Ref. 29600-27According to a Home Office report, 38 Town fans were arrested last season, including 19 at away games.

Offences included violent disorder, throwing missiles, racist chanting, pitch invasions and breach of banning orders.

Reports dating back to 2002 showed Swindon Town fans as among the most badly behaved in their division.

The football club says it not aware of many of the violent offences because they have happened away from the ground.

More than 20 fans are now banned for committing offences.

One fan faced with a ban last season was 16-year-old Liam Kerrigan who stripped off and paraded across the County Ground pitch as part of a St Patrick's Day stunt.

Ricky Stebbing, 29, will feature in next year's statistics after he leapt from the stands to save Sammy Parkin during a scuffle with Bradford's Darren Holloway earlier in October.

The run onto the pitch earned him a ban from UK football for three years and a lifetime ban from the county ground.