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The Heysel Stadium disaster (Italian: Strage dell'Heysel [ˈstraːdʒe delleiˈzɛl]; German: Katastrophe von Heysel [ˌkataˈstʁoːfə fɔn ˈhaɪzl̩]; French: Drame du Heysel [dʁam dy ɛzɛl]; Dutch: Heizeldrama [ˈɦɛizəlˌdraːmaː]) was a crowd disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 when Juventus fans were escaping from an attack by Liverpool fans while they were pressed against a ...
A 97th victim died in 2021 after suffering irreversible brain damage from the Hillsborough disaster. March 1988, Nepal A rush towards locked exits in a hailstorm at Nepal's national soccer stadium ...
The Heysel Plateau was also the location of the Heysel Stadium, Belgium's former national stadium, originally built in 1930. After the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985, which claimed the lives of 39 spectators at the European Cup final, it was demolished and in its place was built the more modern and secure King Baudouin Stadium.
The 1990–91 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Manchester United against Barcelona.The victory for United was significant as it was the season English clubs returned to European football, after completing a five-year ban as a result of the Heysel Stadium disaster.
The gestures were made to taunt the home fans about the Heysel stadium disaster, when 39 Juventus fans died in a crush before the club’s European Cup final against Liverpool in May 1985.
March 13, 1988 — Ninety-three people are killed when thousands of soccer fans surge into locked stadium exits to escape a sudden hailstorm in Kathmandu, Nepal. A look at some of the world's ...
Heysel Stadium disaster; 2009 Houphouët-Boigny stampede; K. ... Oppenheimer Stadium disaster; P. Port Said Stadium riot; Q. Querétaro–Atlas riot; Z. 2024 Zhuhai ...
The 1985 European Cup final was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Juventus of Italy on 29 May 1985 at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium.It was the final match of the 1984–85 season of the European Cup, Europe's premier cup competition.