A fireworks display at the stadium before the Viking–Sabah match was marred by an alarming incident.
Fanat.az reports, citing NRK, that one of the fireworks veered off course and landed on the pitch, setting the artificial turf alight.
Although stadium staff quickly extinguished the flames, the club's management said it would investigate the safety incident.
Viking chief executive Erik Bjørnø admitted that safety measures “could have been better” and said the incident would be analysed in depth on Thursday morning. Pyrotechnics specialist Andreas Helle, meanwhile, stressed that the fire may have been caused by an unexpected product malfunction rather than operator error.
Kamil Khudiyev
This article was translated from Azerbaijani with the help of AI. Original in Azerbaijani
