{"id":26969,"date":"2026-03-14T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/aston-villa-v-maccabi-tel-aviv-why-cant-away-fans-attend-bbc-sport\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:13:58","slug":"aston-villa-v-maccabi-tel-aviv-why-cant-away-fans-attend-bbc-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/aston-villa-v-maccabi-tel-aviv-why-cant-away-fans-attend-bbc-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv: Why Can\u2019t Away Fans Attend? | BBC Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quWKVwTBiIc?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>One night of football has sparked weeks of debate and outrage. <\/p>\n<p>No Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will be allowed to attend their Europa league match away to Aston Villa. <\/p>\n<p>The game had been classed as \u201chigh risk\u201d by West Midlands Police, with Birmingham\u2019s Safety Advisory Group taking the decision to block fans from the Israeli club from attending.<\/p>\n<p>That decision was called a \u2018national disgrace\u2019 and \u2018wrong\u2019 by politicians. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are asking, why us? <\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport explains how we got to this point and what is behind the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Follow more on the BBC Sport app and iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:42 How did we get here?<br \/>\n00:52 The police<br \/>\n01:18 One of the most politically charged fixtures<br \/>\n03:38 Politicians step in<br \/>\n05:50 The fan perspective<br \/>\n06:55 Why this could be the most political match of the century<br \/>\n07:46 Closing thoughts<\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE so you never miss out on our best videos<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f\u27a1\ufe0fhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1sFodyu <\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>Find us here: <\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCSport\/<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSport<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcsport\/<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bbcsport<\/p>\n<p>#bbcsport #europaleague #astonvilla #maccabitelaviv #football #explained<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quWKVwTBiIc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night of football has sparked weeks of debate and outrage. No Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will be allowed to attend their Europa league match away to Aston Villa. The game had been classed as \u201chigh risk\u201d by West Midlands Police, with Birmingham\u2019s Safety Advisory Group taking the decision to block fans from the Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26971,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26969\/revisions\/26971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}