List of disasters in football stadiums

This article gives an overview of all disasters that have occurred in football stadiums worldwide .

List of disasters

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date	country	city	game	dead	Remarks
04/05/1902	Scotland	Glasgow	Scotland - England	25 dead	Collapse of a grandstand
March 9, 1946	England	Bolton	Bolton Wanderers - Stoke City (FA Cup)	33 dead	The boundary wall collapsed
03/30/1955	Chile	Santiago de Chile	Chile - Argentina ( Campeonato Sudamericano 1955 )	6 dead
April 1961	Chile	Santiago de Chile	Chile - Brazil	5 dead	Railing breaks
May 24, 1964	Peru	Lima	Peru - Argentina (Olympic Qualification)	350 dead, 500 injured	Mass panic
05.10.1965	South Korea	Gwangju	?	16 dead	Fans are demanding entry into the crowded stadium
October 27, 1966	Nicaragua	Managua	?	12 dead	Crowd at the exits after the end of the game
09/17/1967	Turkey	Kayseri	Kayserispor - Sivasspor	43 dead, 600 injured	Riots after a controversial goal
06/23/1968	Argentina	Buenos Aires	River Plate - Boca Juniors	74 dead, 150 injured	Panic at the end of the game
06.10.1969	DR Congo	Bukavu	?	27 dead, 107 injured	Mass panic
01/02/1971	Scotland	Glasgow	Celtic Rangers	66 dead	Mass panic
03/04/1971	Brazil	Salvador	Second division game	4 dead	brawl
02/17/1974	Egypt	Cairo	Zamalek SC - Dukla Prague	49 dead	Mass panic
December 06, 1976	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Haiti v Cuba (World Cup qualification)	5 dead	Mass panic from fireworks
04/01/1977	Germany	Hamburg	Hamburger SV - Bayern Munich	1 dead	Mass fall in the west curve
09/16/1979	Indonesia	Medan	?	12 dead
02/08/1981	Greece	Athens	Olympiacos Piraeus - AEK Athens	21 dead	closed exit gate
11/18/1981	Colombia	Ibagué	?	17 dead	Grandstand collapse
10/20/1982	Soviet Union	Moscow	Spartak Moscow - HFC Haarlem	66 dead	Mass panic
11/18/1982	Colombia	Cali	América de Cali - Deportivo Cali	24 dead	Mass panic
11/27/1982	Algeria	Algiers	?	8 dead	Grandstand collapse
05/11/1985	England	Bradford	Bradford City - Lincoln City	56 dead	Fire in a wooden grandstand
May 27, 1985	Mexico	Mexico city	?	10 dead
05/29/1985	Belgium	Brussels	Juventus Turin - Liverpool FC (European Cup Final)	39 dead	Riots, mass panic, the collapse of a boundary wall
03/10/1988	Libya	Tripoli	Libya - Malta	30 dead	Collapse of a grandstand
03/12/1988	Nepal	Kathmandu	Tribhuvan Challenge Shield Cup final	93 dead, over 100 injured	Mass panic after hailstorm
04/15/1989	England	Sheffield	Liverpool - Nottingham Forest (FA Cup Semi-Finals)	96 dead, 766 injured	Crowds in the overcrowded standing room, serious mistakes by the police
01/13/1991	South Africa	Orkney	Orlando Pirates - Kaizer Chiefs	42 dead	Mass panic
05/05/1992	France	Bastia	SC Bastia - Olympique de Marseille (Cup semi-finals)	15 dead, 1,300 injured	Collapse of an additional grandstand
06/03/1995	Honduras	Puerto Lempira	?	16 dead, 38 injured	lightning strike
06/16/1996	Zambia	Lusaka	Zambia v Sudan (World Cup qualification)	15 dead	Mass panic when leaving the stadium
07/09/1996	Libya	Tripoli	?	70 dead	Riots after a controversial referee decision
10/16/1996	Guatemala	Guatemala City	Guatemala - Costa Rica (World Cup qualification)	84 dead	Mass rush to overcrowded grandstands
04/06/1997	Nigeria	Lagos	Nigeria v Egypt (World Cup qualification)	5 dead	Locked exits
09/26/1997	Germany	Halle (Saale)	Hallescher FC - VfL Hall 96	4 dead	Parachutist, who is supposed to bring the ball, falls with an unopened parachute into the crowd in the checkout area
11/29/1998	Argentina	Buenos Aires	?	1 dead	Firearm at championship celebration
06/15/1999	Tunisia	Be yes	Cup semi-finals	3 dead
10/30/1999	Yugoslavia	Belgrade	Red Star - Partizan	1 dead	A 17-year-old fan is hit by a flare rocket
01/11/1999	Egypt	Alexandria	?	8 dead	Mass panic
04/23/2000	Liberia	Monrovia	Liberia - Chad (World Cup qualification)	3 dead	crowded stadium
07/09/2000	Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwe - South Africa (World Cup Qualification)	13 dead	Mass panic due to excessive police action
04/11/2001	South Africa	Johannesburg	Kaizer Chiefs - Orlando Pirates	47 dead	Mass panic in a crowded stadium
05/09/2001	Ghana	Accra	Accra Hearts of Oak - Kumasi Ashanti Kotoko	126 dead, 150 injured	Riots, mass panic, excessive police action
06/03/2007	Zambia	Chilli bombwe	Zambia - Congo	12 dead
09/19/2008	DR Congo	Butembo	Socozaki - Nyuki system	13 dead, 36 or 54 injured
03/29/2009	Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Ivory Coast - Malawi (World Cup qualification)	19 dead, 132 injured
02/01/2012	Egypt	Port Said	al Ahly Cairo - al-Masry	74 dead, 1,000 injured	Violent rioting
11/13/2015	France	Saint-Denis	France - Germany	2 dead	two explosions in front of the national stadium Stade de France
02/10/2017	Angola	Uíge	Santa Rita de Cássia FC - Clube Recreativo Desportivo do Libolo	17 dead, 59 injured	Mass panic

