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The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve. IFR is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department...

• Updated: 14 November 2025

Terms of reference of the Review of the Future of Women’s Football which will focus on 3 key themes.

• Updated: 21 July 2023

Pubs across the country set to benefit from extensions to licensing hours, special screenings and pavement pints as the country gears up for the World Cup

• Updated: 8 June 2026

This collection brings together all statistical documents relating to football-related arrests and banning orders.

• Updated: 13 November 2025

FLA was responsible for ensuring safe conditions at football grounds in England and Wales. It became the Sports Ground Safety Authority in 2011.

• Updated: 15 April 2021

Lloyds Bank and the government are urging fans to Stop! Think Fraud ahead of the FIFA World Cup next month.

• Updated: 11 May 2026

Official statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders issued in the 2020 to 2021 season.

• Updated: 14 October 2021

Official statistics on football-related arrests, football banning orders, reported incidents at football matches and online hate crime connected to football.

• Updated: 13 November 2025

Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders issued over the 2014 to 2015 season.

• Updated: 3 August 2015

Official statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders issued in the 2017 to 2018 season.

• Updated: 15 November 2018