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Added on: 26th Jul 2015

 

PORT SAID STADIUM RIOT

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The Port Said Stadium Riot is a massive riot that happened on February 1,

2012 at Port Said Stadium in Port Said, Egypt. After the Egyptian premier

league football match between Al-Masry and Al-Ahly clubs, fans of

Al-Masry started to attack the fans of Al-Ahly with knives, stones,

bottles and other objects, causing the deaths of 79 people.

 

 

ESTADIO MATEO FLORES DISASTER

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A few moments before the opening of the 1998 FIFA World Cup

qualification match between Guatemala and Costa Rica at the Estadio

Mateo Flores on October 16, 1996, thousands of fans forced their way

into the General Sur section of the stadium. The poor design of the

stadium and the excessive number of fans who attempted to enter

caused a human avalanche that killed 83 and injured 140 people.

 

 

KATHMANDU STADIUM DISASTER

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Around 93 people were killed and 100 more were injured during the

Kathmandu Stadium Disaster when fans attempted to flee from a

hailstorm inside the national Dasarath Rangasala Stadium.

 

 

HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER

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The Hillsborough Disaster took place on April 15, 1989 at the

Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. Overcrowding in the

stadium caused fans to climb over side fences just to be able to

witness the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham

Forest football clubs. Because of the chaos, a crush barrier broke off

and fans started to fall on top of each other, causing the deaths

of 96 people.

 

 

COLOURFUL 11 TRAGEDY

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On June 7, 1989, Suriname Airways Flight 764 was carrying a group of

Surinamese/Dutch footballers from Amsterdam when it crashed

approaching the Paramaribo Zanderiji Airport in Suriname. The Colourful

11 team as it was known was coming back from a friendly football match

in Holland when most of their players were killed.

 

 

PAKHTAKOR TASHKENT FC TRAGEDY

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Sometime in August 1979, all members of the Uzbek professional

football club Pakhtakor Tashkent FC and several others got killed in a

mid-air collision over Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine. The air disaster occurred

as the team was heading back to the Soviet Top League.

All 178 people aboard died in the accident.

 

 

ESTADIO NACIONAL DISASTER

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More commonly known as the Lima football riot, the Estadio Nacional

Disaster happened on May 24, 1964 during a playoff game between

Peru and Argentina at the National Stadium. The chaos began following

the annulment of a goal by Peru when Argentina was already winning

one - nil. The fans were angered and the police started to fire tear gas

to prevent them from going into the field. This eventually

resulted in the death of around 318 people.

 

 

LUZHNIKI DISASTER

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This disaster took place at the Grand Sports Arena of the Central Lenin

Stadium in Russia on October 20, 1982, during the UEFA Cup second

round match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem. According

to reports, the stampede started after a young woman who had lost her

shoe on the stairs stopped and tried to retrieve her shoe. The people

behind her also stopped and tried to help her look for her shoe, but

the dense crowd began to stumble over one another like dominos.

Around 340 fans of the FC Spartak Moscow died in the stampede.

 


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