West Ham United supporters led the way in total arrests, the most likely division to see a fan led away in handcuffs is League Two and the only area where there was not a rise in disorder appeared to be on transport.
Those are just some of the headlines from the Home Office’s annual report into arrests and banning orders across England and Wales, which indicates a significant rise in disorder across the board as arrests reached their highest total since 2013-14.
In total 2,198 fans were arrested at games last season, with incidents of disorder reported at 53% of matches (1,609 of 3,019). In 2018-19, the last full season with supporters pre-Covid, there were reported incidents at 1,007 matches, equivalent to one third of the games played.
