Michel Platini highlighted sectarianism at Old Firm derbies as he pledged to tackle violence and illegal betting in his next four years as UEFA president.
Platini, who has been re-elected unopposed as UEFA chief until 2015, said there had been "incidents in far too many grounds around Europe" and praised the Scottish Football Association's stand against sectarianism.
He told the UEFA Congress in Paris: "As George Peat and Stewart Regan (president and chief executive of the SFA) so rightly put it in a recent statement on behalf of the Scottish association: there is no place in football for those who transform passion into violence and pride into sectarianism."
He added: "Every country should establish a whole battery of legal measures enabling them to ban hooligans from stadiums.
"Every country should appoint a prosecutor in charge of illegal betting and corruption in sport.
"I have started meeting the heads of state and government of countries particularly affected by this problem.
"It is important that their countries realise the seriousness of the situation and that they find a way to help us, you and their national associations."
Source: PA
