Buy Eintracht Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich tickets for the 2026/27 Season, with matchday 17 currently listed for Saturday 16 January 2027 and a 16:30 kick-off at the Deutsche Bank Park. The club has confirmed the round falls across the weekend of 15 to 17 January but that the exact kick-off has not yet been set by the league, so treat the time as provisional. The season began on 28 August 2026, later than usual after the summer tournament, which pushes matchday 17 into the new year.
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Very few fixtures in Germany carry this much recent history in so few meetings. Eight Bundesliga matches at this ground since 2018/19 have produced thirty-five goals, two separate 5-1 home wins and a 6-1 the other way. Anyone weighing up Eintracht Frankfurt tickets for this one is buying into a 59,500-capacity stadium that reliably delivers a scoreline worth travelling for.
The supply picture is the hard part. Frankfurt opened member sales for this exact fixture in August 2026, a full five months out, in a window that lasted twenty-four hours with a limit of two tickets per member. What was left after that is what the wider market has been working with ever since.
German clubs allocate by membership rather than by price, and Frankfurt run one of the tighter versions of that model. Members had their window on 19 August 2026, it closed the following morning and each of them could take a maximum of two tickets. There is no dynamic pricing mechanism that quietly opens more inventory when demand spikes.
The visiting support compounds it. Supporters holding Bayern Munich tickets go through their own club's allocation of roughly 2,500 in the Ostkurve, a figure that has never come close to matching the number who want to travel for a fixture of this profile. When that clears, the overflow looks at home sections and resale.
Then there is the ground itself. The Nordwestkurve was expanded to take the stadium to 59,500, and it is fitted throughout with safe-standing rails, which makes it one of the more sought-after home ends in Europe for visiting supporters who cannot stand at matches in their own country. Standing places start at around £15 equivalent, so the gap between what they cost and what people will pay is enormous.
Bayern arrive with Champions League football running through the winter, which tends to concentrate attention on a fixture rather than dilute it. Frankfurt have no European commitments this season, so the league is the entire focus, and a home match against the champions is one of the two or three dates their support builds the year around.
The calendar position adds to it. Matchday 17 lands only days after matchday 16 in the same mid-January week, so both clubs play twice inside a short window as league football resumes after the winter pause. Visitors planning a January trip around German football converge on that stretch of the calendar, and this is the highest-profile fixture in it.
Yes, through resale, and for most people that is now the only realistic route. Membership is what gets you into the priority window, and for this fixture that window opened and closed in August 2026. Anyone who was not a member by then was never in the queue.
Season tickets absorb another substantial block before members are served at all. What survives both stages reaches general sale, and for a Category A opponent at a ground this size it goes almost immediately. The two-ticket cap also means very little group inventory circulates through the club at all.
Face values explain why resale prices sit where they do. Standing places run from roughly £15 to £20 equivalent, upper tiers and corners from about £30 to £43, the standard sidelines from £43 to £64 and central lower tier and premium seating from £64 upwards. Bayern trigger the club's highest fixture category, so expect the upper end of each band before resale is even considered.
The marketplace exists for the people that system cannot reach: overseas buyers without a German membership, supporters who joined too late for the August window and groups who need more than two places together. Listings appear across the seated tiers and, where the club permits transfer, on the terrace as well.
One thing works in a patient buyer's favour. When a member window closes five months before a match, the people holding those tickets have five months for plans to change, and German clubs run their own exchange systems precisely so that unused tickets recirculate rather than leaving empty seats. Some of that supply reaches the open market, and most of it moves late rather than early.
Five things move the price here. Stand and tier come first, then the Category A classification this opponent triggers, then the January date, then how little inventory survived the member window and finally the hospitality level you pick. In Germany the category matters more than elsewhere, because face values are low and fixed, so the entire gap between face value and market value lands on resale.
The ranges below reflect typical resale behaviour for the champions visiting a ground where almost everything was committed months in advance.
| Ticket Type | Resale Price Range | Best For | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nordwestkurve standing | £85 – £160 | Supporters who want the terrace | The home end, fitted throughout with safe-standing rails. Lowest face value in the ground and the hardest place to get a place |
| Upper tiers and corners | £110 – £190 | Value buyers and late decisions | Elevated and off-centre, with a clean view of the whole pitch in a continuous bowl |
| Grabowski Tribune sidelines | £160 – £280 | Neutrals and first-time visitors | The side opposite the main stand, a steady crowd and the sensible middle ground |
| Haupttribune central | £250 – £420 | Buyers who want the main-stand view | The principal grandstand, holding the most central seating and the highest general face values |
| Business and VIP seating | £450 – £850+ | Couples, groups and business guests | Premium products at this ground are finite and largely committed to season-long clients |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift closer to the match.
