Heysel Stadium disaster

When

29 May 1985

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

50.90° N, 4.33° E

Description

spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium on 29 May 1985

Deaths

39

Injured

400

Cause

crowd collapses and crushes

Fatal spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium in 1985

The Heysel Stadium disaster 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 wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup final. The stadium was in need of maintenance and had not been adequately updated.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus (0–1)…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Heysel Faciası: Juventus ve Liverpool arasında oynanacak UEFA Şampiyonlar Ligi finali öncesinde İngiliz holiganların İtalyan taraftarlara saldırması sonucu…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Belgien”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “drame du Heysel”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Эйзельская трагедия в Брюсселе (Бельгия): 39 болельщиков погибло и сотни получили травмы в результате обрушения трибуны во время финального матча Кубок…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el estadio de Heysel de Bruselas (Bélgica) mueren 39 aficionados a causa de una avalancha de aficionados en los prolegómenos de la final de la Copa de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ヘイゼルの悲劇。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page