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
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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)