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SSA Blog: It's coming home

Good news for England football fans dreaming of being in the stadium to witness ‘football coming home’. After recent success with a raft of pilot schemes, the UK Government has announced an increase in the number of fans able to attend Euro 2020 matches at Wembley. The increase means the home of English football will, from the knockout stages onward, allow attendances of up to 45,000 fans, equal 50% of capacity.

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SSA Blog: The fans are back, again...

As restrictions associated with the Covid-19 pandemic ease further in the UK, football fans will once again be allowed into stadiums for the final few games of the season. The new regulations, announced by the government, will see only home fans allowed to attend and limits of up to either 25% capacity of the stadium or 10,000 people, whichever is the smaller.

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SSA Blog: The fans are back

With the ending of the UK’s month-long autumn COVID-19 national lockdown, the government has moved to continue its tentative steps back towards normality by allowing crowds to return to sporting fixtures. Inevitably, the focus has fallen on football with clubs in tiers 1 and 2 areas allowed to welcome 4,000 and 2,000 fans respectively.

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