Season 06/07 - December

Feyenoord tries to distance itself from hooligans at UEFA Cup tie - 01/12/2006

Source : Herald Tribune

Feyenoord warned French authorities that its fans who rioted at the UEFA Cup match against Nancy were traveling to France despite being banned from Dutch stadiums.

"We did everything we could to prevent problems. We knew every supporter who bought a ticket via the club," Feyenoord director Otto Jacobs said Friday on the club's Web site.

Feyenoord hooligans fought and smashed windows in the town of Nancy before ripping out and throwing seats during Thursday night's match. Police used tear gas, forcing the referee to halt the match in the 80th minute because it was affecting the players.

Five Dutch fans detained during the melee remained in French police custody in Nancy. Police said they were expected to appear before prosecutors later Friday.

Feyenoord said it warned French authorities that known hooligans had bought tickets in Nancy because they were barred from buying official tickets through the Rotterdam club.

Jacobs appealed to the Dutch government to introduce legislation that would force hooligans to report regularly to law enforcement authorities — a move designed to ensure they do not travel to matches.

"We need a football law," Jacobs said. "There are hooligans walking around (Nancy) who have 20-year bans for all Dutch stadiums. That could have been prevented with a reporting obligation."

French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy promised punishment "with the greatest force" for those responsible, saying soccer must not be "poisoned with the behavior of savages."

Sarkozy said he was waiting for the results of an official investigation before commenting on allegations that a regional prefect had knowingly allowed violent fans into the stadium.

Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman said a small minority had ruined the match for law-abiding fans.

"Ninety-five percent of the fans came to support us. They came all the way here to cheer us on," Koeman said on the club's Web site. "Five percent wanted to make trouble. Well, they succeeded.

"The worst thing is that I had expected this. We knew that a number of people with stadium bans had bought tickets not through Feyenoord, which gave me a bad feeling. This is terrible — I felt so powerless."

Feyenoord striker Pierre van Hooijdonk said a possible UEFA ban for the club may mean he never plays another European match. Van Hooijdonk has said this will be his final season before retiring.

"I may have played the last European Cup tie of my career," he said. "I'm not sentimental, but it hurts that it has to end this way. This is a disaster for the club. We're facing a serious punishment. In these miserable times that is a bad outlook."

Goalkeeper Henk Timmer, who had to have an injection to relieve the symptoms of tear gas before the match was resumed in a near empty stadium, said the rioting was not only bad for the club.

"Feyenoord has so many great fans," he said. "It is such a shame that they have to suffer because of the actions of a small group. That's the worst thing about this: it is not good for the team, it is not good for the club and it is not good for Dutch soccer."

Sunday's PSG-Toulouse match postponed over hooligan fears - 01/12/2006

Source : Herald Tribune + AP

Sunday's French league soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Toulouse was postponed because of fears of renewed hooliganism, the Paris police said on Friday.

A new date for the match was not given.

Last week, a plainclothes police officer shot two PSG fans — killing one and wounding another — when a horde of the club's supporters shouted racist and anti-Semitic epithets following a UEFA Cup match against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

This week, the Paris police announced a section of the stands at PSG's Parc des Princes stadium where hooligans are known to congregate would be closed for Sunday's match.

However, following meetings on Friday with representatives of France's soccer league, PSG and fan organizations, the police decided to postpone the match entirely.

"The police, having heard from all concerned, decided the conditions necessary for a normal match were not met and asked the Professional Soccer League to postpone the match," the police said in a statement.


Quiet Paris Saint-Germain fans hold a banner reading "Truth for Julien" as they stand in the tribunes of the Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, western France, prior to the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. The inscription refers to Julien Quemener, a Paris Saint-Germain fan who was shot to death last Thursday by a plainclothes police officer while the policeman was trying to protect a supporter of Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv, after a UEFA Cup match in Paris.

