seen as a miracle that nobody was killed but the events did lead to 137 injured people. The game is thought to have had the greatest attendance of any second division football match in the world to this date. After the first game of the two, spectator figures somewhat normalised. In the years to come in the second division, FCA played as a lower table side while 1860 played for promotion. Consequently, the number of spectators for the encounters of the two declined, to a low of 8,000 in 1976. More commonly, the games attracted around 20,000. Briefly, the ways of the two clubs parted when 1860 returned to the Bundesliga while FCA was relegated to the third division Bayernliga. The last encounter of the two in professional football for almost 20 years came in April 1979. After TSV 1860 was forcibly relegated to the third division for financial reasons in 1982, the two sides met at that level from 1983 onwards for the next eight seasons with, at times, still heated encounters, depending on the ambition and success of the two sides. 1860 returned to professional football in 1991, for just a season, played in the Bayernliga once more in 1992-93 and then finally made a permanent return to professional football. FCA stayed behind and the two sides would not meet again in a league match for 13 years. In this era, FCA had to contend itself with encounters with its rivals reserve side, TSV 1860 München II, with the two teams meeting in the Bayernliga and Regionalliga, but with spectator figures ranging between a couple of hundred to a few thousand rather than tenthousands. In 2006, Augsburg returned to same league as 1860, the 2nd Bundesliga, and the rivalry was renewed. Memories of 1973 were revoked when FCA traveled to Munich in March 2007 and the game attracted 69,000. Since then, crowds have declined to an average 30,000, still healthy for the second division. With FCA's promotion to the Bundesliga in 2011, the two sides once more parted ways. With the TSV 1860 in financial trouble since 2006 and coming close to insolvency in 2011, a meeting of the two clubs and top level seemed unlikely. Financial rescue for the club in the form of Jordanian investor Hasan Abdullah Ismaik however has seen the club saved and ambitions raised once more. The 2011–12 season marked only the second