How to Prepare for an Away Matchday in Munich? Following Your Club Away in Allianz Arena

Allianz Arena away fans sit in blocks 339 to 347 of the upper tier, enter through gates 72 and 73 and, from this season, get through the turnstile only with a ticket inside the FC Bayern or Allianz Arena app. Bayern Munich stopped accepting PDF tickets, Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes at the start of 2026/27, and a Bayern match ticket does not include travel on the Munich U-Bahn. Those two facts catch out more travelling supporters than anything else about the ground.

This guide is written for the supporter who has drawn Munich away, or who is flying in to see their club play there, rather than the neutral choosing a seat in the home ends. If you are travelling as a neutral and want the widest choice of blocks, the listings for Bayern Munich tickets cover the whole bowl. Everything below is scoped to the away end, the trip out to Fröttmaning and the practical mistakes that cost supporters money or a place inside the ground.

Who Is Visiting Munich This Season

The 2026/27 calendar at the Allianz Arena is unusually good for supporters travelling from Britain. Arsenal visit on 21 October in the Champions League league phase, a rematch of the 3-1 win the Gunners took at the Emirates in November 2025 and the second English visit to Munich in 13 months after Chelsea lost 3-1 there in September 2025. The Allianz Arena's published fixture list, updated 2 September 2026, sets out the rest of the run.

Date	Fixture	Competition	Kick-off (local)
18 September 2026	Bayern Munich v Union Berlin	Bundesliga, matchday 4	20:30
1 October 2026	Germany vs Serbia	Germany Nations League, matchday 3	20:45
16 to 18 October 2026	Bayern Munich v RB Leipzig	Bundesliga, matchday 6	To be scheduled
21 October 2026	Bayern Munich vs Arsenal	Champions League, matchday 3	21:00
30 October to 1 November 2026	Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund (Der Klassiker)	Bundesliga, matchday 8	To be scheduled
8 December 2026	Bayern Munich vs Slavia Praha	Champions League, matchday 6	21:00
27 January 2027	Bayern Munich vs Real Betis	Champions League, matchday 8	21:00

Munich runs one hour ahead of the UK, so a 21:00 Champions League kick-off is 20:00 at home and the final whistle lands close to 23:00 local time. That matters for the U6 crush and for any flight the next morning. Bundesliga kick-off times for matchdays 6 and 8 are set by the German league in blocks during the season, so treat the weekend as fixed and the hour as open until the DFL confirms it. The full run of Bundesliga fixtures updates as those times land.

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Getting an Away Ticket Through Your Club

UEFA regulations oblige the home club to release at least 5% of the stadium capacity to the visiting club, which in Munich means a little under 3,800 seats in the upper north corner. Arsenal confirmed an allocation of 3,779 for the April 2024 quarter-final, all in blocks 339 to 347, and Celtic were given a similar number for their February 2025 play-off. The price is fixed by UEFA rather than Bayern: €50 is the maximum a home club can charge a visiting supporter in the 2026/27 Champions League, €35 in the Europa League and €20 in the Conference League.

How those seats are shared out is entirely the visiting club's business. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham and Celtic all run some form of away scheme or loyalty points ladder, and a European away in a city as attractive as Munich clears the top bands within hours. Two features of the English clubs' systems matter for this trip. First, the named member usually has to travel: photo ID is checked at collection points and can be demanded at the turnstile. Second, most clubs now issue European away tickets through their own app or as a digital transfer to the member, so the paperless rule described below applies to you even if you never touch the Bayern app yourself. Arsenal's dedicated ticket information for the 21 October match had not been published when this guide was written.

If you do not hold enough credits, the club route is closed and the honest answer is that home-end tickets bought through Bayern's own ballot are almost as hard to reach. The membership ballot mechanics are explained in our guide to Arsenal tickets without a membership and the competition-wide picture in how Champions League ticketing works. What remains is the resale market, which in Munich comes with one technical rule that decides whether your ticket works at all.

The App-Only Turnstile

On 30 April 2026 Bayern announced that, from the first home match of 2026/27, stadium access would run exclusively through the FC Bayern App and the Allianz Arena App. In the club's own wording, PDF tickets are no longer available and external wallets such as Apple Wallet or Google Wallet are no longer supported for stadium access. Tickets appear in the app's own ticket wallet roughly two weeks before the match, the QR code activates on matchday and the app blocks screenshots. A printout will not scan. A screenshot will not scan. A forwarded PDF from last season's guide will not scan.

Transfers still exist, but only through Bayern's Digital Ticket Center and the in-app wallet. That has three consequences for a travelling supporter:

• Any listing for a home-end seat has to be delivered as an app transfer to an account in your name. Ask the seller how the ticket reaches you before paying, not after.
• Download the app and log in at home on Wi-Fi. Stadium mobile coverage with 75,000 phones on the network is not the place to be creating an account.
• Carry a passport or national identity card. Bayern's ground regulations allow identity checks on transferred and away tickets, and stewards use them.

