In 1985, the European Cup soccer final descended into chaos. At Belgium’s Heysel Stadium, supporters of England’s Liverpool team broke through a barrier separating them from supporters of their ...

In the months before Euro 2004 in Portugal, pundits predicted an epidemic of violence. In the previous two European international tournaments—Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, and the 1998 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While living in England in the 1980s, the American writer and editor Bill Buford did an astonishing thing. He embedded himself in ...

Russian soccer fans clashed with police and Poland supporters in separate incidents in Warsaw on Tuesday, just hours before the two teams met in a Euro 2012 match. In what appeared to be the most ...

Two English soccer fans were convicted by a French court on Monday of involvement in rioting and sentenced to two and three months in prison. The convictions in a packed Marseille courtroom came just ...

SHEFFIELD, England, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Soccer hooligans can expect swift police action if they try to make trouble at this summer's World Cup finals in Russia where authorities are already putting ...

PARIS – French authorities bracing for more hooligan violence in the north of the country involving Russian and English troublemakers say they have turned away 14 suspected hooligans who were trying ...

PARIS – Hooliganism is making a comeback, and the timing could be bad with four high-risk matches in the first week of the European Championship in a country where the police force is already under ...