Security lapse sparked soccer trouble, admit organisers - 03/12/2006

Source: AFP

DOHA (AFP) - Asian Games chiefs have admitted that a soccer security lapse led to ugly scenes of crowd trouble after Qatar's 1-0 defeat to Uzbekistan.

Fans pelted the pitch with plastic bottles at the Al Sadd Stadium at the end of Saturday's match, venting their anger at a Qatar goal being ruled out when the referee blew for half-time just as the ball went into the net.

Bottles rained down on the players in a match which looks likely to signal the end of the home side's hopes of making the quarter-finals.

"Some of the people responsible for making sure that items like food and bottles are not brought into the ground allowed them in," said Games spokesman Ahmed Abdulla Al-Khulaifi.

"The Games Venue Task Force is now investigating the incident and trying to identify the fans involved.

"We condemn this sort of behaviour. We are not used to this in Qatar and we ask people to be more hospitable and show respect for fans and athletes.

"But the problem at the Al Sadd stadium is that the spectators are very close to the edge of the pitch."

Despite the incident, Al-Khulaifi said there were no plans to beef up the police presence when Qatar play their last group game against the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday.

Saturday's trouble was sparked when Malaysian referee Kirshman Ramachandran blew for half-time just as Rizak Wesam headed the ball in. As a result, the effort was ruled out.

The Uzbeks, gold medallists at the 1994 Hiroshima Games, took full advantage when striker Alexander Geynrikh scored the winner in the 67th minute to virtually guarantee his team a quarter-final slot.

"I was disappointed with some of the supporters," admitted Qatar goalkeeper Mohamed Saqr.

"We don't need that. It's not good for anybody."

Paris fans march in memory of killed supporter - 03/12/2006

Source: Reuters

Hundreds of Paris St Germain fans marched in silence on Sunday in memory of a supporter whose killing by a policeman prompted a nationwide debate on hooliganism and a crackdown on violence at the club.

The black policeman shot dead 25-year-old Julien Quemener while under attack from a group of supporters shouting racist insults and chasing a Jewish fan after PSG's home defeat to Israel's Hapoel Tel Aviv 10 days ago, police say.

Sunday's match between PSG and Toulouse was postponed for security reasons and the Boulogne Kop, an area of the Parc des Princes where PSG's most extreme fans traditionally assemble, has been closed until further notice.

Quemener was a member of the Boulogne Boys, a group of supporters that includes some far-right sympathisers and people registered by the police as violent.

The demonstrators, who police said numbered up to 1,200, marched slowly past PSG's home stadium and the spot nearby where Quemener was killed, bearing a large black banner that read: "May justice be done!".

Many of them challenge the police's version of events, which says the officer who shot Quemener fired in self-defence.

"People should stop saying that he was a neo-Nazi, that he was a hooligan, that Paris supporters are thugs," an unnamed demonstrator told France 2 television.

The march ended peacefully.

Dinamo Zagreb - NK Zagreb - 02/12/2006

Source: mail

Mansfield Town - Doncaster Rovers - Cup - 03/12/2006

Source: yahoo.co.uk



A. Doncaster Rovers fan is held by steward after a pitch invasion.

AC Fiorentina - Lazio Roma - 03/12/2006

Source: Ansa + Belga

Lazio fans set a police car in fire just a few minutes before kick-off
Four Lazio fans were arrested

Ammunitions inside the Benfica stadium ! - 02/12/2006

Source : Brevesdefoot

Portuguese police forces searched a Benfica fans' local, inside the stadium La Luz, where they found ammunitions.
Police forces didn't revelead the group's name but many people think it concerns No Name Boys.
A 27 years-old man was arrested.

