All-seater stadium
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All-seater is a terminology applied to sports stadiums in which every spectator must be seated. This is commonplace in football (soccer) stadia in nations such as Germany and United Kingdom.
All-seater stadiums have been compulsory in the English Premiership since the start of the 1994-95 season as a result of the Taylor Report which gave reccommendations to improve stadium safety after the Hillsborough disaster. The initial plan, drawn up in 1990, had reccomended that standing accommodation should be banned from stadiums in the upper two tiers of the league from 1994 onwards, while stadiums in the lower two tiers had until 1999 to meet these requirements. A review of the proposals in 1992 saw non-Premiership clubs retain the option to have standing accommodation. Recently, there have been several calls for Premiership stadiums to be allowed standing accommodation, but these have been rejected.
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[Allwords.com] Accessed 7/29/2005See also
Eurostand 98 - unsuccessful campaign against all-seater stadiums.
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