Posts tagged with "football hooliganism"

Government plans to amend penalties linked to fan cards   Cyprus

Government plans to amend penalties linked to fan cards  

November 26th, 2018   The government said on Monday it will not be scrapping the controversial sports fan card but it will look into amending provisions to reduce certain offences included in the wider law from criminal to disciplinary. The announcement was made by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou following a meeting with the football association...
Four Eintracht fans fined for flares and narcotics Cyprus

Four Eintracht fans fined for flares and narcotics

November 9th, 2018 Four men were arrested and taken to court and fined for bringing flares and narcotics to the Eintracht Frankfurt – Apollon game on Thursday, police said on Friday. According to authorities, the men - 20, 25, 26, and 27 all fans of Eintracht – were stopped for check upon entering the stadium, and police found flares and 0.1 g of...
Football hooligans fined and banned Cyprus

Football hooligans fined and banned

September 21st, 2018 Two football hooligans were fined €750 each and barred from matches for nine months on Friday for possessing flares and firecrackers during the Apoel-Astana game on August 23. The two teenagers, aged 17 and 19, were detained after the game when officers found the explosives during a search of the car they were travelling...
Firecrackers and flares lead to arrests at football game Cyprus

Firecrackers and flares lead to arrests at football game

August 24th, 2018 Several arrests were made both before and after the Apoel-Astana football match in Nicosia’s GSP stadium on Thursday night. Before the start, a 22-year-old man, a passenger in a car, lit a flare and waved it outside the car window. The car was stopped by police officers who arrested both the passenger and the driver. Another...
Sports ID cards introduced in bid to fight hooliganism Cyprus

Sports ID cards introduced in bid to fight hooliganism

July 23rd, 2018 The identity card for sports fans is to be rolled out as of the coming sports season (2018-2019) this autumn, the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) said on Monday. Admittance to any sports venue will from now be granted only to individuals possessing the card, with no exceptions, KOA officials said. The stated goal of the measure is...
Six-month match ban for Omonia fan Cyprus

Six-month match ban for Omonia fan

June 13th, 2018 Nicosia district court has ordered a man, 47, pay an €800 fine and be barred from all Omonia matches for six months, following his arrest before an Aek-Omonia match in March. The man was arrested for attacking a man on March 17, 2018, police said on Wednesday. The court issued their decision on Friday. The man has been barred...
Arrested for punching stadium steward (Updated) Cyprus

Arrested for punching stadium steward (Updated)

January 4th, 2018 A 33-year-old resident of Limassol who was arrested on Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly hit a steward at Tsirion football stadium was charged with violence on Thursday. His trial is scheduled to begin on January 21. Until then, the Ael supporter is barred from attending all public sports events. He was released after paying...
Akel accuses government of failing to tackle hooliganism Cyprus

Akel accuses government of failing to tackle hooliganism

December 13th, 2017 Akel-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas said on Wednesday that the outgoing government was blaming others instead of shouldering responsibility for the clashes at Monday’s match between AEL and Apoel. “It was only by luck that we did not mourn victims,” he said, accusing the government of inaction, reluctance,...
Security chief rebuked for failing to cancel football match Cyprus

Security chief rebuked for failing to cancel football match

December 13th, 2017   The chairman of the island’s sports organisation (KOA) said on Wednesday a football fixture marred by crowd trouble should not have gone ahead because the stadium’s head of security knew, after seeing it on CCTV footage, that dangerous objects like flares and firecrackers had been smuggled through in an astonishingly...
Football fans injured in skirmish Cyprus

Football fans injured in skirmish

August 4th, 2017 Two football fans were injured after Thursday’s match between Apollon and Aberdeen in Larnaca when a number of fans clashed with stewards at the AEK arena stadium. According to police, the Aberdeen supporters reacted when it was announced that Apollon fans were going to leave the stadium before them. To restore order, police had...
Greek Cypriot student brain dead after hooligan clash News in Brief

Greek Cypriot student brain dead after hooligan clash

May 3rd, 2017 A Greek Cypriot studying in Thessaloniki in Greece, who was hit by a car last week while running away from football hooligans, has been declared brain dead, it was reported on Wednesday. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), the student, who had gone last Thursday to watch his favourite football team, Paok, play in Thessaloniki,...
Female footie fan given suspended sentence for using firecrackers at match Cyprus

Female footie fan given suspended sentence for using firecrackers at match

February 1st, 2017 A Nicosia woman was handed a suspended sentence in connection with the use of firecrackers at a football match, police said Wednesday. “Nicosia District Court sentenced a 26-year-old woman from Nicosia to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for three years and a six month ban from stadiums, having found her guilty of charges of...
Police mull expansion of canine units to fight hooliganism Cyprus

