Sport is an indispensable part of society, and the most popular sport today is football. Violence has accompanied sport since its very beginnings, and the most common type is fan violence. With the growing popularity of football, it increasingly attracted large masses of spectators in stadiums, thus there were more and more fan disorders and violence. It escalated in the 1960s in England and began to spread across Europe under the name of football hooliganism. Football hooliganism is a social problem because fan violence crosses the boundaries of football stadiums and affects other levels of society. Therefore, it is important to establish a quality legislative framework at both international and national levels. Numerous international acts have been adopted with the aim of combating hooliganism, and the importance of this fight has been recognized by most European countries. England is a country that is considered an example of successfully dealing with the problem of hooliganism, thus many countries have created their legislation based on the English one. In Croatia, the problem of hooliganism began to be significant due to the economic, social and political crisis in Yugoslavia, and the problem has continued during Croatian independence. As the problem of hooliganism is not only a problem of football, but also of society itself, it needs to be approached from several aspects. In solving this problem, an interdisciplinary approach is crucial, which opens up possibilities for actions within social policies.