Subculture of "Scarfers" ("Avid Supporters") and the Safety of Sport Events

Abstract

To make a sport event safe, three basic conditions must be met: suitably equipped stadium, professional security and properly behaving audience. Among the spectators, especially of football matches, there can often be found so-called "scarfers". It is a subculture which members can be creative, but sometimes they are dangerous, leading to distortions of a sporting spectacle. Fighting them is, first of all, to enforce law and to provide properly working security systems for mass sport events. It is also the cooperation of the police from different countries, because along with the integration processes of countries, some stadium hooligans also integrate, causing more and more problems reaching beyond national borders.