PM Mitsotakis: Football club fan associations will close

PM Mitsotakis: Football club fan associations will close

Politics 16 August 2023 15:05

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in statements on Wednesday, announced that the associations of organised team supporters will close and only one official association will remain open for each team and operate at each football club's headquarters. Mitsotakis was speaking after the conclusion of a broad meeting at the Maximos Mansion with the participation of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, ministers and the owners of the football clubs Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, AEK and PAOK. CE Report quoting Athens-Macedonian
"The fan clubs will close. Every team will have only one, housed at the team's headquarters," clarified Mitsotakis. He also announced that the entrance through the stadium gates used by organised fans will now come under the jurisdiction of the police, who will be empowered to carry out checks at the gates when it's deemed necessary.

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