Spectators will be limited or not allowed at all in some instances under Berks County Interscholastic Athletic Association guidelines, which were posted Thursday on the league website, one day before football season kicks off.

The league will strictly follow Gov. Tom Wolf’s June 10 order, which limits indoor gatherings to 25 and outdoor gatherings to 250.

Wilson, a BCIAA member, announced later Thursday it plans to move forward with its plan to increase capacity at Gurski Stadium and its other sports venues.

For football, soccer and field hockey, BCIAA schools will utilize ticket vouchers, which will be distributed by each school. Only those with vouchers can purchase a ticket.

For soccer and field hockey, the home school be allowed to permit up to 170 people, the visiting school 80. Those figures include athletes, coaches, officials, game management personnel and media.

The BCIAA will allow no spectators at girls volleyball matches, which are played indoors; team personnel will be modified to stay within the 25-person limit.

No visiting bands, cheerleaders or spectators will be permitted to attend football games.

Media members must be pre-approved to cover events. No passes will be accepted.

The BCIAA has made contingency plans should spectator limits be expanded, either thru House Bill 2787 or by the PIAA.

HB 2787 will allow individual schools to make their own determination for spectator capacity.

If that occurs schools will allocate a minimum of one ticket voucher to each visiting athlete in football, soccer, field hockey and girls volleyball. Any remaining vouchers and how they will be distributed will be determined by the host school.

Some schools across the state exceeded the 250 limit for football games last weekend.

Dr. Robert Lombardi, executive director of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, has urged schools to follow the governor’s order.

“If schools violate this (order), it will cause us … a huge problem,” Lombardi wrote in a letter to the PIAA Board of Control.

“Each individual school, if they want to make those type of decisions, that’s up to them and their legal team,” Lombardi told the Reading Eagle, “but we would hope that everybody would play by the same rules.”

Wolf said Wednesday that the state Department of Education will release updated guidelines regarding spectators; that could come as early as today.

The new guidelines are in response to the federal court ruling that declared Wolf’s gatherings limit order unconstitutional.

Wolf said in early August that high school sports should not be played in the state until Jan. 1; he has since said it is up to individual schools to determine whether they should play sports, and how many spectators should be permitted.

Wolf also said decisions about in-person or virtual teaching should be left to each individual school district.