Wolves have been granted licensed safe standing sections at Molineux by Sports Ground Safety Authority.
This new license awarded by Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) means that Wolves will be allowed to permit legal standing at home matches for the first time since 1993, following a change to all-seater stadiums in light of 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
Wolves had previously installed barrier seating in 2019 with support of SGSA and have now added 585 barrier seats in the lower section of the Steve Bull Stand, which meant that they now met the license requirements concerning licensed standing for both home and away supporters.
Wolves therefore now has a total capacity of 8,253 licensed standing seats across the stadium, consisting of;
- 5,553 seats in Sir Jack Hayward Stand
- 2,115 seats in Stan Cullis Stand
- 585 seats in Steve Bull Lowe Stand
Wolves’ facilities, safety and security director, Steve Sutton commented that the club “are absolutely delighted” to have been granted the license following “many, many years of hard work by a number of people.”
Sutton also iterated that feedback from fans had played an important role, as he continued: “We have listened to feedback from our fans and played an active role in supporting the process, including taking part in the research, that has led to this historic change in policy.”
Wolves have also introduced new measures as part of the licensed safe standing with ground regulations updated to reflect the inclusion of standing areas, complete with a code of conduct for any supporter who purchases a ticket in the sections containing safe standing.
Tickets will also contain safe standing messages within the ticket’s design and season-ticket holders will be made aware of the new code of conduct.
Wolves also warned that there will be ‘additional scrutiny from authorities’ in concern to ‘persistent standing’ in seated sections of Molineux, meaning that there will be ‘a management plan’ in place to prevent ‘persistent standing’ without any ‘mitigating measures.’
In event of fans failing ‘to adhere to this plan’ aimed at managing and controlling ‘persistent standing’, Wolves have iterated that authorities will take ‘enforcement action’ with possibility of seats made unavailable for future matches.
Wolves have also urged supporters who prefer to engage in persistent standing to contact their Fan Services via fanservices@wolves.co.uk to discuss various options to ensure that they can help the club adhere to the management plan in seated sections.
Wolves’ first home match since being granted the license will take place on Saturday 4 March against Tottenham Hiotspur, with kick-off at 3pm GMT.
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