Soon in all stadiums in the country.
The stands in Ekaterinburg are empty
When the Ural played well, then for home games RPL collected 18-20 thousand people, decent support. The stadium allowed the city team to love. Even at the height of the coronavirus, when thousands of people died in hospitals, around 6,000 people came to the stands. Only the restrictions caused a temporary drop in attendance, but these statistics are irrelevant to the current situation.
2,997 people managed to get to the match against Krasnodar in Yekaterinburg. Even in the fierce winter, they used to gather a large audience. Many fans complain that the State Services do not want to record their applications. There are problems with the face identification system. You have to make an appointment, physically go to draw up the documents. In the summer, the holidays will prevent it, in the autumn: laziness, work and study.
Attendance RPL dropped critically. People from Yekaterinburg complain that the QR code didn’t work. Additional documents were issued, but they were not allowed to use the service for which the person himself paid. This is the first home game of the Ural season, but few have seen it. If there are such problems in Yekaterinburg, it is scary to imagine what will happen in Moscow.
When two crowds of fans before the derby find themselves in huge lines at the turnstiles, as the additional passes won’t work and everyone will run to the stewards for help, conflicts are not far off. At least with confidence. Let’s remember the story with the “soldiers” and the police. And one more thing is important: in Yekaterinburg, security was more concerned about the QR code than the ticket. Stewards will never check 50,000 documents by hand.
Will it become easier to enter the stadium with someone else’s Fan ID? For example, a bearded white man. After listening to the indignant fans who ended up in the test group, it remains to shrug. The law was prepared for a long time, it was postponed and the procedure for issuing season tickets in addition to the existing ones – the ticket for the match perfectly fulfilled its functions, it is a mockery of the fans, of which there are so few .
The ultras do not give up on the protests
What sense does it make if others turn out to be organized fans from personal experience? In the future, you can come to Moscow every five years to watch your favorite Spartak match, have a ticket in hand, but there will be problems with the fan ID – you won’t get to the match. For example, you are accidentally blacklisted. It is also possible to expel absolutely any person from the arena indefinitely without considering the case, and here the legality is in question.
Enough not to give permission. If you’ve seen chaos in Yekaterinburg, where you need up to 20,000 season tickets, what can you expect in Moscow or St. Petersburg? While the system is RPL launched only in Rostov-on-Don, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Sochi and Nizhny Novgorod. There will be an attendance crisis everywhere. And “Rostov” itself directly depends on the support of the public. If we see an empty stadium against tough Khimki tomorrow, then Karpin will be closer to defeat.
Definitely not enough money and fans. Many fans from the central stands refuse to issue a FanID as a sign of solidarity with the ultras. Lawmakers for many months did not explain what the system meant. The funny “we decided – we must execute” topic has become a meme. Failed communication, those who would have spent 773 million rubles alone in the first stage of the implementation of the system did not have arguments. They didn’t look for them.
People didn’t like the idea of Fan ID
Stories about a new word safely will make you laugh. It was possible to enter Yekaterinburg with someone else’s code. The “for” Fan IDs are strictly people I wouldn’t want to sit with in the same industry. rare in RPL it happens like this unequivocal reaction for a fundamental decision. Yes, no club thrives on money on match days. Fans make a feasible contribution, but as a percentage, to the club’s budget.
But they bring as much as possible. It is not strictly about rubles, but also about the culture of lively support for sports. An empty arena is not only boring, but also dangerous. Level RPL without the Champions Cup carrots it will change, and getting people back to the stands is more difficult than getting them out of there. The authors of the law themselves understand this, so they postponed the implementation in Moscow or St. Petersburg for the future. The case in which the decision was made, during the popular debate and now in practice, they realized that it made no sense.
Modern forms of people tracking allow you to find any intruder. Yes, and there really weren’t any. Truly egregious cases, such as game stoppages or mass fan fights, are a thing of the past. Personal work with the ultras has been going on for decades, even after the cars burned in Moscow after the Asian tour of the national team world Cup-2002. Organized fans smuggled into pyrotechnic arenas, but the problem was not the passes, but the guards who passed the boxes of rockets.
And so the stands in many places, such as in Kazan, were empty. And the delights of bureaucracy have been added, the applications do not work, they do not accept the code, you have to go to physically release the pass. The point is obvious. In Rostov-on-Don they could collect a full house and at best they will score 5-7 thousand in the opening game of the season. Another entourage, a different mood of the Karpin team. Again, play in empty arenas, like in the coronavirus. In Samara they only charge 8 rubles for a football ticket, because otherwise people won’t come.
It would be better to build football fields
Free pass promotions are one-time use and harm clubs. Russian football is already troubled and now they have decided to finish it. Imagine what the updated cup will look like if in a Spartak level duel against Dynamo or CSKA they will see empty fan sections and half-empty central stands. will kill interesting idea in the bud, e RPL already suffering from the loss of vital interests.
In the end, it’s just unsportsmanlike. “Zenith”, CSKA and “Spartak” without Fan ID and “Rostov” with restrictions. Have “Wings of the Soviet” and “Rostov” decided to eliminate dangerous guest rivals from the list? “Sochi” is also beaten. “Fisht” was almost empty, now the attendance will be multiplied by zero. Where it was bad, they did it even worse, and where it was tolerable or good, they will go back decades. Loss of money and state money, conflicts with fans, dissatisfaction of thousands of spectators.
Even as a repressive tool, the system is empty. By court order, any fan can be removed from the stands. Appeals don’t work, checked. But 773 million rubles will be spent. former boss RPL Khachaturyants honestly said he didn’t know why such a budget was needed, ordinary officials would spend the money. For hundreds of millions, 400-500 ideal children’s football pitches can be built turnkey. But they don’t want to create, they prefer to destroy and devastate.
