More than 700 banning orders were issued across the country
04:00, 31 Jul 2026
Leeds United fans roared the team on in Monday’s win over Everton(Image: Anna Gowthorpe/Shutterstock)
More Leeds United fans were banned from attending football matches last season than any other club in Yorkshire, new figures show.
Home Office data shows courts handed out 17 football banning orders to Whites supporters last season. It means there were 48 banning orders in place at the end of last season. The next highest was Middlesbrough, with nine supporters banned last year and 37 in total. Eight of Huddersfield Town’s 16 banned supporters were issued court orders last season.
A total of 701 new orders were issued across England and Wales in 2025-26, up from 685 a year earlier. That number was down from 825 the previous season. The number of football-related arrests and other police actions was down last season. There were a total of 1,964 across England and Wales last season, down from 2,037 and 2,584 across the previous two campaigns.
Just seven of the arrests made last season were due to racist and indecent chanting, down from 33 the season before. However, despite this fall, the number of racist incidents recorded by police did increase last season. There were a total of 356 racist hate crimes logged by police last season, the highest number on record. Homophobic hate crimes also reached record highs with 144 incidents last season, while religious hate crimes reached a record 28.
Here are the number of banning orders handed out to fans of Yorkshire clubs last season.
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