In the Football (Offences) Act 1991 , after section 1 (designated football matches) insert—
Unauthorised entry
(1A)
(1) A person (“ P ”) commits an offence if—
(a) P enters, or attempts to enter, premises for the purpose of attending a designated football match, and
(b) at the time of entry or attempted entry, P does not have a match ticket for the match that P is eligible to use.
(2) It is a defence to prove that P had lawful authority or lawful excuse for entering, or attempting to enter, the premises.
(3) It is a defence to prove that—
(a) P entered, or attempted to enter, the premises through an entry point normally used by spectators,
(b) at the time of entry or attempted entry, P had something that they reasonably believed was a match ticket for the match, and
(c) the thing that P had—
(i) was not a match ticket for the match, or
(ii) was a match ticket for the match but P was not eligible to use it.
(4) In this section—
“ match ticket ” means a ticket or other thing (whether in physical or electronic form) which authorises a person to enter premises for the purpose of attending a designated football match;
“ premises ” includes any place.