What the records say
- When
- 15 Apr 1989
- Kind
- Crowd crush
- Coordinates
- 53.41° N, 1.50° W
- Description
- incident which occurred during the FA Cup semi-final match in 1989
- Deaths
- 97
- Injured
- 766
- Cause
- crowd collapses and crushes
Hillsborough disaster
Fatal crowd crush during 1989 FA Cup semi-final
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the lives of 94 Liverpool F.C. supporters in Sheffield, England, a further…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Avrupa futbolunun en büyük trajedilerinden biri olan Hillsborough faciası, İngiltere'nin Sheffield kentinde 94 Liverpool FC taraftarının hayatını kaybetmesine…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei der Hillsborough-Katastrophe im Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield bricht beim FA-Cup-Spiel Nottingham Forest gegen FC Liverpool unter den Liverpool-Fans…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “tragédie de Hillsborough ; 95 personnes, tous supporters de Liverpool FC, sont tuées dans une cohue aux barrières du stade de Hillsborough en Sheffield,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “На стадионе «Хиллсборо» в Шеффилде в давке перед матчем между «Ливерпулем» и «Ноттингем Форест» погибли 96 болельщиков, а сотни других получили ранения;”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el Estadio Hillsborough (Inglaterra) mueren 96 personas aplastadas contra la valla de seguridad (Tragedia de Hillsborough)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “كارثة هيلزبورو أحد أكبر المآسي في تاريخ كرة القدم الأوروبية، حيث مات 96 من مشجعي نادي ليفربول الإنجليزي”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “英國謝菲爾德希斯堡球場舉行的英格蘭足總盃準決賽利物浦對諾定咸森林發生人群踩踏事件,96人死亡,希斯堡慘劇發生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イングランド・ヒルズボロでのサッカーの試合で発生したいわゆるヒルズボロの悲劇で96人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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