Racism and violence remains a major challenge for football, UEFA president Michel Platini said Tuesday.
The former France international, who witnessed the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985 as a player for Juventus, said he had seen "certain images that I thought were a thing of the past."
Platini, speaking at the opening of the annual congress of European football's organizing body in Vienna, called for tougher stadium bans across Europe and a "European sports police force" to help combat hooliganism.
Greater awareness was needed from public authorities "so that we can avoid reliving the dark days of a not-so-distant past - a past where hooligans and all manner of fanatics called the shots in certain European stadiums."
He added: "Some of us experienced that past at first hand. In my case, it was exactly 30 years ago."
Platini, 59, scored the only goal of the 1985 European Cup final against Liverpool in Brussels. The match went ahead after 39 fans died in a crush following fan clashes in the stadium.
He was due to be re-elected unopposed at the congress for a third four-year term as UEFA president.
UEFA meanwhile increased its income from the Champions League in the 2013-2014 season to 1.445 billion euros, up from 1,424 billion, the congress was told.
Earnings from the Europe League over the same period rose from 242 million to 247 million.
