16 Jul 2008Hamburg set-up burial site for fans

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Fans of Hamburg SV are being given the chance to support their team forever as the club offered a new way for fans to be buried.

The club has designed a cemetery near its Nordbank arena where fans can be buried in club colours on a lawn shaped like a football stand.

It can be reached through a goal-shaped entrance and the scheme is open to all fans.

Costing about £80,000, the club is recouping the costs by charging fans burial contracts payable over 25 years and costing E2,500.

The scheme was started when fans requested to have their ashes scattered on the pitch, a process which is illegal in Germany.

Instead, the club came up with an alternative concept to offer fans a chance to stay connected with the club.

According to reports from the Guardian, ten fans have expressed an interest in securing a plot and undertakers and stonemakers have been recruited.

Football fans wanting to be buried with their clubs is nothing new, Everton is well known for allowing ashes of fans to be scattered around the pitch of Goodison Park, while Sunderland have also afforded their fans the same honour.

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