NINETEEN East Lancashire football hooligans have been banned from the World Cup next month as part of a nationwide drive to stop English troublemakers travelling to Japan and Korea.

Fourteen are Burnley FC fans and five support Blackburn Rovers, police say.

They are among 1,000 known hooligans across the country to face the ban -- a tenfold increase in the number who were barred from Euro 2000.

The fans will be required to surrender their passports in the next five days and will not get them back until the end of the tournament.

A police spokesman said the fans would also be called to report to local police stations at intervals throughout the competition.

Bryan Drew, of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, which is masterminding the operation, said the fans who were being required to surrender their passports either had previous hooligan convictions or were suspected by police of planning violence at the World Cup.

They face up to six months in jail if they disobey the order.

Around 8,000 English fans are expected to travel to Japan, where England will play their qualifying matches. Of those 2,000 are expected to travel without tickets, but will face an intensive security operation. English police will be at airports and ports and will have spotters on the streets of Japan and Korea.

The banning orders on the East Lancashire fans were made under the Football Disorder Act 2000, which came into force after Euro 2000.