August 15 – Fans of Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb, sanctioned by UEFA last month for racist behaviour, are in trouble again.
Zagreb were fined €25,000 ($33,200) and ordered to close part of their stadium for one match following an early-season Champions League qualifier against Luxembourg’s CS Fola Esch.
But according to European supporters’ group FARE, Zagreb fans were involved in three separate episodes of discriminatory and racist behaviour in the same month.
They weren’t the only ones. According to FARE, fans of Hungarian club Gyor were reported over anti-Semitic behaviour when their team faced Israel’s Maccabi tel Aviv while Honved supporters, also from Hungary, repeatedly targeted a Cameroonian player with monkey chants in another game.
In total, FARE said 14 incidents of “racism, xenophobia, extreme nationalism or homophobia”, almost all involving Eastern European fans, were reported to them through eye-witness or media accounts.
“This list is only likely to reflect a proportion of the incidents that occurred,” it said, adding that the incidents at matches in European club competition had been reported to UEFA.
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