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<\/p>\nEngland Football fans have been warned about travelling to Serbia ahead of the national team’s upcoming fixture in Belgrade.<\/p>\n
The England men’s team will be playing against Serbia on Tuesday, September 9, as part of the World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n
The national team are top of the group, having won all three games played as they look to qualify for the 2026 World Cup in the United States.<\/p>\n
As part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) foreign travel advice for Serbia, fans travelling have been referred to the England Football website.<\/p>\n
England Football has put out an “important notice” after Serbia was sanctioned by FIFA.<\/p>\n
“FIFA has sanctioned Serbia with a partial stadium closure for this fixture following racist behaviour by some of their fans in a previous match,” the website indicated.<\/p>\n
“Meaning parts of the ground will be closed off to Serbian supporters.”<\/p>\n
England Football has reminded fans to be aware of any potential abuse.<\/p>\n
England flags hanging on a bridge in Belgrade ahead of the game next Tuesday<\/p>\n
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“In light of this, we felt it important to remind you of the following procedure should you experience racist or discriminatory language or behaviour at any England fixture,” the national team stated.<\/p>\n
“FA stewards will be visible in and around the away end.<\/p>\n
“We would encourage you to find one and report it to them in the first instance.”<\/p>\n
The national team told fans they could also text “+447790371105” for immediate help or advice.<\/p>\n
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Section of the stadium in Belgrade where the England fans will be sitting<\/p>\n
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“Every report is taken seriously and any information you give us will form part of the post-match reports we send to all relevant stakeholders,” England Football wrote.<\/p>\n
“We always work closely with local authorities and the British Embassy to help make matches as safe as possible.”<\/p>\n
The FCDO told fans that “no travel can be guaranteed safe”.<\/p>\n
It asked those to check advice before travelling, including general advice for female travellers, a guide for disability and travel abroad, general advice for LGBT+ travellers, safety for solo and independent travel and advice on volunteering and adventure travel abroad.<\/p>\n
Those who are travelling have been told to “research your destinations and get appropriate travel insurance”.<\/p>\n
“Insurance should cover your itinerary, planned activities and expenses in an emergency,” the FCDO has indicated.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the match with Serbia, England will face Andorra at 5pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
England is top of the group with Albania in second, Serbia in third and Latvia in fourth.<\/p>\n
Andorra sit bottom with zero points after four games played.<\/p>\n
The match with Andorra will be played in Birmingham at Villa Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England Football fans have been warned about travelling to Serbia ahead of the national team’s upcoming fixture in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-401024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153923292275472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}