Following the action plan presented by the Madrid autonomous administration government, the Spanish Football Federation, and the measures proposed by the General Directorate of Public Health, the Madrid-autonomous government approved the participation of approximately 23,000 spectators to the Spanish-Portugal friendly match to be played at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium on June 4.
The 22,590 people, which will be taken in 30 percent of the total capacity of Wanda Metropolitano, which is the stadium of Atletico Madrid club, will be a first in Spain during the pandemic period as the match with the highest number of spectators.
Due to the new type of corona virus (Covid-19) epidemic, matches have been played without an audience in Spain since March 2020.
With the decrease in the number of cases in the country, in the last two weeks of the season in the 1st and 2nd football leagues, in the play-off competitions and the remaining matches of the 1st basketball league, only in certain regions (7 of the 17 autonomous methods) with a maximum capacity of 5 thousand people and the obligation to wear a mask. the audience had begun to be taken.
The last spectator match in Madrid, which has been excluded from this practice until now due to the intensity of the epidemic, was held between Getafe and Celta teams on March 7, 2020.
In the European Football Championship, La Cartuja stadium in Seville, which will host the Spain-Sweden (14 June), Spain-Poland (19 June) and Spain-Slovakia (23 June) matches, which will be played in group E, has a maximum of 16 thousand (25 percent capacity). audience will be taken.
