Karaiskakis Stadium disaster

When

8 Feb 1981

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

37.95° N, 23.66° E

Description

1981 fatal incident in Piraeus, Greece

Deaths

21

Cause

crowd collapses and crushes

1981 fatal incident in Piraeus, Greece

The Karaiskakis Stadium disaster, also called the Gate 7 Tragedy, was an incident that occurred on 8 February 1981 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Piraeus, Greece, after the conclusion of a football match between Olympiacos and AEK Athens. It is the worst football tragedy in Greece's history.

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