Just In – Coventry City arrests and banning orders put club in top 35 across England and Wales

Manchester United had the next highest number of arrests with a total of 83. Leeds United have the next most with 69, followed by Manchester City with 66, Arsenal with 51, Tottenham with 51 and Burnley with 50.

There were a total of 2,264 football-related arrests in the top five divisions in England and Wales last season. That’s up from 2,198 the season before.

It’s also the highest number since the 2013/14 season when there were 2,273. However, football matches had a combined attendance of 45.4 million people last season according to the Home Office figures. That suggests an arrest rate of just 0.005%, or five arrests for every 100,000 people.

Incidents of hate crime fell at football matches last season. A total of 370 hate crimes were reported to police, down from 384 the season before.

Race hate crimes made up 248 of the total last season, down from 383 the season before. Sexual orientation hate crime was up to 119 incidents though from 106 the season before.

Religious hate crime increased from 14 to 21 last season, while disability hate crime rose from eight to 15, and gender identity from three to four. The number of active banning orders rose last season from 1,3088 to 1,624, with 682 new ones being issued. That’s the highest number of new banning orders since 2011 when 960 were issued.