Football Safety Officers Association Scotland

     
 
 
 

Disasters 1980-1990

     
 
February, 1981, Piraes, Greece

24 killed in an end of match stampede for exits.

Greek FA
Stadia in Greece

 

 

 
     
     
     
 
1981, Ibague, Columbia

18 killed and 45 injured when a wall collapsed during a match between Deportes Tolima and Deportivo Cali.

Columbian Football Federation
Deportivo Cali FC

 

 
     
   
 
July, 1982, Moscow, Russia

77 killed when fans leaving the National Stadium tried to re-enter the stands after a last minute goal in a UEFA cup tie between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem. Unofficial reports put the death toll at 340.

Russian National Stadium
Spartak Moscow FC

 
   

 

 

   
 
November, 1982, Algiers, Africa

10 killed after a concrete roof collapsed inside a stadium.

Algerian FA

 
   
   
 
November, 1982, Cali, Columbia

24 killed and 250 injured after drunken youths urinated from an upper tier of the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, provoking a stampede below.

Pascual Guerrero Stadium Info

 
   
   
 
May, 1985, Bradford, England

56 killed and more than 200 injured when fire engulfed the main stand at the Valley Parade Stadium.

Bradford City FC

 
     
     
     
 
May, 1985, Mexico City, Mexico
10 trampled to death and 29 injured when fans tried to force entry into a stadium to see a domestic match.
 
   
   
 
May, 1985, Heysel, Belgium

39 fans, mostly Italians, killed as they tried to escape rioting English supporters before the Champions Cup Final between Juventus and Liverpool at the Heysel Stadium.

The Heysel Disaster (BBC)
Royal Belgian FA
Liverpool FC
Juventus FC

 
     
     
 
March, 1988, Tripoli, Libya

30 killed and 40 injured when a stand collapsed just before half-time during a friendly international between Libya and Malta being watched by a crowd of 65,000. Fans panicked after a man brandishing a knife or gun went berserk. Hundreds rushed for the exit and a wall collapsed under their weight at the back of the stands.

     
     
 
March, 1988, Katmandu, Nepal

70 killed when a sudden electric storm provoked a stampede towards locked exits at Nepal's National Stadium during a match between Janakpur of Nepal and Muktijodha of Bangladesh.

Football Nepal

     
     
 
April, 1989, Sheffield, England

95 killed and 200 injured in Britain's worst sports disaster. Too many fans were allowed into the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough, Sheffield, crushing others against the perimeter fence at an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forrest. The total number of deaths became 96 when Tony Bland died after being in a coma for almost four years.

Hillsborough Tribute

     
     
 
May, 1989, Lagos, Nigeria
12 killed and a player died on the field during a World Cup tie between Nigeria and Angola. Nigerian winger Sam Okwaaraji collapsed from exhaustion in the 82nd minute.
     
     
 
July, 1990, Mogadishu, Somalia

7 killed and 18 injured after President Mohammed Siad Barre's bodyguards opened fire to quell a disturbance.