Safe standing allowed for 2022/23 season - What can fans expect?

The government has confirmed Premier League and Championship clubs will be allowed to introduce safe standing areas at football stadiums from the start of the 2022/23 season, but what does this mean and what can fans expect?

Brentford, QPR and Wolves will be the first clubs to join Cardiff City, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham, who took part in a trial in the second half of last season, in offering licensed safe standing areas for home and away fans.

Other clubs are expected to bring in safe standing areas during the course of the football season Wembley Stadium will also offer a small licensed safe standing area for fans at domestic matches later in the season.

Here, Sky Sports News' senior reporter Geraint Hughes answers the key questions with licensed safe standing areas set to be rolled out at the start of the forthcoming season...

This is important for a number of reasons.

Firstly, because it has been a pledge by the current government. It's politics and sport mixing which is always interesting but also, it has been on the agenda for some years with many supporters saying the match day experience would be better if fans were able to stand safely.

So, you have that but also you have in everyone's mind the backdrop of events in Hillsborough from 1989 and after that, legislation came in to bring about all-seater stadiums. It was literally just that, stadiums, certainly in the top two divisions, became all-seater with everyone sitting from a safety perspective so that another disaster like Hillsborough would not happen again.

So, the reason why this is so significant is because all the trials, all the data and everything that has been worked through has been with that in mind so that a