Government lifts crowd capacity restrictions at sports venues
"The occupation of seating may be in accordance with the total licensed capacity of the venue," reads the guidance on indoor and outdoor sporting events released today by the health authorities.
Sports venues will no longer have crowd restrictions, according to the health authority (DGS) update on Thursday, which maintains the requirement for a Covid-19 vaccination certificate and the use of masks.
“The occupation of seating may be in accordance with the total licensed capacity of the venue,” reads the guidance on indoor and outdoor sporting events released today by the health authorities.
After competitions resumed without spectators, sports venues were allowed to accommodate a third of the capacity on June 14 and half on August 26 – the date of the last update of DGS guidance 009/2021.
Last Friday, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) asked the DGS to lift the limitations on the capacity of sports venues, with effect from October.
A day later, on Saturday, the president of the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), Pedro Proença, said he believed stadiums could be without capacity limitation from Friday, October 1, after the announcement of a new phase of deconfinement by the government.
