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Written by Jörn Kreuzer

Published: 15 January 2013

FSE is partner in a European research project called FREE.  The FREE Project aims at to contribute to a better understanding of football as a highly relevant social and cultural phenomenon in contemporary Europe. This includes the role of fans in the game as major stakeholder. 

The FREE project partners from Loughborough University are therefore currently looking for participants in a research.

Check it out and take part! 

HERE IS THEIR CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 24 October 2012

Fans across Europe support the FARE Action Weeks

We're the middle of the annual FARE Action Weeks, the biggest campaign against discrimination in the whole of Europe, and the FSE membership is naturally part of it! Alongside football governing bodies, clubs, NGOs, many football fans across the continent are taking a stand with a great variety of actions from 16 Oct - 31 Oct 2012. They are part of more than 1000 projects in 42 countries all over Europe.

This demonstrates once again that there is a majority of football supporters who are actively committed to make their stands a welcoming place for all fans, irrespective of skin colour, abilities, gender, religious beliefs or sexual orientation!

To underline this once again and to give this great commitment an additional platform, we’ve put together a selection of fans’ actions organised by or with participation of our members:

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 19 December 2012

Nikos and Nicole introduce themselves.

For almost one year now, the FSE Coordinating Office has seen two new members of staff supporting the FSE membership and all its entities, working groups and projects with all these little bits and bops and logistics in the background that one usually hardly recognizes but without which, FSE couldn’t work anymore, as a steadily growing organisation.

We now thought that it’s about time to introduce them a little more to all of you who don’t know them already, to make sure you know the faces behind one or the other email or phone call you may receive. :)

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 04 September 2012

Football Fans Against Homophobia to host first network meeting

The first of the SpeakUP! events of FSE in the framework of the ProSupporters project will be a network and coordination meeting of the initiative “Football Fans Against Homophobia” on the 14^th of October in Aachen, Germany, taking place just a couple of days before the start of the FARE Action Weeks.

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 12 December 2012

Things are getting really serious: a paper called "Sicheres Stadionerlebnis" (Safe Stadium Experience) elaborated by the “Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL, German Football League) is due to be voted on at the general meeting of the 36 German professional clubs on 12 December 2012. This summer, the German Home Secretary Hans-Peter Friedrich had urged the German football clubs to make a higher contribution to increase safety and security in stadia. He called for this on the basis of an allegedly increased level of violence in German football. However, this allegation is not underlined by any statistics or other scientific findings.

A first version of the paper was rejected by numerous clubs because they wanted to discuss it with their supporters first. As a result, a second version of the paper was worked out, which now - according to the DFL - should be passed by the clubs who fear that politics will otherwise threaten the autonomy of football. Various politicians had very recently increased the pressure towards the DFL and called for a quick decision and measures to be taken.

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 27 August 2012

The FSE member and national fans association FASFE have launched a campaign on kick-off times to achieve better conditions for fans and families in Spanish football

Some years ago, Spanish football authorities decided on kick-off times for matches and a timetable which are considered unfriendly by many Spanish supporters, especially those with children, with some matches being kicked of as late as 21:30 PM on Sundays or at 21:00 PM on Monday.

Very recently, Spanish football authorities have decided that three matches on the first matchday of the season (on saturday, sunday and monday) and two matches on the second matchday (sarturday and sunday) are due to be kicked off at 23.00hrs plus one more on monday at 22:00 PM.

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Written by Glorious Mess

Published: 07 December 2012

The Committee members of FSE, European’s leading supporters’ organisation, were disappointed by the announcement of UEFA’s decision to hold Euro 2020 in up to 13 different countries all across the continent under the motto “EURO for Europe”.

Just last week, a delegation of FSE representatives gave UEFA representatives feedback from a fans perspective. In the build-up before that meeting FSE gathered the opinions from their wider membership and football supporters beyond that and collected feedback from a cross-section of supporters, to get a representative sample.

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 23 August 2012

Get involved in the FARE Action Weeks Against Discrimination from 16-31 October 2012!

Take a stand and show as football supporters across Europe that you want a football without racism and discrimination and get involved in this year’s FARE Action Weeks under the motto “We are football people”!

Fans’ groups, NGOs, associations and others from more than 40 countries are invited to organize whichever activity they want that can promote an inclusive football for all and/or an opposition towards all those who are working against this.

As FSE members we stand up for the opposition against any form of discrimination of any individuals on any grounds  including the following: ethnic origin, ability, religion and belief, gender, sexual orientation and age. This belief forms an integral part of our core principles.

Discrimination shall have no place anywhere inside or outside our football stadia!

This year, there is also several possibilities for fans’ groups and others to get financial support for their actions during the FARE Action Week 2012:

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 03 December 2012

In the last weeks the first events took place in the framework of the Pro Supporters project, a project set up by FSE and several other European partners and coordinated by FairPlay.

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Written by Daniela Wurbs

Published: 23 August 2012

As FSE, we're hereby documenting the latest news from our members from the Football Supporters Federation (FSF), the national fans' federation from England and Wales, on their important Safe Standing Campaign:

Peterborough United chief executive Bob Symns has given his backing to the Football Supporters’ Federation’s (FSF) Safe Standing Campaign. Symns even offered to use the club’s London Road ground to trial safe standing areas if Parliament and the football authorities would authorise it.

Symns made the announcement before the Posh’s friendly match at home to Aston Villa on Wednesday 1st August 2012. In a neat twist Villa’s chief executive Paul Faulkner is another supporter of safe standing.