Football Trips to Frankfurt

Football Trips to Frankfurt

The skyline glints, the Main slides past, and south of the river the day changes colour. For football trips to Frankfurt, the rhythm often starts in Sachsenhausen and finishes beneath the lights at Deutsche Bank Park, still called the Waldstadion by supporters. We package the flight, hotel and match entry together, with a ticket guarantee, so you can sink into the city, the build-up and the game itself.

Sachsenhausen starts with a Bembel

Alt-Sachsenhausen is where the football day gathers pace. Klappergasse, Kleine Rittergasse and Große Rittergasse fill with red, black and white shirts, laughter from old taverns, and the sharp, earthy scent of local apple wine. It comes from a Bembel, poured into a ribbed Gerippte glass, and it tastes exactly like this part of the city feels: direct, proud and a little rough around the edges.

For many of our travellers, this is the point where a Bundesliga weekend in Frankfurt becomes more than ninety minutes. We have sent over 50,000 fans across Europe since 2008, and this corner of town always feels like a proper beginning. If you want the whole journey arranged around the fixture, our packages for Frankfurt home games bring the essentials together without taking away the anticipation.

  • We would start with Frankfurter Grüne Soße if the table is sharing plates and the mood is easy.
  • Handkäs mit Musik is the brave local order: tangy cheese, onions and a name that always gets a smile.
  • Frankfurter sausages and loin ribs suit the slow build-up before the move towards the forest.
  • On Klappergasse, the Frau Rauscher fountain spits water at random, which feels perfectly Sachsenhausen.

This is also a smart area for fans who like local character rather than polished sameness. Our ideas for a well-planned football weekend and trips with a more unusual feel both fit the spirit of a day that begins with apple wine and ends in a forest bowl of noise.

Through the Stadtwald to Deutsche Bank Park

The approach to Deutsche Bank Park is the signature scene. Instead of stepping out into concrete concourses, you move through the Frankfurt Stadtwald, where trees frame the route and songs drift ahead through the branches. The ground opened on 21 May 1925 as part of a 42-hectare sports park, and its first major football occasion was the German championship final that same year.

Today, the football capacity is 59,500, including 20,000 standing places. The 2005 redevelopment added the retractable roof, built from 32 segments that can fold in around 15 minutes. Above the pitch hangs a 6.9-tonne central video cube, with a display surface of roughly 276 square metres. The scale is impressive, but the setting keeps it distinctive: city forest outside, roaring arena within.

The details make the walk memorable:

  • The old Waldstadion name still lives in chants, conversations and instinct.
  • The tree-lined route gives the arrival a pilgrimage feeling, especially on evening fixtures.
  • The roof turns the sound inward, so every burst from the home end feels closer.
  • The central cube gives the interior a dramatic focal point before kick-off.

The eagle, the anthem and the Nordwestkurve

Inside, Frankfurt’s identity is impossible to miss. Since the club became the main tenant in 2020, the venue has taken on a stronger home look: black seats, white stairways and “Eintracht vom Main” lettering. The Nordwestkurve is the emotional core, described by the club as the second-largest standing terrace in the Bundesliga.

Before the game, “Im Herzen von Europa” pulls the place together. First played here in 1997, it has become a ritual rather than a soundtrack. Then there is Attila, the live golden eagle mascot, discovered at an air show in 2006 before later making a public debut at a DFB Cup final. Frankfurt fan culture is bold, visual and loud; Ultras Frankfurt, founded in 1997, are known for huge choreographies, flags and coordinated singing.

As of March 2023, Frankfurt reported more than 1,100 official fan clubs with around 80,000 members. That depth explains why European nights in the city can feel so charged. If floodlights and continental drama are your idea of the perfect football trip, our Europa League football trips show how powerful these evenings can be when the whole ground leans into the occasion.

Fixtures that make the forest shake

Some games give Deutsche Bank Park an extra edge. Regional meetings bring a sharper pulse, and the Hesse derby carries its own bite. There is also a deeper rivalry rooted in the 1959 German championship final, when Frankfurt won 5-3 after extra time and lifted the national title. Those stories still sit under the surface when the noise rises.

Frankfurt have the silverware to match the passion: German champions in 1959, UEFA Cup winners in 1980 and Europa League winners in 2022. During that 2022 run, around 30,000 supporters travelled to Barcelona, a number that says more than any slogan could. Big Bundesliga evenings suit the Waldstadion under floodlights, when the roof glows and the forest outside turns black.

If you like fixtures with extra tension, our football trips built around derby weekends are made for that sharper kind of anticipation. For a wider view of dates and travel options, the Bundesliga calendar with Football Travel helps shape the season into a trip worth waiting for.

A football trip to Frankfurt is a full-day story: apple wine in Sachsenhausen, songs through the Stadtwald, and a stadium that still answers to its old name. We take care of the flight, hotel and guaranteed entry, so all that is left is the walk, the lights and that first roar from the Nordwestkurve.