The dress code was not displayed at the entrance but it implied that spectators should come dressed.
The poster for the final of the Swiss women's football championship pitted FC Zürich against Servette FC Chênois on Monday at the Tuilière stadium in Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva.
Two thousand six hundred people attended the meeting, and among them, topless Zurich supporters.
Alongside them, many men from the Zurich kop were also shirtless.
According to the local press, the stewards intervened to ask everyone to get dressed, men and women, in order to "respect decorum".
Sébastien Kraft, the stadium's security manager, assures in the 20-minute columns that he had never had to manage such a situation before.
But he denies having targeted only naked spectators.
“We would have acted the same way if there had only been men,” he explains.
The atmosphere was calmer than during men's matches, which allowed us to ask people to get dressed.
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Questioned by the Swiss daily Blick, two of the supporters concerned sweep away these arguments by believing that they have been victims of discrimination: “It is false, the agents targeted us.
The other supporters also put on their shirts in solidarity.
Our male colleagues can remove their t-shirts without any problem.
We were told that we were disturbing because there were children.
It is a scandal!
My nipples are nothing sexual.
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Ernsthaft?
Um Anstand zu wahren und wegen Kindern im Stadion müssen Frauen ihre Trikots anziehen.
Hatte nicht den Eindruck dass diese #Brüste interessiert o.
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Wirbel am Final um freizügige #FCZ-Fans: Security stoppt Oben-Ohne-Anhänger!https://t.co/6QPQrMDk1i
— Corine Turrini Flury (@CtfCrea) June 7, 2022
Despite this controversy, the match took place normally on the ground.
And it was FC Zürich who won after a suspenseful meeting, concluded on penalties, in front of covered spectators.
