Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales, includes data, trends and football club comparisons for the 2024 to 2025 domestic football season (including regulated football matches played in and outside England and Wales) and has been published shortly after the end of the domestic football season which is earlier than in previous years. Additional statistics, covering international tournaments held in the summer of 2025 and any revisions to the domestic football season data, will be published in autumn 2025.

The release also provides information on reported incidents of football-related violence, disorder, anti-social behaviour and harm connected to football.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Jenny Bradley.

If you have any queries about this release, please email PolicingStatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics. We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.

To support the future development of these statistics and expand our user reach, we encourage users to complete our https://www.homeofficesurveys.homeoffice.gov.uk/s/LSZP0V/">user engagement survey.

Statistics on football-related arrests for the 1984 to 1985 season to the 1999 to 2000 season.

The Home Office statistician responsible for this release is David Blunt, Chief Statistician and Head of Profession for Statistics.

If you have any queries about this release, please email CSU.statistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales, covers the 2023 to 2024 season, as well as historical trend data and football club comparisons. The release also provides information on reported incidents of football-related anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder and official statistics in development on online hate crime connected to football.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Jenny Bradley.

If you have any queries about this release, please email PolicingStatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics.

We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.

To support the future development of these statistics and expand our user reach, we encourage users to complete our https://www.homeofficesurveys.homeoffice.gov.uk/s/FootballRelatedArrestsBanningOrdersPublicationSurvey/">user engagement survey.

This release presents statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders in connection with regulated international and domestic football matches. It also includes experimental statistics on other arrests at football matches and reported incidents of football-related anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder.

The statistics in this release are based on information provided by the United Kingdom Football Policing Unit (UKFPU). The statistics on football-related arrests were submitted by all 43 police forces in England and Wales and British Transport Police (BTP) whilst information on banning orders was taken from the Football Banning Order Authority’s (part of UKFPU) records. Experimental statistics on reported incidents of football-related anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder are extracted from the Home Office’s football database and derived from reports of incidents submitted by police dedicated football officers.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Daniel Shaw.

If you have any queries about this release, please email PublicOrderStatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics.

We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.

During the 2013 to 2014 season, the total number of arrests by Home Office police forces in connection with regulated international and domestic football matches involving teams from (or representing) England and Wales was 2,273. This represents a decrease of 183 arrests, or 7%, on the 2012 to 2013 total.

During the football season, police football intelligence officers submit a range of data, including arrest information, to the UKFPU. The UKFPU contains the Football Banning Orders Authority, which administers all football banning orders. The Home Office collates and publishes football-related arrest and banning order data annually.

Arrests by competition and type of offence.

Date: Thu Dec 23 14:17:27 GMT 2010

Full Document

• http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/non-personal-data/crime-and-victims/football-statistics-2009-10/football-competition-offence.csv?view=Binary">Arrests by competition and type of offence (Microsoft Excel file - 1kb)

Football-related arrests and attendances in England and Wales - season 2009-10

Date: Thu Dec 23 14:10:51 GMT 2010

Full Document

• http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/non-personal-data/crime-and-victims/football-statistics-2009-10/football-arrests-09-10.csv?view=Binary">Football-related arrests and attendances in England and Wales - season 2009-10 (Microsoft Excel file - 1kb)

Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders for the 2003 to 2004 season.

Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders for the 2000 to 2001 season.

The Home Office statistician responsible for this release is David Blunt, Chief Statistician and Head of Profession for Statistics.

If you have any queries about this release, please email CSU.statistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

The statistics in this release are based on information provided by the United Kingdom Football Policing Unit (UKFPU). The statistics on football-related arrests were submitted by all 43 police forces in England and Wales and British Transport Police (BTP) whilst information on banning orders was taken from the Football Banning Order Authority’s (part of UKFPU) records. Statistics on reported incidents of football-related anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder are extracted from the Home Office’s football database and derived from reports of incidents submitted by police dedicated football officers.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Jenny Bradley.

If you have any queries about this release, please email PolicingStatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics.

We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.

This release presents statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders in connection with regulated international and domestic football matches.

The statistics in this release are based on information provided by the United Kingdom Football Policing Unit (UKFPU). The statistics on football-related arrests were submitted by all 43 police forces in England and Wales and BTP whilst information on banning orders was taken from the Football Banning Order Authority’s (part of UKFPU) records.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is David Blunt, Chief Statistician and Head of Profession for Statistics.

If you have any queries about this release, please email CSU.statistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

This release presents statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders in connection with regulated international and domestic football matches.

The statistics in this release are based on information provided by the United Kingdom Football Policing Unit (UKFPU). The statistics on football-related arrests were submitted by all 43 police forces in England and Wales and British Transport Police (BTP) whilst information on banning orders was taken from the Football Banning Order Authority’s (part of UKFPU) records.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Amy Baxter.

If you have any queries about this release, please email FLPOAU@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics.

We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.