Over 100 incidents met the legal criteria for filing case reports to initiate enforcement action.
Although detection tools have improved, SMPS noted that “data trends indicate a worrying trajectory of racially motivated abuse.”
Players from the Netherlands who missed penalties in the last‑32 shootout loss to Morocco on Monday were targeted with racist abuse.
The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) reported that Justin Kluivert, Quinten Timber and Crysencio Summerville received discriminatory, racist and hateful messages on social media.
More than six million posts and comments were examined — a 33% rise — with 225,000 flagged for human review.
Approximately 1,000 accounts were singled out for further investigation and 181,000 hateful comments were concealed.
