Discrimination at Football Matches
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007712/U
Version Date: 18/03/2025
Are you able to please provide statistics on the number of reports you received of incidents of homophobia or sexual orientation-based discrimination at football matches for the following calendar years:
1. 2023
2. 2024
If possible, for each year, please split data by whether the incidents occurred at professional or semi-professional matches; or amateur matches.
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Data Processing:
Crimes recorded on crime information system – NICHE
Cancelled crimes included, Non notifiable crimes excluded
Qliksense Report: Crime and Outcomes
Filtered by date: 01/01/2023 and 31/12/2024
Hate Crime: Yes
Hate Type: All containing "Sexual Orientation"
MO Location, Feature and Address searched for: Football, stadium and sports
Several crimes were found using "sports", none were relevant to the request
Qliksense Report: Niche Hate or Prejudice Occurrences app
Filtered by occurnce created date: 01/01/2023 and 31/12/2024
Is Crime?: N
"Data from 'Occurrences with at least one prejudice local qualifier' and
'Occurrences with at least one prejudice NICL qualifier' tabs extracted and combined (duplicates removed)"
Local Qualifier: Prejudice - sexual orientation
MO Location matched to data
MO Location searched for: Football, stadium and sports
Data Limitations:
- It is worth noting that a hate crime could involve more than one hate type.
- Data is reliant on the accurate recording of the location of the offence.
The above searches resulted a nil return.