Union Berlin Hoping to Hold Pre-season Friendly With 3000 Spectators

German soccer club Union Berlin wants to hold a pre-season friendly match with 3,000 spectators and is hoping that preventative coronavirus tests for fans will allow it to happen.

The Bundesliga club says it has applied to the local Treptow-Kpenick health authorities for permission to hold the game with an altered hygiene plan on Sept. 5.

Union says a preventative test for all spectators is intended to replace the currently valid social distancing rules.

German soccer clubs previously outlined plans to resume games with some socially distanced fans attending in seated areas. Unions Stadion An der Alten Frsterei has mostly standing terraces so it could have far fewer fans attending than its competitors.