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What the government’s announcement means for English football as regions discover lockdown fate

What stadiums fall into which tier as regions discover lockdown fate? The government has announced the new tiers on Thursday.

Boris Johnson introduced a new tier system with stadiums in Tier 1 and Tier 2 areas set to welcome back up to 4,000 fans after a nationwide lockdown.

Premier League clubs are yet to decide on ticket allocation, with Everton and Man City to employ fan ballots for season ticket holders.

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The system will be regularly reviewed and an area’s tier level may change before Christmas – the first review is scheduled for the 16th of December.

Supporters are expected to adhere to a new code of conduct, with a final decision yet to be made over fans singing, shouting or buying alcohol inside stadia, although the FSA (Football Supporters Association) claim that this is false.

Before the start of the second nationwide lockdown on the 5th of November, areas in Tier 3 included parts of Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, Cheshire and Nottinghamshire, while areas in Tier 2 included parts of Greater London, the Midlands, West Yorkshire, Essex, Leicestershire, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, among others.

Decisions on tiers are based on public health recommendations informed by the following:

  • Case detection rate – in all age groups and, in particular, the over-60s
  • How quickly case rates are rising or falling
  • Positivity in the general population
  • Pressure on the NHS – including current and projected NHS capacity
  • Local context and exceptional circumstances, such as a local but contained outbreak

So what stadiums fall into which tier as regions discover lockdown changes via Matt Hancock? Take a look below…

Full list of Tier 1
Isle of Wight
Cornwall
Isles of Scilly

Full list of Tier 2
Cumbria
Liverpool City Region
Warrington and Cheshire
York
North Yorkshire
Worcestershire
Herefordshire
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
Rutland
Northamptonshire
Suffolk
Hertfordshire
Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
Norfolk
Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
East Sussex
West Sussex
Brighton and Hove
Surrey
Reading
Wokingham
Bracknell Forest
Windsor and Maidenhead
West Berkshire
Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
Buckinghamshire
Oxfordshire
South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
Bath and North East Somerset
Dorset
Bournemouth
Christchurch
Poole
Gloucestershire
Wiltshire and Swindon
Devon

Full list of Tier 3
Tees Valley Combined Authority:
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Stockton-on-Tees
Redcar and Cleveland
Darlington
Sunderland
South Tyneside
Gateshead
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
County Durham
Northumberland
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Blackpool
Blackburn with Darwen
The Humber
West Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
Birmingham and Black Country
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
Derby and Derbyshire
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Leicester and Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)
Kent and Medway
Bristol
South Gloucestershire
North Somerset

The Top 10 areas with worst infection rates

All rates per 100,000

Swale – 539.7
Hull – 529.3,
Thanet – 491.8
East Lindsey – 470.6
Stoke-on-Trent – 453.6
Dudley – 452.1
Boston – 438.9
Sandwell – 435.7
Hyndburn – 435.6
Kirklees – 430.7

To find out the tier for you post code – click HERE or simply click play and start from the beginning on the live announcement video below…

Brighton chief executive Paul Barber welcomed the news that fans could return to grounds but says the numbers of people attending matches needs to go up as soon as it is safe to do so.

“We have been preparing for fans to return to 25 per cent of our capacity,” he told Sky Sports. “Which would be around 7-8,000 supporters rather than the 2,000 or 4,000 we might get in the short term.

“At those sort of levels it is more viable for us so the aim is to scale up to those sort of levels as quickly and as safely as we can.

“If we can do that it returns football to a much more viable position than we have been in for some time. We need to prove to Government that we can do it safely and expand those numbers sooner rather than later.”

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