The OL-ASSE meeting, which will take place on Sunday evening at Groupama Stadium, has been classified as very high risk.
Despite the travel ban on Saint-Etienne supporters for the Lyon-Saint-Etienne derby on Sunday (8:45 p.m.) at a sold-out crowd as part of the 11th day of Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais will closely monitor behavior in the stands. This meeting was classified as very high risk (5 out of 5) by the National Directorate for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH, dependent on the Ministry of the Interior).
OL has reserved its ticketing for subscribers, members of loyalty programs and its supporters, namely those who have already been customers at least once. The club is also very attentive to the illegal resale of tickets: “We have canceled resold tickets and issued stadium commercial bans (ICS). We have also spotted counterfeit tickets and people who bought them risk being turned away at the entrance.warns a spokesperson for Olympique Lyonnais. OL has opened as many seats as possible for sale, including some in boxes for the general public.
After the recent remarks of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who said he “in favor of stopping a match in the event of homophobic chants”the club recalled that it raises awareness among its supporter groups at each match of the season on the issue of insulting, racist or violent chants. On November 21, 2021, the Lyon-Marseille Ligue 1 match was stopped after four minutes of play when Marseillais Dimitri Payet received a plastic bottle on the head, thrown by a spectator, while he was getting ready to play a corner. The only flags authorized on Sunday in the stadium must be related to the nationality of the players in the Lyon squad, in order to avoid tensions relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular, from arising during the match. Finally, to prevent the throwing of projectiles, the protective nets of the Groupama stadium will be pulled up.
