What is so different about FC St. Pauli? Why is our club taking a different path than many others? Without investors. With no outsourcing of the professional football department. As a member-run club.
These pictures provide clues. If you want to know more about how FC St. Pauli became what it is today, you can experience its path through catastrophes, miracles and neighbourhood quakes in the FC St. Pauli Museum in the Gegengerade.
(1) Politics and social criticism have a firm place at the Millerntor. Here a fan choreo in favour of diversity and against discrimination at the home match against Borussia Mönchengladbach (2011).
(2) In 1991, FC St. Pauli was the first club in German professional football to adopt stadium regulations explicitly prohibiting racist and right-wing slogans in the stadium. In November 1991, fans and club management set another example – with the banner campaign ‘Keinen Fußbreit den Faschisten’ (‘No Fascists’). Today, the slogan ‘No football for fascists’ is an integral part of the Millerntor stadium.
(3) ‘Burghausen, Bochum, Bremen, Bielefeld, Bayern, Bokal – and then Parcelona’: Unfortunately, the prophecy on this double banner was not fulfilled in 2005/6. However, the ‘Bokal’ series of the then third division club FC St. Pauli against teams with a ‘B’ in the DFB Cup played a decisive role in the construction of the new Millerntor Stadium. Not least thanks to the TV money. The series only ended in the semi-final (0:3 against FC Bayern Munich).
(4) Political protest meets fan culture: this was new at the end of the 1980s. When the board of FC St. Pauli announced in the winter break of 1988/89 that the Millerntor Stadium, built in 1961, was to be demolished and replaced by a gigantic ‘sports dome’, fans and neighbourhood residents took to the streets. The protest also took place inside the stadium. With success: the Millerntor was retained. The birth of the organised fan scene gave rise to the ‘Millerntor Roar!’ fanzine and, a little later, the St. Pauli fan shop.
(5) 20 May 2024: The 1st team of FC St. Pauli presents the 2nd Bundesliga championship trophy at the championship celebration on Spielbudenplatz. It is now a permanent exhibit in the FC St. Pauli Museum. You can visit it at any time during museum opening hours!
(6) and (7) Pictures from another era: In the 70s and early 80s, events at the Millerntor were intended to attract more spectators to the stadium. Among other things: Circus elephants and a brass band. Scenes like these are unimaginable today. The loudspeakers at the Millerntor are silent before the teams kick off. And even during the game, there are no presentations of corner kicks and the like. The rule is: full concentration on authentic sport!
(8) South stand at the Hamburger Stadtderby (Hamburg city derby) on 14 October 2022. FC St. Pauli wins 3:0 against Hamburger SV.