Supporters
Despite spending recent years in the lower divisions, the club's fan support has remained strong: with 21,396 per game Eintracht Braunschweig had the 24th highest average attendance of any sports team in Germany during the 2011–12 season.
Eintracht Braunschweig has a strong rivalry with Hannover 96, while friendly fan relations exist with 1. FC Magdeburg, SV Waldhof Mannheim, and FC Basel.
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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)