The government has confirmed Premier League and Championship clubs will be allowed to introduce safe standing areas at football stadiums from the start of the 2022/23 season, but what does this mean and what can fans expect?
Brentford, QPR and Wolves will be the first clubs to join Cardiff City, Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham, who took part in a trial in the second half of last season, in offering licensed safe standing areas for home and away fans.
Other clubs are expected to bring in safe standing areas during the course of the football season Wembley Stadium will also offer a small licensed safe standing area for fans at domestic matches later in the season.
Here, Sky Sports News' senior reporter Geraint Hughes answers the key questions with licensed safe standing areas set to be rolled out at the start of the forthcoming season...
Why is this such an important announcement?
This is important for a number of reasons.
Firstly, because it has been a pledge by the current government. It's politics and sport mixing which is always interesting but also, it has been on the agenda for some years with many supporters saying the match day experience would be better if fans were able to stand safely.
So, you have that but also you have in everyone's mind the backdrop of events in Hillsborough from 1989 and after that, legislation came in to bring about all-seater stadiums. It was literally just that, stadiums, certainly in the top two divisions, became all-seater with everyone sitting from a safety perspective so that another disaster like Hillsborough would not happen again.
So, the reason why this is so significant is because all the trials, all the data and everything that has been worked through has been with that in mind so that a scenario like Hillsborough can never happen again, and where they are pointing out a huge difference is that you are not going back to the old days of terracing.
It is one space, one person and there is effectively still a seat in that area. For the majority of grounds, it won't be rail seating, but it will be a seating area where the seats can go up and there is a rail in front where you can stand.
With the data they have crunched over the last six months, five clubs took part in a trial - the two Manchester clubs, Chelsea, Tottenham and Cardiff City - they believe this is now safe to roll out. They have done a few tweaks, but they now believe this is safe to start implementing at other Premier League, Championship clubs, and any club actually who has been in either the Premier League or the Championship for three years since the mid-nineties.
So, in total around 63 clubs are eligible to apply if they want safe standing areas.