consequences

The mass accidents often sparked discussions about safety in the stadiums. After the Hillsborough disaster on April 15, 1989, the Taylor Report recommended that all standing room be abolished and the stadiums converted into pure seating arenas. In England this has been done from 1994, FIFA and UEFA followed suit. It was not until 2017 that the first English clubs applied to be allowed to introduce so-called safe standing .

literature

• Gates and dead . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1979 ( online ).

Web links

• Death in the stadium: the worst disasters since 1946 . Spiegel Online , April 13, 2001; Retrieved May 29, 2014
• Football stadium disasters: Heysel, Hillsborough, Bradford . Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 2, 2012; Retrieved May 29, 2014
• The greatest football disasters . Rheinische Post Online; Retrieved May 29, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 93 The Stampede in Nepal Stadium: Soccer Fans Rush to Locked Exits in Sudden Hailstorm. Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1988, accessed October 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Bastia, Stade Furiani, May 5, 1992 , tagesspiegel.de
3. ^ Con la tragedia en la memoria ( Memento of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Fabian Lamster: The stadium accident in Halle. May 3, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 . 
5. ^ Nomvethe remembers April 11, 2001 , kaizerchiefs.com
6. ↑ May 9 2001 - When the beautiful game became ugly in Ghana , goal.com
7. ↑ 2008 Congo football riots , books.google.de
8. ↑ Stadium drama in Africa - 19 dead! , bild.de
9. ↑ Egypt wants to execute eleven football fans , sueddeutsche.de
10. ↑ Two goals and two bombs , sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de
11. ↑ Mass panic in football stadium in Angola: more dead in clinic? , tz.de
12. ^ Safe standing: League One side Shrewsbury Town first in England to apply for rail seats. bbc.com, June 27, 2017, accessed June 27, 2017 .