RC Strasbourg - SC Bastia - 01/12/2006

Source : Brevesdefoot + Football365

Feyenoord hooligans stopped in Strasbourg

Local polie forces restored order last night during this game at the Meinau stadium.
Local Meinau Boys, joined by about 20 Feyenoord lads who caused troubles a few days before in Nancy, showed a flag for Julien Quemener, the PSG fan killed by a policeman.
Seven people were arrested, most of them being Dutch.
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Local view :

Troubles occured after local lads showed a flag for Julien Quemener.
Police forces and local security didn't appreciate and tried to catch the flag.
At this time, local fans, joined by a few Feyenoord lads made provocations and were totally angry.
Police forces charged us and 6 fans were arrested.

AS Roma - Atalanta Bergamo - 02/12/2006

Source : L'EQUIPE

A fan is stabbed

Three Atalanta fans were injured Saturday night. One of them so seriously, after being stabbed during fights who took place between both sides of supporters.
Riots occured one hour before kick-off, outside the stadium.
Ansa and AFP press agencies said everything started when 2 coaches full of Atalanta fans were stucked into the traffic.
Atalanta fans jumped outside the coaches and fought with local ultras.
Police forces charged Atalanta lads, pushed them inside coaches.

SC Napoli - Frosinone - 02/12/2006

Source : ANSA

After 22 minutes of playing during 2nd half, referee stopped the game for 6 minutes after firecrackers were threw from Napoli fans.

Genoa - Juventus Turin - 01/12/2006

Source : Brevesdefoot

Riots between Juventus fans and Genoa fans

Riots took place inside the stadium, opposing Juventus fans to police forces at the end of the game.
Ansa press agency said 8 fans were injured and 3 policemen.

Fenerbahçe - Galatasaray - 03/12/2006

Source : Belga

A Fenerbahce fan stabbed by a Galatasaray fan

A Fenerbahce fan was stabbed at his leg by a Galatasaray rival before this high-risks derby game.
Victim was assaulted by a group of fans in Mecediyekoy, the Galatasaray place.
The assaulted fan used a gun to protect himself, before being stabbed.

RKC Waalwijk - Sparta Rotterdam - 03/12/2006

Source : ad.nl

Police forces, using dogs, restored order at the end of the game, as a fight took place between fans from both teams.

Sedan - Troyes - 03/12/2006

Source : Football365

Patrick Regnault, Sedan goalkeeper, was assaulted by Sedan fans at the end of the game, outside the stadium, as he provoked them.
Security, with dog handlers, restored order.

Argentina: Tickets for the game Boca - Belgrano - 01/12/2006

Source : 26noticias

Riots took place between fans and security forces when tickets were sell.
Two fans were arrested.

The thugs who shamed a city - 05/12/2006

Source : icBirmingham

THEY appeared to be the height of respectability.

A hard-working multi-millionaire company director, an ambulance driver, a hero soldier commended for bravery in Iraq.

Darron Brough, Mark O'Connor and Darren Williams appear to be just the kind of people the community needs. But today they can be revealed as violent football thugs.

They and more than 50 others - many with good jobs or involved in charity work where they live - have been sentenced over shameful football violence which brought terror to families in a Birmingham street.

It perplexed His Honour Judge Ross, at Birmingham Crown Court, who said: "That is one of the great tragedies of this case.

"Man after man are mature family men, often doing good work for the communities, yet they became involved in this.

"It has been one of the features that family and friends are more than surprised by what some people who are otherwise respectable get involved in.

" I don't understand it and expect I never will."

The Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion yobs were involved in a pre-planned pitched battle outside The Uplands family pub in Handsworth, two-and-a-half hours after the 1-1 draw in August 2004.

The Birmingham Mail can today finally name the 60 thugs after a court order gagging us from reporting their trials was lifted.

Up to 80 men - fuelled by booze and some armed with iron bars, wooden posts, bricks, bottles and glasses - were captured by police cameras as they rampaged outside the Uplands pub, in Oxhill Road, as terrified passers-by, including a woman with two young children, cowered in fear.

Following extensive police inquiries, 60 men were charged and 58 of them received football banning orders.

