Overview
- Arsenal has announced a roughly 9km loop through Islington that will start at 2pm on Sunday and circle the Emirates Stadium with a planned two-hour duration.
- Organisers and the Metropolitan Police expect between 500,000 and up to one million attendees and have redesigned the event to reduce the risk of dangerous crowding.
- All four open-top buses will move continually so there is no single finish point for a trophy lift, and the men’s team, staff, women’s team and community groups will travel on separate buses.
- Local measures include road and pedestrian closures around the stadium, closure of the club shop on parade day, stewarding, first-aid points and warnings that nearby stations may be closed or exit-only.
- The change reverses nearly a century of trophy-lift tradition at a single landmark in order to prioritise safety and to encourage fans to spread along the whole route.