Meaning of football hooliganism | Babel Free

Definitions

Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.

UK, uncountable

Examples

“Since the 1980s Chinese professional football has developed tremendously, but the quantity and intensity of football-related social disorder, especially the visibility of football hooliganism, has also increased.”

“Religious, subnational, city-based, regional, and generation-based fault lines may draw into football hooliganism more people from higher on the social scale than tends to be the case in England.”

CEFR level