A handful of the jailed yobs had previous convictions for football hooliganism - including three men for the infamous 2002 'Battle of Rocky Lane' between Villa and Blues thugs on the eve of the teams' first top flight clash for 16 years.

Police said hooligan groups attached to both clubs arranged their own "fixture" of a different kind.

What they didn't know was that one of the key thugs was being secretly taped by police.

Police said a crowd of Villa hooligans, some already banned from football matches for hooliganism, had been drinking in the Rose Villa Tavern, in Highgate, just outside the two-mile cordon imposed by their banning order.

Meanwhile, Albion fans were in the Royal Oak, in West Bromwich.

A flurry of phone calls was exchanged between the two groups but police were secretly videoing Baggies fan Simon Hamblett as he spoke to an unknown Villa counterpart.

"How many do you want?" he asked. "How many's a good knock like? How many, 40-50?"

After apparently spotting police he said: "Old Bill got us now. See you later."

When police arrested him he dropped a pool ball under a hedge.

Text messages were found on the mobile phones of two other fans, Matthew Brittle and John Crawley.

One read: "Not going to match. Just going to smash town up."

Hamblett, 32, a painter from Charnwood Road, Walsall, pleaded guilty to a more serious charge of conspiracy to commit violent disorder and was jailed for three years with a 10-year football ban.

The Villa group, their numbers buoyed by other so-called fans, left the Rose Villa Tavern for the Uplands Pub, in Oxhill Road, Handsworth.

By a stroke of "good fortune and good policing" as the trial judge said, police spotters were on the scene as they thugs clashed.

They capture seven sickening minutes of violence which proved the crucial evidence that led to the thugs being brought to justice.

Notorious thug Steven Fowler, 36, of Cottage Lane, Minworth - branded a committed football hooligan by the trial judge - was jailed for 20 months for his part in the brawl on August 22, 2004.

Just weeks before, he was jailed for a year for his part in another violent clash between Villa fans and Chelsea supporters in London in March 2004.

Christopher Deakin, Liam McCarron, Carl Meah and Jamie Wellings, who were convicted alongside him for the Chelsea incident, were also jailed for their part in the fight in Handsworth

Another man, Spencer 'Spenna' Evans, a well-respected member of the community who did charity work, had even contributed to a book about soccer thugs in which the Uplands brawl was discussed.

Multi-millionaire company director Darron Brough, 41, of Walsall Wood Road, Aldridge was jailed for 15 months.

Soldier Darren Williams, 33, from Falfield Grove, Longbridge, escaped a prison sentence after the court heard glowing references from senior Army officers about his conduct during a six-month posting to Basra. It is understood he was awarded a bravery commendation.

Shopfitter Jamie Teale, 21, from Forest Lane, Bloxwich was jailed for 21 months, and was said by police to be "a Walsall hooligan doing a bit a freelance to help Villa out."

Yesterday, father-of-three Neil Hemming, 43, from Emily Road, South Yardley, became the last person to be sentenced for his part in the mass brawl, nearly two-and-a-half years ago.

The assembler, who didn't throw a single punch but acted "a referee", received a 12-months prison sentence suspended for two years, a five-year football ban and was ordered to pay £500 in costs.

After his conviction, Judge Martin Cardinal lifted the reporting restrictions.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "This was a lengthy investigation that resulted in 58 people being banned from football matches for a considerable period of time. If you go to football matches intent on causing trouble you will be arrested, put before the courts and banned from watching the game.

"It should be made clear that, while these people may claim to be football fans they are, in fact, criminals."

West Bromwich Albion match day operations manager, Kevin Jennings, said: "We are pleased that the leading police officers in this case have highlighted the role the club played in apprehending the offenders.

"At the start of the 2004/2005 season, the club provided the police with extra funds to enable the force to have evidence gatherers - officers with video cameras - in operation on match days. This proved crucial during this incident.

"Following the jail terms handed out by the courts in this case, we are hoping hooligans will think twice before causing trouble."

