KICK It Out, English football’s equality and inclusion organisation published its most recent data report on racial discrimination accusations in and outside of the sport for the period 2021/22.
According to the data, 610 incidents were reported over the 2021/22 season. Out of them, 380 were related to the professional game, 159 came from grassroots, and 74 were related to incidents on social media.
Overall, the analysis shows a 41 per cent increase in reports from the grassroots game, with an eight per cent drop in reports overall.
On social media, a 38 per cent drop in social media reports, between the 2019/20 and 2021/22 seasons was found.
The number of reports during the 2021–2022 season was rather evenly distributed (60 reports per month, from August 21 to May 22), with only minor surges in January 2022 and March 2022.
Potential causes found by the organisation for this can be, the number of professional games played in January (with the commencement of the FA Cup third round) and many rescheduled matchups that fell into March.
Fan-on-player abuse was the most prevalent and made up 43 per cent of all allegations of abuse, which was recorded.
Fan-on-fan abuse made up 30 per cent of the recorded instances, making it the second most common kind of abuse.
In the past 18 months, many initiatives have been done by Kick It Out to tackle online abuse, including the introduction of a monitoring platform by the Premier League, as well as a Football Online Hate Working Group which was established in 2021.
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