The Premier League has revealed that it seized more than 160,000 counterfeit items worth more than UK5 million (US$6 million) over the course of the 2018/19 campaign, reports, www.sportspromedia.com/.
The league's Anti-Counterfeiting Programme, which targets the online and offline sale and distribution of fake Premier League merchandise, also removed more than 270,000 marketplace listings during last season, accounting for over UK740,000 (US$893,000).
Since its formation in 2007, the Premier League's Anti-Counterfeiting Programme has now recovered fake products worth a total close to UK30 million (US$36.2 million). The figure does not include clubs' own seizures and those of kit manufacturers.
Last year the Premier League hailed the single largest seizure since the inception of its anti-counterfeiting initiative when Seoul Customs intercepted 400,000 fake items arriving on a shipment from China. The haul, which had a street value of UK4.6 million (US$5.6 million), included fake badges and kits.
