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How space will help football fans to celebrate sport
UEFA - the Union of European Football Associations and the governing body of football in Europe - will also explore with ESA how to use space data to identify the benefits that hosting a football stadium can bring to its local community. The project aims to combine satellite images with socio-economic data and other information such as weather and irrigation to identify the effects of the presence of a football pitch to the local communities and federations.
How space will help football fans to celebrate sport
by Staff Writers
Paris (ESA) May 09, 2023

Millions of supporters avidly follow football clubs across Europe, from Manchester United to Bayern Munich. Now ESA is partnering with UEFA to use space to help ensure the safety of football fans and the sustainability of the sport - as well as exploring other ways in which space can help promote football.

Almost 75,000 people converge on Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium when it is at capacity, while a similar number of fans follow the action live at Bayern Munich's home ground of the Allianz Arena.

Keeping crowds safe is a long-standing challenge for civil authorities aided by football clubs.

Satellites can help monitor crowds from space and identify when crowds are building up at bottlenecks in the flow of people around football stadiums. When relayed to police forces, this information can enable commanding officers to take informed decisions. Similarly telecommunications satellites can support overloaded terrestrial communications networks when crowds gather to watch matches and navigation satellites can track people in real time.

The partnership, announced at the Spot - a conference dedicated to innovation in sport that is being held on 8 and 9 May in Lausanne, Switzerland - aims to support the introduction of space-based innovation in professional football competitions.

It is part of a wider effort to use space for football fans that will not only use real-time data to keep supporters safe, but also use historical satellite data to support the planning of events.

UEFA - the Union of European Football Associations and the governing body of football in Europe - will also explore with ESA how to use space data to identify the benefits that hosting a football stadium can bring to its local community. The project aims to combine satellite images with socio-economic data and other information such as weather and irrigation to identify the effects of the presence of a football pitch to the local communities and federations.

Importantly, it will also explore how to use space technologies to promote air quality and environmental and economic sustainability around football stadiums.

Andrea Traverso, UEFA director of financial sustainability and research, said: "We are confident that this partnership with ESA will bring incredible value to UEFA. It is a way for us to address some of European football's key strategic challenges by leveraging the expertise, network and resources of an innovative pioneer like ESA and explore joint collaborations in creating relevant and tangible solutions. This partnership also underlines UEFA's ambition to nurture new types of cooperations to adapt ourselves even more rapidly in response to our current and future challenges."

Javier Benedicto, Acting Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at ESA, said: "Keeping European football fans safe as they experience the joy and the heartbreak of the beautiful game is paramount. Importantly, this project will also explore how space data can promote the environmental and economic sustainability of football in Europe to ensure that all fans can enjoy it in the future. I am delighted that ESA's partnership with UEFA will use space to improve life on Earth."

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