Premier League clubs have agreed to give pitch-invading fans a minimum one-year ban from their team's home and away matches. Supporters who are found guilty of entering the pitch without permission or using smoke bombs and other pyrotechnics will receive the automatic 12-month suspension.

Pitch-invading fans face ban from Premier League encounters, policy comes into effect immediately

Field invasions in sporting events are quite popular and hilarious too. An individual or a crowd of people run onto the playing area, sometimes just for fun in crazy costumes, sometimes to meet their sporting stars and sometimes to stage protest.

Throwback: When Virat Kohli saved pitch invader from security personnel during a Test match - Watch

A fan ran on to the pitch after Portugal's 0-0 draw with Austria in Paris and posed for a selfie with Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo

UEFA opens disciplinary probes against Portugal, Hungary and Belgium

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Pitch-invading fans face ban from Premier League encounters, policy comes into effect immediately

Throwback: When Virat Kohli saved pitch invader from security personnel during a Test match - Watch

UEFA opens disciplinary probes against Portugal, Hungary and Belgium