Seven more held in casuals crackdown - 05/12/2006

Source : Scotsman

SEVEN suspected Hearts and Hibs casuals were being quizzed by police today after officers swooped in a second series of dawn raids.

Thirty officers targeted six addresses across the Lothians at 5am as part of a crackdown on football violence following clashes after October's Edinburgh derby.

The raids took place in Stenhouse, Redhall and Kirknewton, with seven men aged 15 to 55 questioned by detectives.

The operation follows weeks of work carried out by a police, who have viewed hundreds of hours of CCTV footage in order to identify thugs involved in street battles.

Up to 60 hooligans fought running battles in Lothian Road and Fountain Park following the Hibs v Hearts fixture on October 15.

A police spokesman confirmed that four men had been arrested and three detained in today's raids.

Today's blitz followed similar early morning raids on November 28 which saw ten people arrested.

The men appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court accused of forming part of a disorderly crowd on October 15.

A single breach of the peace charge also alleged that the crowd threw bottles, traffic cones and other missiles.

A special police task force was formed to track down up to 60 Hibs and Hearts casuals involved in the fighting.

The new squad, which is based at Gayfield Square police station, was given orders to trace hooligans who fought running battles after the derby match.

Violence flared between rival gangs of casuals following the 2-2 draw.

The team of eight officers studied around 30 hours of CCTV footage capturing the disturbances in a bid to identify the thugs.

It is believed older hooligans, who were part of the city's notorious casual scene 20 years ago, are returning to be joined by younger men.

Police chiefs ordered undercover officers to track suspected casuals across Edinburgh in a bid to stamp out violence around the next derby clash on November 8.

The clampdown was part of the biggest policing operation planned for a derby game in the Capital in more than five years, with 100 officers assigned to handle the game.

Alan Bomford, 39, Douglas Brown, 21, Kevin Doctor, 38, Andrew Jordan, 21, Peter Whitehead, 23, Stewart Elliot, 22, Raymond McLeod, 37, Stephen Crawford, 35, Kristofer McCall, 23, all of Edinburgh and Justin Main, 20, of Tranent, East Lothian, made no plea or declaration.

An eleventh man was named on the indictment but did not appear.

The men were all released on bail on the condition that they stay away from all SPL matches and do not enter Fountainbridge and Lothian Road.

No Napoli fans at next home game - 05/12/2006

Source : Soccerway

Serie B league leaders Napoli have been ordered to play their next home game behind closed doors after recent crowd trouble.

The one match supporters-ban has also been accompanied with a fine for the club, after flares and fireworks were thrown onto the pitch during the home teams previous game against Frosinone.

The game itself had to be suspended twice whilst the pitch was cleared and Napoli will now face Mantova on December 16th without their supporters.

Cliftonville-Glentoran - Irish Cup final - 02/12/06

source: BBC Sport

Clashes follow soccer cup final

There has been trouble involving Cliftonville soccer fans following the CIS Cup final at Windsor Park.
Police said officers were attacked by a large crowd in the Boucher Road area following the match, in which Glentoran beat Belfast rivals Cliftonville 1-0.

A PSNI spokesman said police officers had prevented a lorry from being hijacked, while several vehicles at a car dealership were damaged.

He said a number of officers were injured during the disturbance.

About 7,000 people watched Glentoran beat Cliftonville, thanks to a 31st minute Gary Hamilton goal.

The police spokesman said there were no reports of trouble during the game but "a breakaway group of approximately 300 people" attacked officers afterwards with bottles, stones and other objects.

