Dutch league to allow some fans to return in September
4 years, 5 months ago

Dutch league to allow some fans to return in September

The Hindu  

League football in the Netherlands will resume in September with 15 to 35 percent of the stadium available for spectators but with no away supporters allowed, the Dutch football association said on Thursday. READ: Japanese football and baseball to start allowing fans at games The good news, however, is that playing with a limited audience is a first step towards playing with packed stadiums. Dutch football was shut down due to the COVID-19 crisis in March with football initially banned until September but this was lifted last month by the government. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced a ban on singing or chanting by fans at the end of last month, yet mayors of various Dutch cities have warned it would be difficult to enforce.

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Officials to crack down on homophobic slurs in Dutch league
1 year, 5 months ago

Officials to crack down on homophobic slurs in Dutch league

The Hindu  

League matches in the Netherlands will be stopped next season if fans repeatedly engage in homophobic chants, the Royal Dutch Football Association said on Monday. From the start of the 2023/24 domestic campaign, stadium announcers will warn offending fans on two occasions to refrain from the offensive chants, after which the match will be temporarily halted if they continue. In …

Netherlands to abandon games if players, referees struck by objects after Feyenoord-Ajax violence
1 year, 8 months ago

Netherlands to abandon games if players, referees struck by objects after Feyenoord-Ajax violence

Firstpost  

The referee stopped the game in the 63rd minute for almost half an hour after a lighter thrown from the stands hit Klaassen, who was left with a bleeding head wound. pic.twitter.com/hxPLrL8rl7 — ESPN FC April 5, 2023 The Dutch Football Federation announced later on Thursday measures to prevent such an “outrageous” incident from happening again. “We are fed up …

Dutch gov’t orders partial lockdown amid COVID surge
3 years, 1 month ago

Dutch gov’t orders partial lockdown amid COVID surge

Al Jazeera  

Caretaker PM says government wants to ‘deliver a hard blow to the virus’ as COVID-19 cases surge in the Netherlands. Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced a three-week partial lockdown amid surging COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands, saying his government wants to “deliver a hard blow to the virus”. Speaking about the deteriorating situation in Europe at a …

Dutch football season to wrap up with no crowds, No party for Ajax
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch football season to wrap up with no crowds, No party for Ajax

NL Times  

The final games in the Eredivisie, the top Dutch football league, will be played through May 16 without spectators. Dutch football association KNVB previously urged the government to allow fans to attend the remaining rounds of league play by extending the pilot project which recently permitted football stadiums to welcome fans on a limited basis, NOS reported. In the previous …

Dutch football league urges government to allow fans at more games
3 years, 7 months ago

Dutch football league urges government to allow fans at more games

NL Times  

Dutch football association KNVB has called upon the government to allow spectators to attend the remaining four rounds of the top Dutch football league, Eredivisie, by extending the pilot project which recently allowed football stadiums to welcome fans on a limited basis, NOS reported. Last weekend, spectators who provided a negative Covid-19 test were allowed to attend certain games again …

Football: Dutch fans snap up tickets in 30 minutes for World Cup experiment
3 years, 9 months ago

Football: Dutch fans snap up tickets in 30 minutes for World Cup experiment

The Hindu  

Dutch fans took just half an hour to snap up all the tickets for the 2022 World Cup qualifier against Latvia this month after the Netherlands allowed 5,000 spectators to attend the match as part of a study that could help get fans back into games quicker. The Dutch football association said it was delighted at the response to the …

Dutch football reluctantly accepts ban on spectators
4 years, 2 months ago

Dutch football reluctantly accepts ban on spectators

The Hindu  

Dutch football reluctantly accepted Monday’s decision by the government to ban spectators from all sporting events to slow a second wave of novel coronavirus infections. But a testy statement from the Dutch FA said there was no scientific evidence that linked crowds in stadiums with the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country. Limited numbers of fans …

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