Safe standing - time to act

[Stadt]

Whelan went to an event on safe standing about 10 years ago so it’s not like they’re unaware.

 

The party line seems to be it’ll happen with expansion but that’s moving like DJ Campbell getting back on side.

 

It’s especially shit given they’re so oh so bothered about safety with digital tickets and stewarding but not this.

 

[purpleronnie]

barnet will be installing safe standing.

 

CLUB DEVELOPMENTS & SEASON TICKET PRICING AHEAD OF THE 2024/25 CAMPAIGN – Barnet Football Club (barnetfc.com)

 

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Finally, we are creating a safe-standing area in the East Stand next to the new tunnel. Season tickets and matchday tickets will be available to buy here and will be at a reduced rate for adults and concessions; less than the 2023/24 pricing in fact. We hope this new safe-standing area (name TBC but any suggestions are welcome!) will become a very noisy and fun space within the stadium for supporters to enjoy.

 

Edited 24 May by purpleronnie

[Corky]

Noisy and fun space? In a football ground!!?? 

[davieG]

https://www.fanseurope.org/news/fse-welcomes-uefa-decision-to-extend-safe-standing-to-five-new-countries/

 

May 22, 2024

FSE WELCOMES UEFA DECISION TO EXTEND SAFE STANDING TO FIVE NEW COUNTRIES 

 

Two years of standing in UEFA Club Competitions demonstrates it is safe. 

Following its meeting in Dublin today, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that it has approved the extension of its Standing Facilities Observer Programme to five additional countries, taking the total number to ten. 

Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland, Portugal, and Austria will now join Germany, France, England, Spain, and Italy in being permitted to use, in line with domestic regulations, standing tribunes for all UEFA club competition games. The permission covers both home and away sectors were standing facilities are available (and visiting clubs choose to use them). 

This follows on from permission being given to clubs in Germany, France, and England at the beginning of the 2022-23 season as a part of UEFA’s Standing Facilities Observer Programme. 

Football Supporters Europe (FSE) and supporters’ organisations from across the continent had campaigned for UEFA to change its policy on standing at football stadia through our successful continent-wide ‘Europe Wants to Stand’ campaign. 

Despite Spain, Italy, and Portugal being included in the Observer Programme on the basis of the UEFA Access List, these countries are unlikely to take part next season due to either domestic legal boundaries or a lack of facilities at present.  

FSE hopes these countries will be encouraged by the positive findings in Germany, France, and England and will move to dismantle regulatory or infrastructural roadblocks to improve experiences for supporters. In recent years, France, England, Scotland, and the Netherlands have all successfully reintroduced standing in stadiums. Standing also helps to keep match tickets affordable, as identified in FSE’s UEFA Club Competition Away Ticket Price Analysis. 

FSE Executive Director Ronan Evain said: “Standing at matches positively contributes to the atmosphere of games enormously, is a significant element of fan culture across the continent, and helps to lower the pricing for these games generally. We commend UEFA for adding new countries into its Standing Facilities Observer Programme and we’re pleased to see that the initial pilot countries have demonstrated this. 

“We welcome the continuation of UEFA’s evidence-based approach on standing, considering the needs and expectations of active fans. This is about giving fans a choice in how to support their team in a safe manner, just as they do during domestic fixtures.”

Europe Wants to Stand campaign coordinator and FSE Board member Gregor Weinreich said: “At my club, Bayern Munich, we have now enjoyed two years of standing at UCC games. It has demonstrated that standing at European matches is just as safe as it is during domestic matches.  

“The extension of the Observer programme is the logical next step to broaden the base of evidence supporting the case for standing during UCC matches. We are hopeful that the continued evidence gathering will inform revisions to UEFA’s regulations in seasons to come.” 

[Corky]

Even the way other clubs talk about it is worlds away from ours. Fans creating noise, having fun, getting involved, enhancing the experience etc.

 

We'll probably have a two sentence statement saying as per the regulations, we install this section.

 

 

[purpleronnie]

If you go to 4 minutes it shows some of the safe standing installed at the new Everton ground.

 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

Always said we'll be the last team in the 92 to install proper safe standing.

 

We'll definitely be in the last 10

 

How many clubs currently have safe standing, is there a list anywhere?

[foxile5]

1 minute ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Always said we'll be the last team in the 92 to install proper safe standing.

 

We'll definitely be in the last 10

 

How many clubs currently have safe standing, is there a list anywhere?

Will all clubs who have safe standing please stand up

[purpleronnie]

Just now, foxile5 said:

Will all clubs who have safe standing please stand up

safely

[rugbyblue]

I've watched this a number of times. Was fantastic to be part of what felt like an old fashioned terrace goal celebration.  Safe standing makes a hell of a difference.  And you young uns.......look there are old geezers going mental too giving it big "limbs".  

 

Come on top and rudkin......give us this one thing if nothing else 

 

 

[broughtonblue]

Was at Norwich's Carrow Road the other day, and there's is mostly in!

[Lako42]

Just to reiterate.... Again 

 

 

The club don't give a flying **** about the fans...... Full stop

[H.a.r.r.y]

maybe the club are sparing us of the likely embaressment of our fans sitting in safe standing areas...

[ShepshedFox1884]

On 08/06/2024 at 23:22, H.a.r.r.y said:

maybe the club are sparing us of the likely embaressment of our fans sitting in safe standing areas...

Surely wouldn’t happen in SK1 or L1 the only 2 areas of the ground without happy clappers

[bmt]

On 08/06/2024 at 23:22, H.a.r.r.y said:

maybe the club are sparing us of the likely embaressment of our fans sitting in safe standing areas...

To be fair you can't force them to move from where they've always sat...

[Stadt]

16 minutes ago, bmt said:

To be fair you can't force them to move from where they've always sat...

They can

[SemperEadem]

https://www.unionfs.co.uk/sectionreview.html
 

“Safe Standing

There have been no updates at all from LCFC this season in relation to safe standing. Going into 2024/25, LCFC will be 1 of only 4 clubs in the league that choose not to provide a safe standing area to their fans, or have plans to do so. As we have done for over a decade, the group will lobby on this topic at every opportunity, but it is up to LCFC to take action on this topic. The more likely scenario is that LCFC will take action only when the pressure from the SGSA and SAG becomes overbearing, rather than taking pro-active steps themselves.”

[bigpapagoldy]

Why won’t the club put safe standing in, we have nothing in the way of news in regards of expansion, won’t expand the singing section, just a big wall of silence, am i missing something, or is the owners just not interested anymore ?

[Sol thewall Bamba]

16 hours ago, bigpapagoldy said:

Why won’t the club put safe standing in, we have nothing in the way of news in regards of expansion, won’t expand the singing section, just a big wall of silence, am i missing something, or is the owners just not interested anymore ?

They'll do it eventually but only because they'll be told to. They won't do it off their own back.

[purpleronnie]

this happened last season but people might not be aware.

 

A little video which contains the installation of safe standing at pride Park.

 

 

And the start of the new home end at Southampton that will eventually have a 7000 safe standing area.

 

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Southampton's new home and away ends. If a club actually wants to do it, they will just do it.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

[SemperEadem]

Looks great that.

[Nolucklcfc]

Looks great but gets me more pissed off at our club that there is zero progress on it 

[steveherbe]

Just one of the reasons I probably won't be going back to the KP, after supporting the City for 69 years. Makes me sad, but the club is a million miles away from the one I started going to at the age of 3.