British and German police said 26 people were arrested in Nuremberg where England beat Trinidad and Tobago in a crucial World Cup match.

"It was a big success," Nuremberg Police Deputy Chief Mark Huennemeyer told The Associated Press on Friday, adding that none of the arrests involved hooliganism or severe fan violence.

"We have been together with our colleagues from England -- the Bobbies -- and that worked well."

British police said 16 England fans were arrested at the Franken Stadium, where England won 2-0 to ensure it advanced to the next round, for trying to scale a stadium fence and being in unauthorized areas.

Another 10 people were detained in the city for scuffles and theft, along with one person for public drunkenness.

British nationals accounted for nearly 50 of the 1,500 people arrested across Germany since the World Cup started last week, said Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Thomas, who is leading the British police contingent at the tournament.

To head off trouble, authorities across Europe confiscated passports of known troublemakers, increased border patrols and drew up extensive policing plans for the dozen game cities.

While Nuremberg experienced no problems, other cities have not been as fortunate.

In the northern port city of Bremerhaven, police used tear gas late Wednesday to break up rioters, after they threw bottles into a crowd watching a public screening of Germany's 1-0 win over Poland and lightly injured several fans, police spokesman Uwe Mikloweit said. Five people were issued written summons and nine were banned from the public screening area.

In Dortmund, a torrent of thrown bottles and chairs erupted. Of the 429 fans arrested Wednesday, 278 were German, 119 were Polish and the others came from different European countries that were not listed separately. All but three of them were released by Thursday.

"From our point of view, that chapter is closed," said Germany 2006 vice president Wolfgang Niersbach said the Dortmund trouble. "Now the atmosphere can hardly be matched."

Niersbach commended the "exemplary behavior" of the traveling England fans.

"To have 60,000 or 70,000 English fans and no real trouble was tremendous."