football hooliganism

noun

Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.

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Meanings

nounfootball hooliganism (uncountable)
  1. UKuncountableFighting at soccer games by football hooligans.

    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.

    2010, Earl Smith -, Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, →ISBN, page 24
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    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.

    2004, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia, →ISBN

Origin

From football hooligan + -ism.

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football hooliganism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/football%20hooliganism

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Chicago

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