Football hooliganism issue has become a common incident today in Ethiopia and a focus area rnfor Ethiopian print media. The media have a remarkable power for predicting the seriousness rnand providing awareness creation to football hooliganism problems in the society. Hence, the rnpurpose of this study was to examine how football hooliganism issue was reported specifically in rnAddis Zemen newspaper. This study utilized both quantitative and qualitative research method to rnexamine the coverage of football hooliganism in the newspaper. The sampled newspaper was rnpurposely selected based on national newspaper/ its accessibility to reach large audience and rnbased on daily newspaper/ timeliness to cover the stories within a day when it occurs; as a result rnit insures that the message is current and relevant. The sampled period was covered 9 months rnfrom November 2018 to July 2019. This period was selected because; during this time high rnfootball hooliganism incidents were occurred. The researcher prepared four research questions rnto meet the objectives of this study. To answer these questions the researcher has employed rnquantitative content analysis and in depth interview techniques. A quantitative content analysis rnwas used to gather the data from the analyzed newspaper. In-depth interviews were also rnconducted with two sport journalists and a sport editor of the newspaper. The results revealed rnthat Addis Zemen newspaper used different frames and sources in covering football hooliganism. rnConsequently, responsibility frame was dominantly used with 28.57%. Conflict, diagnostic and rnprognostic frames were moderately used. But morality frame was the least used frame with rn3.57%. Likewise, feature stories were the most frequently covered story types with 42.86%rnwhereas news stories were at the least level with 25%. Equally important, the significant rnnumbers of the stories were covered at the back page of the newspaper with 53.57%. But there rnwas no coverage on the front page. Moreover, the newspaper was dominantly relied on rnfederation and research document sources with 35.71% each. Government officials and rnMeetings & workshops were used to in a limited extent. But police, victims and individual rnsources were not used in the newspaper. Concerning tones, negative tone was dominantly rnobserved with 46.43%. It is recommended that the newspaper must give attention to use balance rnsources and focuses on causes and solutions of the problem in coverage of football hooliganism rnin Ethiopia.