French League wants stadium bans to fight hooliganism - 05/12/2006

Source : Reuters

Barring supporters registered as violent from entering stadiums is the best way to fight soccer hooliganism, the French Professional Football League (LFP) said on Tuesday.
The death of a Paris St Germain fan following last month's 4-2 UEFA Cup defeat by Hapoel Tel Aviv has triggered a nationwide debate about how to rid French soccer of violence and racism.
The lower section of the Boulogne Kop, an area of the Parc des Princes where PSG's most extreme fans traditionally assemble, has been closed on police orders until further notice.
A league match between PSG and Toulouse scheduled for Sunday, which would have been the capital side's first home game since the incidents, has been postponed for security reasons.
French daily Le Parisien stirred controversy on Tuesday by saying the LFP shared the PSG supporters' view that the Boulogne Kop should be reopened.
"The LFP is not asking for areas of the stands to be reopened. It is only asking for effective and realistic measures to fight hooliganism," the ruling body responded in a statement.
The League made clear, however, that it believed stadium bans would have more effect than decisions to close stands.
"The LFP has been convinced for years that the most effective measure is to bar the 300 or 400 individuals known as violent from entering the stadium and to retain them at the police station during the game," the statement added.
"If such a measure was really implemented, the question of closing stands would become of secondary importance."
A policeman shot dead 25-year-old Julien Quemener and injured another fan while under attack from supporters after the Nov. 23 game.
Witnesses said the policeman opened fire on a mob of PSG fans who were chasing a Jewish supporter of Israeli team Hapoel outside Parc des Princes.
PSG have been tainted by hooliganism for years. Their next home game is against Panathinaikos in the UEFA Cup on Dec. 13.

The Last Word: Soccer violence in Israel - 04/12/2006

source: Jerusalem Post


Some months ago, around the start of the Israeli soccer season, a few skirmishes broke out at matches around the country, somehow causing widespread concern amongst the viewing and reading public.

The first came during the closing stages of Hapoel Tel Aviv's last-minute defeat at the hands of Betar Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium.

A number of Hapoel fans, clearly frustrated at seeing their team throw away a 1-0 lead against their archrival in the last few minutes, appeared to get a little uppity and shouted all manner of rude words as well as making some less-than-family-orientated gestures. The police swiftly got involved, going in rather heavy-handedly, and ejected a number of Tel Aviv supporters.

Instead of images of fans acting violently, what was seen in the video footage of the event was that the policemen were acting baton-happy, beating many supporters into submission. The images of the apparently violent soccer supporters being controlled by the police were shown on news and sports programs throughout that week, prompting numerous discussions not over the over-eager tactics of the police, but of the so-called violence at soccer matches.

This trend continued in the following weeks, when fans of both Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv were publicly controlled by the authorities in a manner which did not seem entirely proportionate (for want of better word).

Despite the overriding influence of the police on proceedings, a special committee was set up by politicians to address the issue, which came up with all sorts of conclusions about how to deal with the increasing dangers in the soccer stadiums.

In a laughable discussion on television that week, footage of rioting English soccer supporters were shown followed by a discussion of how to deal with Israeli fans.

The two were miles apart. They may get a little rowdy but it is extremely unlikely that any of these Israel supporters would act in the overly violent manner of their English counterparts.

An incident occurred a week and a half ago which more than likely put these discussions into perspective.

Anyone who saw footage of the Paris Saint-Germain supporters rioting following their team's defeat in France to Hapoel Tel Aviv, would realize that Israeli authorities should thank their lucky stars.

There is no film of the incident in which a black policeman was prompted to shoot dead a member of a crazed group of PSG fans, but reports of what happened, describing how the Parisians were shouting anti-Semitic and racist slogans and were closing in on the policeman and a group of Hapoel fans, were chilling to say the least.

It was nothing like the much, much lower levels of violence in this country.

The fact is that the majority of supporters who make up groups such as Betar' Jerusalem's La Familia or Maccabi Tel Aviv's Ultras 96 are just youngsters with over-inflated aspirations.

Sure, there have been incidences of cars being smashed or small fights, but nothing on the level of PSG, West Ham or Millwall.

