Initiative of the Big Six in the Premier League: Changing the Penal Code | Israel today

The six big teams are tired of the penalties for closing the stands and the heavy fines imposed on the clubs.

Thus, an initiative is being formed to change the rules and the tools of punishment, so that at least in the Premier League games, plays of empty stands, which cause financial losses of hundreds of thousands of shekels a year and the exclusion of the audience, will no longer be part of the landscape.

In the first phase, these are Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Betar Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hapoel B'Shlosha and Maccabi Netanya, but it is estimated that all Premier League teams will join the move.

A source close to the matter told Israel Today: "It is not possible for the groups to secure, pay, catch criminals, sue fans, locate rioters, bring them before the courts, and then the court arrives and punishes them with delusional punishments because that is what appears in its bylaws. If this is the rules, it should be changed and preferably before next season. "

It is important to note that in the course of evolving, the groups will present a different punishment mechanism.

It is not clear how they will manage to get things done in the management of the association, which in turn brings into the coffers several million shekels a year from fines that it imposes on the clubs, especially towards the big ones in the Premier League.

The clubs are expected to explain that the change in punishment at the level of legislation in the Knesset will change next season, as the Sports Law to impose administrative fines and expel rioters for extended periods has passed the Ministerial Committee on Legislation and is expected to be approved.

Hapoel Tel Aviv fans in the derby. It's time for a change,

Fans who are caught violating the order or lighting flares, will be fined automatically by the police in the amount of NIS 5,000 and will be expelled for a long period.

The big clubs, which already today locate those fans and bring them on a tray to the police, make it clear that there is no reason for them to close stands after they do so much to eradicate and deal with violence. 

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