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The FLA


Action at the City of Manchester Stadium

Who are we?

We are an independent public body set up under the Football Spectators Act 1989 and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Mission Statement

Our mission is to ensure that all spectators regardless of age, gender, ethnic origin, disability, or the team that they support are able to attend sports grounds in safety, comfort and security.


Our Statutory Remit

We were originally conceived as the body that would implement the Football Membership Scheme in response to the disaster at the Heysel Stadium in 1985. However, the Government shelved this in the light of Lord Justice Taylor's Final Report on the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster of April 1989.

Instead it charged us with implementing some of the Report's key recommendations by:

  • monitoring local authorities' oversight of spectator safety at international, Premiership and Football League grounds;
  • and ensuring through a system of licensing that these grounds became all seated.

In 1992 the Government decided to allow clubs in the Football League Second and Third Divisions to retain some standing accommodation, provided that this satisfied certain criteria. We enforce this through our licences.

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