Last season, I traveled up to Bnei Sakhnin with the hardcore Betar Jerusalem supporters. Many of these fans appeared to be no older than 15 or 16 years old. They talked a good talk, about how they want to go to England to fight with the supporters of West Ham or Millwall. But when given the opportunity, they made no attempt to fight the Sakhnin fans and we all knew it was all talk.

Of course there is a small problem of violence at soccer matches in this country, but anyone who compares it to the organized violence and racism on the terraces in Europe needs to take a closer look.

SK Lierse - FC Bruges - 03/12/2006

Source: ITK - Bruges view

we were drinking at the train station in lier, with undercover ob in front off the pub, 2 hours before the match we walked to the lierse pub (15 min walk away), undercover ob called up the robocops who hade to come from the other way from the railway, as we were 5 min from the lier pub the railway closed and ob had serious stress, they drove thrue the closed railway and stopped us at 100m from the lier pub, a shame the train din't came 2 min earlier, we ran away to avoid ob, and a few got away, the rest off our group were escorted back to the pub by the railway station by ob, 6 lads off ours met a group off 20 off lier (mostly young guys) they charged and lier rant away, another group off us met another lier group close to the stadion and some punches where trown on both sides,
after the game we were drinking at a pub close to the ground, we have to leave from ob and again a walk with the robocops to the railway station, some call's were made and lier was going to come after us, at one point we were walking near a waterway and at the other side behind a line off trea's lier group was following, we were heading to a bridge but the lier group couldn't keep their mouth shut and started shouting , , so ob called up some more robocops and cleared the other side off the waterway and secured the bridge
we waited another hour at the trainstation, but ob in big numbers and on every side
thanks for lier to try, but next time please shut up

Red Star Belgrade - PAOK Thessaloniki (basket) - 05/12/2006

Source : AP + Tribina website + Herald Tribune

Six injured in brawl at Red Star-PAOK basketball match

Four fans and two police officers were injured during a wild brawl before a basketball game between Red Star Belgrade and PAOK Thessaloniki.

The fighting broke out late Tuesday at the ULEB Cup game after fans of Red Star's local rival, Partizan, showed up to support the visiting Greek team, police spokeswoman Dragana Kajganic said.

About 100 Partizan fans and a few dozen PAOK supporters fought several hundred Red Star fans.

The fighting took place in the stands and on the court at the Pionir Sports Hall in the Serbian capital. Fans also tossed flares and plastic seats.

"One of the fans sustained serious injuries, including a fractured arm," Kajganic said, adding that several people were detained as suspected instigators of the violence. She did not say which team's supporters were injured.

Two police officers were injured while trying to keep the rival groups apart with truncheons.

One Partizan fan was sentenced Wednesday to seven days in prison for causing injuries during the brawl. Several Red Star fans were fined the equivalent of US$200 (€150) for bringing flares into the hall.

The start of the match was delayed for about 30 minutes. PAOK won 85-81.
















Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16rMxwQ6bQk

UEFA fines Feyenoord €125,000 for crowd trouble at Nancy - 07/12/2006

Source : AP

UEFA fined Feyenoord €125,000 (US$166,000) Thursday for crowd trouble during last week's UEFA Cup match at Nancy.

The Dutch club's fans fought and smashed windows in the French town before ripping out and throwing seats during Nancy's 3-0 victory on Nov. 30.

Police lobbed tear gas in Marcel-Picot Stadium, forcing the referee to stop the match in the 80th minute because it was affecting the players. The players returned to the field about 20 minutes later and completed the match.

UEFA said it fined Feyenoord because of "serious disturbances caused by their supporters, including the throwing of missiles."

The governing body of European soccer also said it has put Feyenoord under probation. If another offense is committed in the next three years, the team may be forced to play two matches behind closed doors in addition to any other penalties handed down, UEFA's control and disciplinary body decided.

Feyenoord said on its Web site that it wouldn't appeal the verdict. The statement was posted alongside another urging supporters to sign a petition condemning soccer violence.