Iran: the football federation calls for the authorization of the presence of women in the stadiums

Published on : 10/29/2021 – 5:36 PM

Soon spectators in stadiums in Iran? The Iranian football federation has called on parliament to pass a law allowing female spectators to be present in stadiums, its secretary general Hassan Kamrani Far said on Thursday (October 29th).

“A bill has been sent by the Iranian Football Federation to the Islamic National Assembly. Once approved, the presence of women will be allowed,” he announced at a meeting and whose remarks are reported. by the Tasnim agency.

Parliament is largely dominated by ultraconservatives, and religious leaders have so far opposed such a presence.

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Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian women have been denied access to stadiums, officially to protect them from male rudeness.

Fifa has been pressing for years for Iran to open its stadiums to women, but until 2019 Tehran had only allowed a limited number of women (at most a thousand supporters in November) until 2019. 2018) to attend a few meetings.

In October 2019, they were exceptionally able to attend the match, in the Azadi stadium in Tehran, of the Iranian men’s team against Cambodia in the knockout meeting for the 2022 World Cup.

At the beginning of October, the women hoped to find their way back to the stands in Tehran for the qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup against South Korea, but it was finally played behind closed doors without explanation from the federation.

With AFP