The Challenges of Criminal Law with regard to Athlete's Violence in Soccer

In recent years, the different fields of sports, especially the soccer, have stepped away from the real purpose of doing sport including keeping healthy body and having fun; instead, it has turned into violence and far-reaching conflicts. History of soccer is full of aggressive and sorrowful scenes which are less than consistent with the goals and functions of this field of sport. In this regard, available statistics considering the incidence of this abnormal phenomenon in soccer indicate that criminal law has confronted with some challenges which deprived it of using its all power and tools to fight against violence in sport. It has been attempted in this article to differentiate the legal and illegal violence and state each characteristics while it has been also tried to clarify the obstacles and problems of criminal law in fighting against athletes’ violence in soccer.