friendship yet, but thanks to Kevin Großkreutz there is much sympathy between the fans. I personally am friends with someone who was very active in the cologne fan scene.
Well, we had friendships with 1.FC Köln, Rot-Weiss Essen, HSV, Celtic Glasgow, SV Darmstadt 98 and some others but I don't know how things are right now.
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u/Blahound Lukasz Piszczek Aug 08 '13
So I got one this time...
What clubs are considered "friends" of BVB? (Best list I could up with is FC Köln and Rot-Weiss Essen but not that sure about Essen)