Hearing impaired fans follow modified stadium tour

Hearing impaired fans follow modified stadium tour

On Friday 23 September, the deaf community alongside Club Brugge celebrates the ‘International Day of Sign Language’. September 24 has been ‘World Dove Day’ for years. To celebrate these holidays, Club Brugge Foundation, together with ‘Deaf Club Brugge Fans’, the fan club for the deaf and hard of hearing Club fans, organized an adapted Stadium Tour for the deaf and hard of hearing in the Jan Breydel Stadium.

The ‘Deaf Club Brugge Fans’ fan club aims to make the football experience at Club Brugge accessible to deaf and hard of hearing Club fans. Since its founding in March 2022, this fan club has more than 80 members.

No fewer than 50 deaf and hard-of-hearing fans and their families registered for the fan club’s first official activity. Together they experienced an adapted Stadium Tour, accompanied by a Club Brugge guide supported by a Flemish Sign Language interpreter . In this way they too could absorb the rich history of Club Brugge in a 90 – minute tour full of interesting facts and anecdotes .

All the important places were visited: the Club Museum, the dressing room, players’ home, tunnel, the main field, security tower, the lodge building and much more.

“Club Brugge works enormously on the theme of inclusion and often plays a pioneering role in this thanks to their many projects and events. This adapted stadium tour for people who are deaf or hard of hearing is a good example of this. The fans and their families could enjoy a super interesting stadium tour, but it is also an opportunity to get together with their community and further fraternize over a drink offered by Club Brugge Foundation in the stadium bar.”

Tim Van Landuyt, Deaf Club Brugge Fans.