Tomer Habaz |
Avi Luzon (Reuven Schwartz)
New regulations from the Ministry of Economy mean that at the Shlomo Insurance Stadium in Petah Tikva, only 8,170 seats for fans are currently approved, instead of the 11,300 seats approved to date – less than 3,130 seats.
The Ministry of Economy has issued new directives as a result of the difficulties in electronically entering stadiums in recent games, following what happened to Teddy and other places. The Ministry of Economy has tightened the licensing and gives each Sabbath entrance up to 550 people who can enter. Therefore, until the solution of the problem, the stadium in Petah Tikva will be able to host up to 8,170 fans in the upcoming game against Maccabi Haifa, while for the benefit of the green crowd, about 6,800 seats will be allocated and they will receive a complete stand.
The rest of the seats will be for the benefit of Maccabi Petah Tikva fans, who do not come en masse to the team games. A source around the stadium told ONE: “It will not hurt Maccabi Petah Tikva because from the day the stadium was built, we do not remember there being one full game on the field. Therefore, there will be no injury, not even in Maccabi Petah Tikva’s game against Maccabi Haifa.
Following the decision, there is a lot of anger at Maccabi Petah Tikva, when the team claimed that in advance they made a uniform price of 60 NIS per ticket for the upcoming game, and were sure that it would be sold out. The club even claimed damage in the amount of NIS 180,000 and that the number of places for Green fans would be 6,400 and not 6,800. Avi Luzon, The group chairman, told ONE: “I have no doubt we would have sold all the tickets, the damage is great. If we had known in advance that this would happen, we would have prepared accordingly. “
Maccabi Petah Tikva also said that contrary to what the development company in Petah Tikva claims, then in the past also in the games against Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the stadium was full to capacity.
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