Each season, 12,600 acts of violence are reported on amateur football pitches. This is a significant figure, but still small compared to the 780,000 official matches played. The identification of violent acts by the Observatoire des Comportements' at the French Football Federation revealed a number of famous clubs known as problem clubs,' involved repeatedly in verbal and physical confrontations surrounding the matches. Even if their bad reputation is not always merited, it poses a simple problem: the significance of violent phenomena. Ignorance of the other, the construction of an antagonist identity, the process of rejection, and provocations accompany these matches. Even when these young people behave well, they are the objects of suspicion and rejection, which leads them, through challenge, revenge, or provocation, to behave in a violent manner. The violence thus has an affirmative as well as a confirmatory function and becomes a means of reversing the stigma. Chaque saison, 12 600 faits de violences sont recenses sur les terrains de football amateur. Chiffre important mais neanmoins derisoire au regard des 780 000 rencontres officielles jouees. Le recensement des faits violents au sein de l'Observatoire des Comportements gere par la Federation Francaise de Football fait apparaitre un certain nombre de clubs reputes << a problemes >> impliques de maniere recurrente dans les affrontements verbaux et physiques qui entourent les rencontres. Sans etre toujours usurpee cette mauvaise reputation pose un probleme simple : celui de la signification des phenomenes violents. Meconnaissance de l'autre, construction identitaire antagoniste, processus de rejets, provocations accompagnent les rencontres. Quand bien meme ces jeunes se comportent bien, ils font l'objet de defiance et de rejet les conduisant par defi, provocation ou vengeance a se comporter de maniere violente. La violence a alors une fonction affirmatrice tout autant que confirmatoire et devient un moyen de renversement stigmate.
