SPL ‘encouraged’ by Friday night pilot
The Scottish Premier League has vowed to explore further the idea of Friday night football.
The SPL moved Aberdeen’s home game against Dunfermline to a Friday night last month as a pilot exercise and were encouraged by the results, although Pars fans were not as impressed as their rivals.
After 1,200 Aberdeen and Dunfermline fans responded to a survery, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster has now asked supporters of all clubs to have their say. Writing in his blog on the SPL website, Doncaster said: “In the end, 8,333 fans attended the game – 661 more than had turned up to Aberdeen’s previous Saturday 3pm home game, against Kilmarnock.
“Coming as it did on the back of Aberdeen’s defeat to East Fife in the Scottish Communities League Cup, that attendance figure was an extremely encouraging start to the pilot.”