The Premier League has revealed that it seized more than 160,000 counterfeit items worth more than UK£5 million (US$6 million) over the course of the 2018/19 campaign, reports, www.sportspromedia.com/.

The league's Anti-Counterfeiting Programme, which targets the online and offline sale and distribution of fake Premier League merchandise, also removed more than 270,000 marketplace listings during last season, accounting for over UK£740,000 (US$893,000).

Since its formation in 2007, the Premier League's Anti-Counterfeiting Programme has now recovered fake products worth a total close to UK£30 million (US$36.2 million). The figure does not include clubs' own seizures and those of kit manufacturers.

Last year the Premier League hailed the single largest seizure since the inception of its anti-counterfeiting initiative when Seoul Customs intercepted 400,000 fake items arriving on a shipment from China. The haul, which had a street value of UK£4.6 million (US$5.6 million), included fake badges and kits.