The Deutsche Bank Park is a continuous four-sided bowl in the Stadtwald on the southern edge of Frankfurt, first opened in 1925 and redeveloped for football in 2005. Capacity now stands at 59,500 for league matches following the expansion of the home end. Use the Deutsche Bank Park seating plan to place each block before you commit.
| Area | What It Suits | Pricing Bracket | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nordwestkurve | Committed home support | Lower | The home end and the loudest part of the ground, fitted with safe-standing rails and recently expanded. Expect to be on your feet throughout with very little personal space. |
| Haupttribune | Comfort and the central view | Upper | The main stand, holding the premium seating and the most central blocks. The clearest sightline in the stadium and priced to match. |
| Jurgen Grabowski Tribune | Neutrals and mixed groups | Mid | The opposite sideline, named after one of the club's great players. Quieter than either curve and a steady choice for watching rather than singing. |
| Ostkurve, home sections | Home supporters wanting the end view seated | Mid | The east end, sharing the curve with the visiting allocation. Lively without the crush of the Nordwestkurve. |
| Upper tiers and corner blocks | Value hunters | Lower to mid | The balance point between price and sightline. A continuous bowl means a corner place still shows you the whole pitch. |
| Away section | Travelling Bayern support | Lower to mid | In the east end, typically around 2,500 places across lower and upper tiers, fitted with safe-standing rails. Visiting colours belong here and nowhere else. |
If you are neutral or undecided, the upper Grabowski Tribune is the sensible default and the central Haupttribune is the upgrade worth paying for. Anyone bringing children should avoid the Nordwestkurve, where constant standing and movement make sightlines unpredictable for shorter spectators. January in the Rhine-Main area is cold, so check whether your row sits under the roof before you buy, and use the Deutsche Bank Park tickets listings to compare what is open on the day.
A note for visitors on what rail seating actually means. These are not open terraces of the old kind: each place has a barrier and a fold-away seat that locks upright for domestic matches and drops down when a competition requires an all-seater configuration. You get the density and noise of standing with a defined place, which is why the format has spread across Germany and why buyers from all-seater countries seek it out.
Premium provision at the Deutsche Bank Park sits in and around the Haupttribune. German clubs price hospitality conservatively by European standards, which keeps the step up from a good seat to a premium one smaller than it would be in England or Spain and makes the products correspondingly harder to get hold of for a fixture like this.
| Hospitality Option | Typical Buyer | Main Appeal |
|---|---|---|
| Executive boxes | Companies and private groups | Enclosed space with its own viewing position, sold as a unit rather than per seat |
| Business seats | Couples and small business parties | Padded central seating on the main stand with indoor access before the match and at half time, which matters in January |
| Matchday lounge packages | Groups marking an occasion | Seat plus catering and bar access, the most common way into hospitality at this ground |
| Premium seats without catering | Buyers upgrading from general admission | A better seat and a warmer concourse without paying for the full package |
Check what any premium listing includes before you pay. Inclusions vary between products at this ground rather than following one standard package, and a box listed for a group is sold whole rather than as separate seats you can split.
Because premium inventory is finite and committed early, the productive habit is to check repeatedly across the final fortnight. Corporate clients who cannot use a January Saturday release late, and that is when premium seats reach the open market.
Frankfurt have moved to mobile ticketing for this fixture, which the club stated when sales opened. Confirm the delivery method before you buy, particularly if you are flying in on the day.
| Delivery Type | What to Check |
|---|---|
| Mobile ticket | That the ticket opens without a data connection and that any name on it matches your identification. Load it into your phone wallet before you leave, because the approach through the Stadtwald is not the place to be troubleshooting an app. |
| Print at home (PDF) | Print before travelling where the listing offers it. Barcode quality matters and a faded code slows the turnstile for everyone behind you. |
| Collection in Frankfurt | The collection window, the meeting point and the identification required. The ground sits well outside the centre, so allow time for the S-Bahn in both directions. |
| Courier delivery | That the address is reachable before you travel and that the ticket is issued in the name of the person attending. |
Three habits prevent most problems here. Read the listing notes in full, including whether the ticket is a standing place rather than a seat. Carry photo identification for everyone in your group. Charge your phone properly, because a January queue in the woods south of Frankfurt is not where you want a flat battery. Turnstiles open well ahead of kick-off and the S-Bahn fills quickly, so arriving early costs nothing.
1BoxOffice has operated as a verified marketplace since 2006 and every order carries a 150% money-back guarantee, so the sequence below should take minutes rather than an evening.
Step1
Open the right fixture
Check the listing shows the January 2027 date in Frankfurt. The reverse fixture is played in Munich later in the season, so confirm the date and venue before going further.
Step2
Set up your details
You can create an account before browsing or during checkout. Doing it first is quicker, and your details are ready when a listing appears in a market this tight.
Step3
Decide between standing and seated
This is the first real choice at a German ground. The Nordwestkurve is a rail-seating terrace while the rest of the stadium is seated, and the two are completely different experiences at comparable prices on resale.
Step4
Set the quantity before filtering
Enter how many places you need first. The club capped member purchases at two, so larger blocks barely exist on resale, and filtering by quantity saves you opening listings that cannot seat your group.
Step5
Read the listing notes
Check the delivery method, whether the block is standing or seated, whether places are guaranteed together and any name on the ticket. This one step prevents most matchday surprises in Germany.
Step6
Check the total before paying
Review the full price including fees and delivery. Compare two or three listings in the same tier, because the bands at this ground are clearly separated.
