World Cup fans will need to have a valid ticket and their FAN IDs to be granted access to a World Cup stadium in Russia.

"We assume that those who were banned from attending matches will not be able to visit the [World Cup] games. We have an accurate list, with 467 people on it at the moment, including, unfortunately, 157 Muscovites. All of them were refused FAN IDs," Chernikov said at a meeting in the city's parliament.

He added that some countries participating in this year's World Cup shared with the Moscow authorities their own blacklists of hooligans.

"Of hooligans, and I highlight this, because we are not going to fight fans. On the contrary, we will help and encourage so that everything goes in a friendly and peaceful manner," Chernikov said.

He also said that the World Cup host stadiums were equipped with facial recognition security systems allowing to identify the fans.

Russia's first-ever World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 arenas in 11 cities across the country. Teams will play in Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.