The KNVB and the national government have expanded the pilot to combat racist and discriminatory chants with the help of smart technology with the clubs ADO Den Haag and FC Utrecht. Last summer, the pilot started in the stadiums of Feyenoord, PEC Zwolle and PSV.
The aim of the project at ADO Den Haag and FC Utrecht, which will run until the end of this year, is to provide audiovisual material with which perpetrators can be recognized more quickly. The basis of the solution was developed more than ten years ago together with TNO and applied in the stadium of ADO Den Haag. The technology is now being further developed in terms of quality and user-friendliness and is expected to be easier to use in other stadiums.
The pilot is part of ‘Our Football Is Van Everyone’, the plan of the government, KNVB, Eredivisie and Kitchen Champion Division to tackle racism and discrimination in football. The project was set up after the racist treatment at the end of 2019 by FC Den Bosch supporters of former Excelsior player Ahmad Mendes Moreira. At the time it turned out to be impossible to punish all perpetrators in Den Bosch due to a lack of evidence, because it was difficult to determine who had shouted punishable things.
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