Away allocation tickets are issued to the visiting club, which then decides the format. For the April 2024 quarter-final, Bayern told Arsenal they could not offer physical tickets and the whole allocation went out as PDF links. Under the new system that format is gone, so expect your club to deliver through its own app or through Bayern's transfer system, and expect the deadline to accept the transfer to fall before you fly. If a listing anywhere promises a printable Allianz Arena ticket for a Bayern home match this season, the listing is out of date at best. Our guide to how to spot a copied or forged ticket covers the warning signs that apply everywhere.

Buying on the Resale Market Without Getting Burned

The secondary market is where most neutral visitors and most supporters who missed their club's allocation end up. Bayern's face values are low by European standards, roughly €15 for a standing place and €80 for the best Category 1 seats at a league match according to the club's published price list as of September 2026, with Champions League nights priced higher, so the gap between face value and what a visitor pays on resale is wide for the Arsenal match. The general mechanics of buying tickets for sold-out matches apply, with two Munich-specific rules on top: confirm app delivery, and do not buy a home-end seat expecting to wear your colours in it. Stewards move visibly visiting supporters out of home blocks, and the away sector is closed to anyone without a guest-sector ticket.

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Blocks 339 to 347: Where You Will Stand

The visiting sector is the upper tier of the north-east corner, blocks 339 to 347, at the opposite end of the ground from the Südkurve terrace that houses Bayern's ultras. The Allianz Arena's own information sheet for visiting fans, dated July 2025, sets out the geography: entry through the guest entrance at gates 72 and 73, turnstiles positioned in front of blocks 342 to 345, a separate material check for flags and drums at gate 77 and a permanent left-luggage depository at the guest entrance charging €2. For Bundesliga matches, when the allocation rises to around 7,500 or 10% of the 75,024 capacity, Bayern release middle-tier block 242 alongside the upper blocks to make up the number. For UEFA fixtures the bowl is all-seated at 70,000 and the away section stays in the 300s.

The view divides opinion. You are high, a long way from the players and behind climbing protection because there are executive boxes below. In the arena's favour, the upper ring is the steepest of the three tiers at 34 degrees, the bowl has no open corners and the roof covers every seat, so the sightline is complete even from the back row and you stay dry when the Bavarian weather turns. The full block-by-block breakdown, including which middle-tier blocks neutrals should avoid, sits on the Allianz Arena seating plan, and transport, history and venue detail on the Allianz Arena venue guide.

Away end essential	Detail	Source
Blocks	339 to 347, upper tier, north-east corner; block 242 added for domestic matches	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet, July 2025
Entrance	Guest entrance only, gates 72 and 73; Category 1 guests via gate 70	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Arrival route	Separate footpath from Fröttmaning U6 to the guest entrance, not the main Esplanade	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Departure route	All visitors exit via the south Esplanade to the U-Bahn	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Stadium opens	2 hours 15 minutes before kick-off	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Luggage	Depository at the guest entrance, €2	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Fan items	Flags on plastic poles up to 1.5 m, one per person; drums permitted in away blocks only; fence flags up to 1 m high	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
Food and drink	Sold on the concourse but must not be carried into the blocks	Allianz Arena visiting fans sheet
UEFA allocation	About 5% of capacity, roughly 3,750 to 3,800 seats, capped at €50	Arsenal FC, UEFA

Two rules in that table surprise first-time visitors. Food and drink bought on the concourse stays on the concourse in the guest sector, a response to years of complaints from home supporters in the boxes below, so eat and drink before you climb the stairs. And the Paulaner Fan-Treffs, the covered beer and food points on the promenade outside the ground, are open to home supporters only on safety grounds. The away concourse has its own bars, which sell the same Paulaner at the same price, but the pre-match beer garden atmosphere outside is not for you.

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Fröttmaning and the Long Walk

Take the U6. From Marienplatz in the centre, ride north in the direction of Garching-Forschungszentrum for about 16 minutes and get off at Fröttmaning, the penultimate stop. From the Hauptbahnhof, hop one S-Bahn stop to Marienplatz first. Home supporters then cross the raised Esplanade, a walk of 10 to 15 minutes; visiting supporters with a guest-sector ticket are directed off the Esplanade onto a signed footpath that leads straight to the guest entrance. Follow the stewards rather than the crowd, because the main flow goes to the south entrance and you will be turned back.

