After the European Championship final, the Englishmen who missed their penalties in the final against Italy (Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukay Saka) were hit by large numbers of racist attacks, which led to legal action.
But they were far from alone in suffering from online racism.
A report presented by Fifa today showed that more than half of the players who participated in the finals of last year's European Championships and the African Championships suffered discrimination online.
Many homophobic attacks
The report has analyzed a total of 406,987 posts on Twitter and Instagram, and found that no less than just over 55 percent of players received some form of harassment.
The two most common forms of harassment were either homophobic (40 percent) and racist (38 percent).
Many can be identified
It also showed that the above mentioned English players were the most exposed during the European Championships, while an Egyptian player was the most exposed during the African Championships.
The report also shows that as many as 90 percent of the accounts that have written posts of a harassing nature can be identified, or have a very high probability of being identified.
- Unfortunately, there is a trend where a certain percentage of posts on social media directed directly at players, coaches, referees and teams are not acceptable.
And this form of discrimination - just like any other form of discrimination - has no place in football, says Fifa president Gianni Infantino in a statement.