Step7
Complete the purchase
Pay through the secure checkout and keep the confirmation email. Your order reference answers every question that follows, so save it where you can find it on the day.
Step8
Follow the order through to delivery
Use track order to check the status at any point. Mobile tickets are commonly released close to the match once the league fixes the exact kick-off, so a quiet status through the autumn is normal.
Frankfurt is one of the easiest cities in Europe to reach and the ground is genuinely simple to get to once you are there. The stadium has its own railway station, with S-Bahn lines S7, S8 and S9 running from the Hauptbahnhof to the Stadion stop, tram line 21 going directly to the ground and bus 61 serving it from the Sudbahnhof. Frankfurt Airport is a short train ride from both the centre and the stadium, which makes this one of the few marquee European fixtures that works as a genuine day trip from almost anywhere.
Plan the pre-match differently to an English away day. The Deutsche Bank Park sits in the Stadtwald on the southern edge of the city and is surrounded by forest rather than pubs, so drinks happen in central Frankfurt before you travel out. For delivery, mobile tickets suit travellers best given the club's own move to them, and courier options to a foreign address add days you may not have. If places together matter, confirm it before buying rather than after, because a listing for four does not automatically mean four adjacent places in a ground with a standing end.
For supporters travelling from the Gulf the connection is unusually direct. Frankfurt Airport is one of the largest hubs in Europe and carries daily services from the major Middle Eastern carriers, with the stadium reachable by train from the terminal without going through the city centre. Few marquee European fixtures are this easy to attend on a short trip from the region.
The clubs have met more than 150 times in competitive football and Bayern are well ahead on the overall record, which is what you would expect. The reason this fixture has become one of the most watched dates in the German calendar is what has happened at this specific ground over the past seven seasons.
In November 2019 Frankfurt beat Bayern 5-1 here, a result that cost the visiting head coach his job inside twenty-four hours. In December 2023 they did it again by exactly the same scoreline. In between, Bayern won 6-1 on the opening weekend of 2022/23 and Frankfurt won 2-1 in February 2021. Eight meetings, thirty-five goals, and only one of them drawn.
What gives the January 2027 fixture its weight is the sheer unpredictability of the sample. Three home wins, four away wins, one draw and an average of more than four goals a game is not a pattern, it is a guarantee of entertainment. For a buyer choosing between German fixtures in a single winter weekend, that record is the argument.
The table below covers every Bundesliga meeting between the sides at the Deutsche Bank Park with Frankfurt as hosts since 2018/19.
| Metric | Total |
|---|---|
| Matches played | 8 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt wins | 3 |
| Bayern Munich wins | 4 |
| Draws | 1 |
| Eintracht Frankfurt goals | 16 |
| Bayern Munich goals | 19 |
| Biggest Eintracht Frankfurt win | 5-1 (November 2019 and December 2023) |
| Biggest Bayern Munich win | 6-1 (August 2022) |
| First Bundesliga meeting in scope | 22 December 2018 |
| Most recent meeting in scope | 4 October 2025 |
Figures calculated from the verified match-by-match results below, cross-checked against Bundesliga match records, Fussballdaten and ESPN match reports.
| Date | Score |
|---|---|
| 04 Oct 2025 | Frankfurt 0-3 Bayern Munich |
| 06 Oct 2024 | Frankfurt 3-3 Bayern Munich |
| 09 Dec 2023 | Frankfurt 5-1 Bayern Munich |
| 05 Aug 2022 | Frankfurt 1-6 Bayern Munich |
| 26 Feb 2022 | Frankfurt 0-1 Bayern Munich |
| 20 Feb 2021 | Frankfurt 2-1 Bayern Munich |
| 02 Nov 2019 | Frankfurt 5-1 Bayern Munich |
| 22 Dec 2018 | Frankfurt 0-3 Bayern Munich |
Every result above was confirmed against at least two independent match records before publication.
The member window for this fixture opened on 19 August 2026 and ran for twenty-four hours with a two-ticket limit. Anything reaching the wider market since then has come through resale rather than a fresh club release.
Yes, in the Nordwestkurve, which is fitted throughout with safe-standing rails and was expanded to take the ground to 59,500. The away end carries rail seating too.
In the Ostkurve at the east end, across lower and upper tiers, with an allocation of around 2,500. Visiting colours should be worn in that section only.
The stadium has its own station. Take S-Bahn line S7, S8 or S9 from the Hauptbahnhof to Stadion, or tram 21 directly. Bus 61 runs from the Sudbahnhof for anyone approaching from the south.
Not yet. The club has said the round falls between 15 and 17 January 2027 but that the league has not fixed the exact slot, so book flexible travel and check again nearer the date.
Sources: Eintracht Frankfurt official ticketing announcements for the member sale window, purchase limits and delivery method; Bundesliga official fixture listings for the matchday and scheduling status; Bundesliga match records, Fussballdaten and ESPN match reports for verified head-to-head results; Wikipedia and Football Ground Guide for stadium capacity, stand names, away allocation and transport; Goal for 2026/27 ticket price bands.