Since the European Football Fans Congress 2015 (Belfast) and the decision from the FSE membership to hold the #EFFC and FSE’s general meeting every 2 years, members of Football Supporters Europe are gathering every other year for an event organised by the membership and supported by FSE. The first Summer Network Meeting took place in July 2016 in Izmir (Turkey) and was hosted by our friends
Football Supporters Europe (FSE) monitors a worrying trend prohibiting more and more fans from following their teams abroad during European club competitions. Much to FSE´s disappointment, stadium closures and away travel bans are still widely used forms of collective punishment in European football, whether at UEFA or domestic level. (more…)
Football Supporters Europe (FSE) launched their survey on away fans’ experiences in the European club competitions. As agreed during the last European Football Fans Congress (#EFFC2017) in Belgium, the survey on fan issues at Champions League and Europa League matches marks the first step in FSE’s efforts to reach minimum standards for European football supporters following their teams
The Netherlands will see the first protest of all Dutch supporters associations when Feyenoord Rotterdam and Vitesse Arnhem compete for the Johan Cruijff Schaal (Dutch Supercup) on 5 August. The campaign against the new format of the Supercup was launched by Vitesse Arnhem supporters and is backed by fans from all over the country who are organized in our membership association Supporterscollectie
From 6 to 9 July 2017, more than 300 fans from all over Europe joined Football Supporters Europe’s (FSE) European Football Fans Congress in Gent and Lokeren in order to set tracks for their future work. With the input from FSE members and the local organising team, a broad-ranged #EFFC2017 programme took place, allowing exchanges between supporters and other football stakeholders on the most
Last Monday (3rd of July 2017) UEFA published a report regarding the safety of using pyrotechnics inside football stadiums. In 2016 Football Supporters Europe accepted an invitation from UEFA to take part in a working group on pyrotechnics. We regarded this involvement of a voice for football supporters as a welcome improvement on the previous practice of these discussions taking place over our he