football hooliganism

English

Etymology

From football hooligan +‎ -ism.

Noun

football hooliganism (uncountable)

1. (UK) Fighting at soccer games by football hooligans.
   • 2004, John Horne, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People's Game in East Asia, →ISBN:

     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.

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

     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.