Football banning orders issued in Scotland statistics: FOI release

Information requested

You [Scottish Government] previously answered this FOI:

Football banning orders issued in Scotland statistics: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). 

Please repeat it to reflect the current situation (in terms of the club-by-club statistics) and please give overall statistics for seasons 2021/22, 22/23 and 23/24.

Response

The Scottish Government is not responsible for the collation of information on Football Banning Orders (FBOs) across Scotland. Police Scotland is the responsible body for collating and holding this information so we strongly advise that you contact them to obtain final figures for the years you are interested in. For this information Police Scotland can be contacted at foiglasgow@scotland.pnn.police.uk.

From our files we have identified that the Scottish Government holds the following information regarding the overall number of FBOs in seasons 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24. As the previous request covered up to season 2019/20 but not 2020/21 we have included that season for completeness. It is important to note that this information was provided by Police Scotland and covers the period up to 30 September 2023. The figures for the 2023/24 season are therefore not the final figures for this season. I can confirm that the Scottish Government does not hold any further information on FBOs relating to this season. As noted above, for further information on this you would be best advised to contact Police Scotland directly.

FBOs issued per season (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 - figures for each season from 1st June to 31st May)

The below table highlights the overall number of FBOs issued (on conviction) for the last three seasons as requested and also for 2020/21.

Season	FBOs issued
2020/2021	8
2021/2022	41
2022/2023	27
2023/2024	1

Figures as at 30 September 2023

Number of FBOs issued per club

We have also identified from our files, the following information held regarding the number of FBOs broken down by club. It is again important to note that these were provided by Police Scotland in May 2024 and were dated September 2023 (these only cover clubs with an active FBO, there were 65 active FBOs at that point in time).

Team Supported	Number of FBOs Issued
	Total since FBOs were introduced as part of the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006	Active
Aberdeen	51	5
Airdrieonians	10	1
Celtic	165	19
Dundee United	18	2
Falkirk	15	1
Hamilton	15	1
Heart of Midlothian	54	2
Hibernian	155	11
Inverness CT	7	1
Partick Thistle	11	2
Rangers	355	18
St Johnstone	7	2

Figures as at 30 September 2023

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