England stadiums will allow fans to stand from next season

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Premier League and Championship clubs will be allowed to introduce safe standing areas from the start of next season after a trial run earlier this year was successful, English media reports.

The BBC reports that Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham and Cardiff City were part of a pilot study commissioned by the UK government, and other clubs are expected to follow suit in the new season.

Brentford, Queens Park Rangers and Wolverhampton have already announced that their stands will have standing sections for both home and away fans.


There will be a section without chairs even in the largest stadium in England, Wembley, where the FA Cup and League Cup finals will be played.

The stadiums where the experiment was conducted were selected through an application process and had to meet several rigorous conditions such as the use of cameras, better training of security services and a strict restriction on fans according to the principle of "one person, one space".

The English government banned standing in stadiums in the early 1990s after the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in Sheffield in 1989 in which 97 Liverpool fans died.

"Fans have long campaigned for the return of the standing sections and we have been working closely with supporters' groups, even with the families affected by the tragic disaster at Hillsborough," said Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston.

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