Slavia prague football club and its ultras: 125 years of pride and passion

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Associate Professor P. Scholz1
Postgraduate student E.V. Gorokhova2
1College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Czech Republic
2Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

The study analyses attitudes of football ultras (supporters) to different aggressive behaviours at the football stadiums in the Czech Republic. The study data were obtained by a questionnaire survey (in PAPI format) on Aden Arena Stadium in Prague in 2015-2016, with the active ultras population (n=158 aged 23.01±10.11 years) being subject to the survey. The survey found that 56.96% of the sample rating vandalism (including damage to sport assets) as the most serious outburst of violence during football matches; with 15.19% of the sample confessing being prone to such outbursts. Furthermore, 87.34% tend to accept the noise of disapproval as no problem, with 94.94% of the sample confessed verbally offending the referees during football matches. The under-23-year-old group of ultras was found more tolerant to the sociopathic behaviour at the stadium.

Keywords: football, negative phenomena, questionnaire, football supporters, violence.

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