Egypt’s Sports Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz announced on Tuesday that football stadiums will begin allowing fans to attend matches for ‘Egypt Cup’ games, putting an end to a six-year nationwide ban on stadium attendance for domestic matches. “The ‘Egypt Cup’ quarter-finals will witness the return of the fans to the stands,” Abdel Aziz told a radio station on Tuesday. The event shocked the nation to the core and a ban was enforced on spectator attendance at football games. Three years passed before the ban was lifted, but it was soon re-enforced, after another tragedy saw 20 Zamalek fans killed in 2015, after clashing with the police. While the ban had been fully imposed on domestic matches, it has been loosened for regional and continental games, with authorities allowing a restricted number of fans to attend, due to FIFA regulations.

Source: Egypt Independent February 07, 2018 15:00 UTC