PREMIER LEAGUE

SECTION K: STADIUM CRITERIA AND BROADCASTERS’ REQUIREMENTS
PREMIER LEAGUE RULES: SECTION K
K.30.
Technical Areas
K.31.
K.32.
K.33.
Sanitary Facilities
K.34.
The Staff and Players occupying the trainers’ benches shall display throughout the game
such identification as is required and provided by the Premier League.
The technical areas shall include the trainers’ benches required by Rule K.29 and shall extend
1 metre either side of each and to within 1 metre of the touchline.
The boundaries of each of the technical areas shall be clearly marked.
No person shall use or have access to a television monitor or like device in or around the
technical areas during League Matches.
Each Club shall provide sufficient bright, clean and hygienic toilet and washing facilities for
male and female spectators in accordance with any local authority requirements and
having regard to guidance issued by the Football Licensing Authority. The Board may
caution any Club which fails to comply with this Rule or exercise its summary jurisdiction
and impose a fine.
Facilities for the Disabled
K.35.
CCTV
K.36.
K.37.
Giant Screens
K.38.
Each Club shall provide sufficient and adequate facilities for disabled supporters.
A Home Club may arrange for any League Match in which its team participates to be relayed by
closed circuit television to other locations within its Stadium.
Except at any time when any live Transmission of any League Match pursuant to a UK
Broadcasting Contract is in progress, a Visiting Club may arrange by agreement with the
Home Club for the closed circuit television signal of a League Match in which it participates
to be relayed to its Stadium only. The written consent of the Board shall be required to relay
the said signal to any other location. In all such circumstances, the Visiting Club shall ensure
that any such relay of any such signal shall be encrypted in such manner as the Board may
from time to time direct.
Except with the prior written consent of the Board, giant screens or the like at a Club’s Stadium
shall not be used to relay to spectators closed circuit pictures of the League Match at which they
are present.
K.39 Any consent given under the provisions of the above Rule shall be subject to the following
conditions:
K.39.1. the screen shall be located so that it does not interfere with the League Match at
which it is used or distract the Players and Match Officials;
K.39.2. it shall be operated by a responsible person who is fully aware of the conditions
governing its use;
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