Open AccessSecurity Systems to Preventing Misbehavior Among Football Fans in Malaysia: How Effective It Is?
Author(s) -
Nur Hafizah Yusoff,
Zurinah Tahir,
Shahidah Hamzah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1529/2/022009
Subject(s) - stadium , football , league , computer security , aggression , advertising , order (exchange) , engineering , political science , business , law , psychology , computer science , social psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , finance , astronomy
Issue on football fans in not new, since decades many researches has been debate on it. Hooliganism, violence and aggression always fall into the debates. Although Malaysia national football team is not on top ranking of the world, but the local league has big supporters here. They are numbers of fans involved with misbehavior while at the stadium. The objective of the paper is to determine on how effective of security systems to prevent misbehavior among football fans in Malaysia. A survey was conducted at the fourth different stadiums. A total of 600 football fans were participated as respondents. The results show that the existence of security systems in Malaysia stadium still not really effective to prevent misbehavior among the fans. Smuggling prohibited items, no holistic body check and numbers of violence fan arrested is very low. In order to make sure football is safe to watch for everyone, the security systems need to enhance. The state football management and the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) need to collaborate on improving the security systems at the stadium.