{"id":753068,"date":"2026-06-22T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753068\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:54:12","slug":"wsl-clubs-to-provide-alcohol-at-games-following-successful-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753068\/","title":{"rendered":"WSL clubs to provide alcohol at games following successful trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All Women&#8217;s Super League clubs can offer alcohol to supporters in the stands from the start of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rule preventing the consumption of alcohol in view of the pitch has been removed by the league&#8217;s governing company, WSL Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows two seasons of successful alcohol trials in the WSL and WSL 2 and received the shareholders&#8217; approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the 2025-26 season, 20 clubs took part in the trials at 29 venues and across 190 fixtures in England&#8217;s top two tiers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clubs do not need to supply alcohol if they do not want to and can choose whether to provide it at some of their playing venues and not at others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Everton and promoted Charlton Athletic confirmed on Monday they would continue to supply alcohol at games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sporting Events Control of Alcohol Act prevents drinking alcohol when facing the pitch at men&#8217;s football matches at professional level in England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Women&#8217;s Super League clubs can offer alcohol to supporters in the stands from the start of next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-753068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}