A major change will take place in the coming days in Football stadiums.
Watching games with family in stadiums has always been a pleasure for many sports fans. But for several years now, depending on the location and the matches, coming to attend a match requires certain precautions and even certain cancellations for fear of a possible overflow. And the restrictions will tighten further in the coming days.
Violence and discriminatory chants, increasingly frequent in sports venues, are in fact in the sights of the Professional Football League and the government and measures will finally be taken to fight against this scourge which regularly taints the League championship 1 football.
From December 31, 2024, nominative ticketing will be compulsory for Olympique de Marseille, Paris-Saint Germain and Olympique Lyonnais, as announced by the current Minister of Sports Gil Averous via a decree. Named ticketing will be extended to all Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 club clubs.during the year 2025“.
“Our desire is to individualize and sanction those who are at the origin of the remarks and indeed, to*’*avoid collective sanctions wherever possible“, explained the Minister of Sports. “Each spectator in a stadium must have a ticket with a place and their name clearly identified so that we can identify in the stadium where the songs and comments are coming from and so that we can identify those who will be the subject of stadium ban“.
This new protocol will also be an opportunity to detect hooded supporters, who have come to “break up”. “We have camera systems that are very efficient today, so we can once again identify the person where they are.” explains the minister who regrets France’s delay compared to European countries and particularly England.
The minister also demands that France follow through on the FIFA protocol in the event of discriminatory chants by stopping matches as soon as an incident occurs. A few weeks ago, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, for his part, received the leaders of French football to “take the necessary measures to restore order in the stadiums and on the sidelines of matches“.
