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Lots of you may enjoy playing football after school or on the weekends.
But for some kids, the crowd can sometimes make it a bit less fun.

In 2025, the Suffolk Football Association conducted a survey of 150 kids, and 15% of those children said they didn't feel safe at football matches.

Campaigns have sprung up to try and address this. One of them is Don't Come If. It's been founded by Active Suffolk and it supports kids who don't want adults to come to their matches if they're going to shout, get angry, or be anything less than completely positive.

Emma Louise went to a football club which is working with the campaign to see what it was all about.

But it's not just one club that feels it's an issue.

Teams up and down the country have joined national campaigns to try and send negative people off from the sidelines.

The Silent Support Weekend is one of them. It's a national initiative that was started by England Football in 2025 to promote positive, pressure free environments for youth football.

It took place this year on 14 and 15 March, with more than a million players signing up to take part. The idea is to have a weekend of nothing but quiet applause at football matches, with no distracting noise from spectators on the sidelines.

There's also the Behind the Line campaign, which is run by the Football Association in Wales. It tries to improve the behaviour of crowds on the touchline, to create a nicer atmosphere for the kids playing.

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