# fanzone
## English
### Alternative forms

* fan zone

### Etymology

From fan +‎ zone: Originally a capitalized brand name for an official version of the sports venue and for the website.

### Noun

fanzone (plural fanzones)
* (sports) A website that allows fans to chat, post commentary, link to feeds of games, etc, as well as the option to view fan commentary from such a site.
** 2011, Linda E. Swayne, Mark Dodds, Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, page 976:The site is now highly interactive and features a “fanzone” page with arcade-like games, fan bulletin board and chat rooms, social media links to content on Facebook and Twitter, RSS feeds, video and audio archives, […]
** 2016, Geoff Ward, Peter J. Anderson, The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, page 161:Each football game was covered by ten cameras and was supplemented by such innovations as instant highlights of a game in progress, the player-cam, the fanzone commentary, the clean feed without commentary and, for the Ryder Cup, the option of the American commentary.
** 2016, M. Milne, The Transformation of Television Sport: New Methods, New Rules, page 70:A fanzone format includes fan access with contributors via Skype, in addition to the usual methods, such as SMS text, email, and Twitter.
** 2016, Rob Conkie, Writing Performative Shakespeares, page 69:On the football (soccer) pitch these include: regular viewing angle; bird's-eye view; goal-to-goal; 'player-cam'; highlights reel; and 'fanzone'.
** 2019, Andrew Murray, Information Technology Law: The Law and Society, page 272:The fanzone allows users to post content including videos, text, audio files, and photographs to extra Time servers based in London to be shared among other fans of sporting clubs,
* (sports) A venue created for fans of a team, including large screens for watching the game, team-oriented merchandise, and, optionally, other attractions and activities.
** 2009, International Review for the Sociology of Sport - Volume 44, page 381:Zenit St Petersburg won the match but the major news story came from Rangers supporters' behaviour in a 'fanzone' erected at Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens.
** 2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport:Then we resumed watching it on big screens again, even bigger screens, in parks and fanzones, even in our team's home stadium when they were playing somewhere far away.
** 2018, David Kilpatrick, The State of the Field: Ideologies, Identities and Initiatives:It also included attending eight World Cup games, including the Japan–US final, and watching most of the rest in large public fanzones.
** 2021, Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Face to Face: Enduring Rivalries in World Soccer:Some of the fighting even sparked off back in downtown Warsaw in the Plac Defilad, where tournament organizers had constructed a fanzone which saw both Russians and Poles conversing and drinking sideby-side peacefully throughout the day.
* (by extension) A similar venue or website for fans of a performer or band.
** 2008, Scott Wilson, Great Satan's Rage, page 144:[…] this rage against the machine comes from bands belonging to the first computer-literate generation, the first generation of bands to develop websites and to benefit from internet marketing and online communities and fanzones.
** 2013, Leslie Woodhead, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, page 204:The crowds packed into the “fanzones” were taking the full force of the storm. Even the trusty shopping trolley had to be abandoned as we sloshed our way to a gap in the fence where McCartney's chief gatekeeper, Stuart Bell, was fighting a losing battle with gangs of sodden pressmen.
** 2023, K G Miles, Paul Metsa, Ed Newman, Bob Dylan in Minnesota:London Palladium in October 2022, I hosted a fanzone in The Dylan Room at the London Troubadour Club with Jackie Lees, my co-author for Bob Dylan in London.