HC Deb 23 October 1989 vol 158 cc289-91W
Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has as to how many people were arrested during the 1988–89 season at the grounds of each of the clubs playing in each of the four divisions of the Football League; and what are the comparable statistics for the previous two seasons.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) collate the number of arrests made at Football League matches in England and Wales. The table shows ACPO's figures for arrests at home games of league clubs according to their division in the 1988–89 season. The figures do not distinguish between arrests of home or away spectators. Such figures are not collated centrally, nor are any relating to the outcome of these arrests.

Division 1
1988–89 1987–88 1986–87
Arsenal 167 153 79
Aston Villa 344 308 202
Charlton Athletic 47 14 33
Coventry City 190 194 96
Derby County 132 86 61
Everton 80 24 67
Liverpool 132 33 86
Luton Town 7 1 —
Manchester United 60 38 25
Middlesbrough 86 110 14
Millwall 160 44 20
Newcastle United 166 149 136
Norwich City 86 32 66
Notts Forest 66 130 98
Queens Park Rangers 95 91 127
Sheffield Wednesday 80 90 101
Southampton 146 208 85
Tottenham Hotspur 127 74 80
West Ham United 201 149 144
Wimbledon 17 49 35
Division 2
1988–89 1987–88 1986–87
Barnsley 21 55 76
Birmingham City 65 101 66
Blackburn Rovers 37 79 80
Bournemouth 35 149 28
Bradford City 85 197 115
Brighton 47 34 5
Chelsea 304 271 222
Crystal Palace 71 78 61
Hull City 18 38 51
Ipswich Town 31 99 45
Leeds United 159 184 182
Leicester City 95 31 197
Manchester City 39 35 23
Oldham Athletic 12 19 13
Oxford United 36 105 88
Portsmouth 162 282 65
Plymouth Argyle 19 29 49
Shrewsbury 37 68 41
Stoke City 44 57 73
Sunderland 49 80 140
Swindon Town 44 67 48
Walsall 148 47 95
Watford 44 43 18
West Bromwich Albion 145 132 142
Division 3
1988–89 1987–88 1986–87
Aldershot 65 39 29
Blackpool 66 36 104
Bolton Wanderers 40 21 20
Brentford 50 72 11
Bristol City 73 21 46
Bristol Rovers 67 18 7
Bury 27 5 11
Cardiff 16 43 27
Chester 20 22 49
Chesterfield 44 21 17
Fulham 126 99 41
Gillingham 23 32 9
Huddersfield 34 126 100
Mansfield 40 21 31
Northampton 3 11 57
Notts County 49 56 13
Port Vale 79 22 54
Preston North End 51 20 66
Reading 25 20 114
Sheffield United 50 60 53
Southend 30 3 —
Swansea 51 10 14
Wigan 4 4 24
Wolverhampton 192 132 117
Division 4
1988–89 1987–88 1986–87
Burnley 47 90 22
Cambridge 17 29 49
Carlisle 17 27 24
Colchester 7 — 8
Crewe 30 21 41
Darlington 26 5 101
Doncaster 20 28 35
Exeter 12 83 61
Grimsby 79 66 156
Halifax 62 38 19
Hartlepool 21 21 29
Hereford 28 28 53
Leyton Orient 8 8 15
Lincoln 19 — 9
Peterborough 14 15 28
Rochdale 47 32 59
Rotherham 31 47 54
Scarborough 51 146 —
Scunthorpe 55 46 49
Stockport 53 17 —
1988–89 1987–88 1986–87
Torquay 16 21 94
Tranmere 20 53 7
Wrexham 12 17 25
York 132 62 37
Newport County (no longer in the Football League) — 35 53

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