Your match ticket does not cover the train. The Allianz Arena's matchday page states it in plain terms: a match ticket does not entitle you to free travel on the MVV network, including S-Bahn, bus, underground, train and tram. Several German clubs bundle a KombiTicket into the match ticket; Bayern do not, and third-party guides that say otherwise are wrong. As of the January 2026 fare change, a Zone M single costs €4.20 and a Zone M single day ticket €10.10 (roughly £8.70), valid from first use until 06:00 the next morning, so the day ticket pays for itself on any matchday that starts with sightseeing. Buy in the MVGO app or at the machines; the MVV also runs a group day ticket for up to five adults at €32.60 that suits a travelling party.

From Munich Airport, the S1 and S8 S-Bahn lines both reach the city centre in about 40 minutes. The airport sits in fare zone 5, so a ticket covering zones M to 5 is needed for that leg; once in the city, Zone M covers everything you will use, including Fröttmaning. Gates open two and a quarter hours before kick-off. Allow 90 minutes from Marienplatz to your seat on a Champions League night: the train is 16 minutes on paper, but the platform queues, the footpath and the airport-style entry checks eat the rest.

Getting Out Again

The exit is the most complained-about part of a Munich away day and it is worth planning around. All visitors, home and away, leave by the south Esplanade towards the U-Bahn, so 75,000 people funnel onto a single station in the 30 minutes after the whistle. Trains run every few minutes, but expect to stand on the Esplanade for 20 to 40 minutes before you board. Anyone driving fares worse: the arena's own guidance says clearing the car parks after a full house takes up to two and a half hours.

Three practical options. Leave on the final whistle and walk briskly, accepting you will miss the players' lap of the pitch. Stay in your block for 20 minutes, which the stewards sometimes require of the away sector anyway before releasing it, and walk out into a thinner crowd. Or walk to Kieferngarten, the next U6 station towards the city, which adds roughly 25 minutes on foot and lets you board a train before it reaches the Fröttmaning crowd. Taxis and ride-hailing from the stadium ranks are slow and expensive after a night match, and a 23:00 finish means the last connections back into town become tight for anyone staying beyond the centre.

Bags, Beer and the Rulebook

The Allianz Arena bag policy is enforced at the walk-through metal detectors installed for the 2024/25 season, and it is the single most common reason supporters are held at the gate. Nothing larger than DIN A4, which is 21 by 29.7 centimetres, comes in: rucksacks, gym bags, fabric or plastic bags and handbags above that size are refused, and the only left luggage is the €2 depository at the guest entrance described above. Belt bags pass. Umbrellas with metal tips, selfie sticks, tripods, laptops and tablets, power banks over 100 grams, aerosols and any liquid other than an empty transparent PET bottle of 0.5 litres or less are all on the arena's prohibited list.

Inside, everything is cashless. Card, contactless and phone payments only, at every kiosk and bar, so leave the euro notes in the hotel. Alcohol is served in the stands at Bundesliga and Champions League matches alike, a difference from English grounds that many visitors enjoy. A half litre of Paulaner costs €5.90 (about £5.10) and a bratwurst €5.50 in 2026/27, according to Sky Sport's survey of all 18 Bundesliga clubs published in August 2026, which put Bayern at the top of the league for the combined price. Reusable cups carry a €2 deposit, refunded when you return the cup. Entry can be refused to anyone visibly drunk, smoking is banned in every block and cannabis consumption is prohibited across the whole site including the Esplanade and car parks.

The written rules are only half of it. German stewarding is firmer than the tone of the beer halls suggests, the police will separate colours in the city on a high-risk night and the standing culture in the German ends means you will be on your feet for 90 minutes whatever your ticket says. Our stadium etiquette guide covers the unwritten conventions that travel across borders.

Where to Drink Before Kick-Off

Munich's beer halls are the reason most supporters look forward to this trip, and the geography works in your favour: the city centre sits at one end of the U6 and the ground at the other, so you can drink until 90 minutes before kick-off and still be in your seat. Around Marienplatz, the Hofbräuhaus is the obvious first stop and the most touristed; the Augustiner Bräustuben near the Hauptbahnhof and the Augustiner-Keller beer garden on Arnulfstraße are where travelling supporters tend to gather in numbers, with Augustiner Helles served by the litre Maß. For an English-speaking room with the early kick-offs on screen, Kilians Irish Pub behind the Frauenkirche and Ned Kelly's Australian Bar on Frauenplatz have been the default meeting points for visiting fans for two decades.

Schwabing, the district the U6 runs through on the way north, is the smarter base for a pub crawl that ends at the ground: bars around Münchner Freiheit and Giselastraße are two stops apart and 12 minutes from Fröttmaning. What you should not do is plan to drink at the stadium. Fröttmaning is a park-and-ride interchange surrounded by open ground, the outdoor Fan-Treffs are home-only and the Paulaner am Nockherberg beer hall sometimes recommended online is on the other side of the city entirely. Have your last drink in town, buy the day ticket and ride out.

