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<p>The Home Office publishes annual figures on the number of football banning orders
issued and the number of football-related arrests in England and Wales in the ‘Football-related
arrests and banning orders, England and Wales’ Official Statistics publication. The
latest data cover the 2021 to 2022 football season and are available here: Football-related
arrests and banning orders, England and Wales: 2021 to 2022 season - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data on the number of football banning orders issued and the number of football-related
arrests for pitch incursion since the 2010 to 2011 season are published in tables
1 and 5 of the accompanying data tables.</p><p>There were 516 new banning orders issued
in the 2021 to 2022 football season, down by 46% since the 2010 to 2011 season.</p><p>There
were 313 football-related arrests for pitch incursion in the 2021 to 2022 football
season, up by 30% since the 2010 to 2011 season.</p><p>Data on arrests for the offence
of entering the playing area at a designated football match that have led to the imposition
of football banning orders is not held. A football banning order is a preventative
measure which is not issued as part of a sentence, or solely based on an individual’s
conviction offence. In deciding whether to make a banning order, a court may consider
a range of prosecution evidence in support of a banning order application.</p>
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