SV Hamburg built the specially-designed 500 capacity cemetery within a throw-in's distance of its Nordbank Arena stadium.
The club, whose anthem is "HSV forever and ever", wanted to allow the spirits of departed followers the chance to keep tabs on their beloved team's performances.
Fans have the chance to be buried in club colours on a football stand-shaped piece of lawn, made from grass from the actual pitch, with graves arranged on three tiers in a semi-circle and accessible via a goal-shaped gate.
The Cemetary where Departed Supporters can Still Support Their Team
Organisers say the £80,000 scheme, funded by the supporters' club and sponsors, is open to anyone willing to pay the burial contract of £2,000 every 25 years.
Scattering ashes is illegal in Germany, so the idea of the cemetery was born, with the club giving licences to local undertakers to administer 'HSV-recognised' burials and stonemasons to create specially-customised headstones in the team's blue and white colours.
HSV fan Ernst Schmidt, an 81-year-old widower, said he may reserve a plot so long as he can be interred next to his wife.
"I'm going to enquire whether it's possible," Schmidt told reporters. "I've been an HSV fan for 57 years. My life, it's only football."
Source: www.ananova.com
The club, whose anthem is "HSV forever and ever", wanted to allow the spirits of departed followers the chance to keep tabs on their beloved team's performances.
Fans have the chance to be buried in club colours on a football stand-shaped piece of lawn, made from grass from the actual pitch, with graves arranged on three tiers in a semi-circle and accessible via a goal-shaped gate.
The Cemetary where Departed Supporters can Still Support Their TeamOrganisers say the £80,000 scheme, funded by the supporters' club and sponsors, is open to anyone willing to pay the burial contract of £2,000 every 25 years.
Scattering ashes is illegal in Germany, so the idea of the cemetery was born, with the club giving licences to local undertakers to administer 'HSV-recognised' burials and stonemasons to create specially-customised headstones in the team's blue and white colours.
HSV fan Ernst Schmidt, an 81-year-old widower, said he may reserve a plot so long as he can be interred next to his wife.
"I'm going to enquire whether it's possible," Schmidt told reporters. "I've been an HSV fan for 57 years. My life, it's only football."
Source: www.ananova.com
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