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Disabling "Site Creation" from sharepoint admin center, still allowing users to create modern sites
Inside our sharepoint admin center >> Setting >> we have site creation as hidden, as follow:- but the interesting things is that end users are still able to create SharePoint modern team...
You also need to restrict them from creating Office 365 groups to prevent this.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-ie%252farticle%252fManage-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618&view=o365-worldwide
This also obviously disables the ability to create planner plans, Teams etc. as well so keep that in mind but this will turn the create option off in SharePoint.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-ie%252farticle%252fManage-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618&view=o365-worldwide
This also obviously disables the ability to create planner plans, Teams etc. as well so keep that in mind but this will turn the create option off in SharePoint.