Police mull expansion of canine units to fight hooliganism

October 11th, 2015 Police are studying utilising canine units to combat football hooliganism, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Sunday on the sidelines of the open day held by the force to interact more with the public. Nicolaou said instructions had already been given for the matter to be studied, based on which police will be able to determine...
British bases police conduct mock anti-hooliganism exercise Cyprus

British bases police conduct mock anti-hooliganism exercise

October 8th, 2015 British bases police in Dhekelia said on Thursday they had just completed a large-scale public order exercise at Ethnikos Achna FC which involved more than 150 individuals, including police, civilians and military personnel. “Violence at football grounds in Cyprus is not uncommon and the exercise, which was witnessed by Commander...
Our View: Police finally implement plan for dealing with football hooligans Opinion

Our View: Police finally implement plan for dealing with football hooligans

January 14th, 2015 FOR ONCE, we saw that the zero tolerance policy towards hooliganism we have been hearing about for years was not restricted to brave words uttered on radio shows by politicians. In Limassol on Sunday, during the AEL-APOEL league match, the police had a plan for dealing with the troublemakers and implemented it. There may have been a...
Remand for football hooligans who hurled toilet seats at fire fighters Cyprus

Remand for football hooligans who hurled toilet seats at fire fighters

January 12th, 2015 By Evie Andreou NINE OUT of the 41 APOEL fans arrested in connection with violence during the APOEL-AEL football match in Limassol on Sunday were remanded in custody for three days on Monday. The nine, aged between 16 and 32, face 14 charges including disturbance of peace, arson, assault and battery against officers, carrying...
Our View: If the CFA cannot handle the fan ID cards, then who can? Opinion

Our View: If the CFA cannot handle the fan ID cards, then who can?

September 26th, 2014 NOTHING could illustrate the heightened sense of irresponsibility that plagues Cyprus life more than the Cyprus Football Federation’s (CFA) decision not to take charge of the fan ID card, which the government wants to introduce as a way combating hooliganism. The CFA, which was handed the responsibility for implementing the card by...
The true cost of hooliganism Cyprus

The true cost of hooliganism

July 13th, 2014 By Constantinos Psillides WELL OVER 200 police officers and around 130 members of the public, match officials and football players have been injured in sports related violence in Cyprus in the last decade, a British former top police officer has discovered. In a week which saw the House of Representatives fail to pass the...
Our View: Football clubs a major part of the hooligan culture Opinion

Our View: Football clubs a major part of the hooligan culture

July 5th, 2014 IT CAME as no surprise that football clubs and supporters groups took a stand against the justice ministry’s bill for tackling football hooliganism. And it was certainly no surprise that many deputies chose to pander to them by expressing objections to the bill - football supporters represent a very big number of votes. Clubs are...
Hooligan bill ‘well on its way’ Cyprus

Hooligan bill ‘well on its way’

July 2nd, 2014 By Constantinos Psillides THE bill tackling football hooliganism will be put to a plenum vote on July 10, said House Legal Affairs Committee chairman Soteris Sampson yesterday, despite ongoing disagreements between the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the justice ministry. CFA head Kostakis Koutsokoumnis’ main point of...
Bill on football violence tabled to House Cyprus

Bill on football violence tabled to House

June 19th, 2014 By Constantinos Psillides A bill aimed at tackling football-related violence was introduced at the House on Thursday, with Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou making clear he wanted it voted on as it stood. “Today we are taking the fist step in our journey to change the unacceptable state our football is currently in. This journey...
New bill to curb hooliganism Cyprus

New bill to curb hooliganism

June 14th, 2014 By Staff Reporter The draft of a new bill aiming at preventing violence in football matches by controlling fans and by enforcing strict penalties to perpetrators is on its final stages, reports suggested yesterday. The draft is with the state’s legal services. Government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides, confirmed that the...
Our View: Football clubs should pay for thugs’ damage Opinion

Our View: Football clubs should pay for thugs’ damage

April 25th, 2014 THIS NEWSPAPER, on countless occasions, has criticised football clubs for their failure to take any responsibility for the violent behaviour of their fans. The clubs always argue that there were mitigating circumstances for the displays of hooliganism – either the referee had provoked them with ‘biased’ decisions or the policing...
‘There are no friendly games in Cyprus’ Cyprus

‘There are no friendly games in Cyprus’

July 16th, 2013 By Peter Stevenson THE 20-YEAR-OLD man severely injured in Larnaca on Friday night after trouble broke out between Anorthosis and Apollon fans during a friendly match, is still in the intensive care unit of Nicosia general hospital although doctors have downgraded his status from critical to severe. Nine Apollon fans were arrested...
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