Beds, Flights and the Oktoberfest Trap

Oktoberfest 2026 runs from Saturday 19 September to Sunday 4 October on the Theresienwiese. Two fixtures on the Allianz Arena calendar fall inside it: Bayern v Union Berlin on Friday 18 September, the eve of the opening, and Germany v Serbia in the Nations League on Thursday 1 October. Munich hotel rates climb steeply across those 16 days, central rooms sell out weeks ahead and the U-Bahn after 20:00 is full of people in Tracht heading home from the tents. If your club's fixture lands in that window, book the room before the tickets. If it does not, the Arsenal match on 21 October falls a fortnight after the festival closes and the city returns to normal pricing.

For the flight, the direct options from Britain as of September 2026 are Lufthansa and British Airways from Heathrow, Lufthansa from Manchester and Birmingham, easyJet from Gatwick, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh, with seasonal easyJet services from Luton and Southend. Flight time is around one hour 50 minutes. On the ground, the two districts that make sense for a matchgoer are the Altstadt around Marienplatz, for the beer halls and a one-line ride to the ground, and Schwabing along the U6 itself. Avoid the temptation of a hotel near the arena; Fröttmaning has nothing around it and you would be riding into town for every meal. Supporters coming from the Gulf rather than Britain will find the same principles in our guide for Gulf supporters planning a London football weekend, with Munich swapping a visa question for a Schengen one.

Passports in 2026: EES Yes, ETIAS Not Yet

British passport holders now pass through the EU Entry/Exit System on arrival in Germany. EES launched on 12 October 2025 and became fully operational across the Schengen area on 10 April 2026, replacing the passport stamp with a fingerprint and facial scan registered on first entry and checked on later trips. The House of Commons Library briefing, updated in late August 2026, notes that the summer rollout produced long queues at major airports, so add time at Munich Airport on arrival and even more on departure, when several thousand supporters on the same handful of flights reach the biometric gates together.

ETIAS, the pre-travel authorisation with a fee set at €20, is not live. The EU removed its late-2026 launch target in July 2026 and has said it will give several months' notice before the system starts; the Commons Library briefing on EES and ETIAS is the cleanest single reference for the current position. You cannot apply for one and no website can legitimately sell you one. The passport rules that do apply are unchanged: issued within the last 10 years on the day you enter, valid for at least three months beyond the day you plan to leave.

A Spare Day in Munich

If you arrive the day before, the ground itself fills a morning. The guided Arena Tour combined with the FC Bayern Museum costs €25 per adult as of May 2026 and runs daily on non-matchdays from about 10:00 to 17:30, taking in the tunnel, the dressing rooms and the press room; the museum alone needs an hour to an hour and a half and is the largest club museum in Germany. Tours do not run on matchday itself, so this is a day-before activity. The Olympiapark, on the U3 from Marienplatz, holds the 1972 Olympiastadion where Bayern played until 2005 and is worth an hour for the stadium tower view alone.

Beyond football, the Englischer Garten is a short walk from the Schwabing U6 stations, the Viktualienmarkt food market sits behind Marienplatz and the Dachau memorial site is about 25 minutes away on the S2 plus a short bus ride. Sunday trading laws close almost every shop in the city, so anyone flying in for a Sunday Bundesliga fixture should not plan on buying anything other than food and drink that day.

Munich or Dortmund: Which Away Day Wins

Supporters who have done both tend to split. Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park is the louder ground, sits 15 minutes' walk from the city centre and puts visiting fans in the north-east corner opposite the near 25,000-capacity Yellow Wall; the city has less to offer beyond the match. Munich is the better weekend, the more expensive weekend and the more distant, higher away end. For anyone comparing prices, Borussia Dortmund tickets face-value at similar levels but resell for less outside the Klassiker and European knockout nights.

Factor	Allianz Arena, Munich	Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund
Capacity	75,024 league, 70,000 UEFA	81,365 league
Away end	Upper tier north-east corner, blocks 339 to 347	North-east corner across two tiers, opposite the south terrace
Ground to centre	U6, 16 minutes plus 10 to 15 minute walk	Walkable from the Hauptbahnhof in about 15 minutes
Transport in ticket	Not included	Included for Bundesliga matches
Beer, 0.5 litre, 2026/27	€5.90 Paulaner	Brinkhoff's, priced below Munich in the same Sky Sport survey
Weekend beyond football	Beer halls, Oktoberfest window, Alps within reach	Compact city, German Football Museum by the station

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Sources: FC Bayern München, Allianz Arena München Stadion GmbH, UEFA, Arsenal FC, Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund, City of Munich, House of Commons Library, Sky Sport, Bundesliga.