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Major Recorded Disasters at Overseas Football Stadia

Year	Stadium	Cause	Deaths	Injuries
1957	Florence			120
1959	Naples			65
1961	Ibague, Colombia	Stand collapse	11	15
1961	Santiago, Chile	Crushing	5	c300
1964	Lima	Riot	318	1000+
1964	Istanbul	Fire		70
1966	Cairo	Riot		300
1967	Kayseri, Turkey	Riot	48	602
1968	Buenos Aires	Crushing	73	c150
1974	Cairo	Crushing	49	50
1976	Port au Prince, Haiti	Shooting	6	?
1979	Hamburg		1	15
1979	Lagos	Riot	24	27
1980	Calcutta	Riot	16	100
1981	Athens	Crushing	21	54
1982	San Luis, Brazil	Shot in riot	3	25
1982	Cali, Colombia	Stampede	24	c250
1982	Algiers Roof	collapse	10	c600
1982	Moscow	Crushing	up to 340	?
1985	Peking		NK	NK
1985	Heysel, Brussels	Riot / wall collapse	38	437
1985	Mexico City	Crushing	10	100+
1987	Tripoli, Libya		20
1988	Katmandu	Stampede in storm	93	c700
1989	Lagos	Crushing	5 ?
1990	Mogadishu	Shot in riot	7	18
1991	Orkney, Johannesburg	Crushing	42	50
1991	Nairobi	Stampede	1	24
1992	Bastia	Stand collapse	17	c1300
1992	Rio de Janeiro	Fence collapse		50+
1995	Freetown, Sierra Leone	Gate collapse		40
1996	Lusaka	Crushing	9	52
1996	Guatemala City	Crushing	78+	100+
1997	Lagos	Locked exits	5 ?
1997	Ciudad del Este, Paraguay #	Roof collapse	30+	c200
1998	Kinshasa	Troops fire on crowd	4+ ?
1999	Alexandria	Crushing on entry	8	14
2000	Harare	Crowd fleeing teargas	13	Scores
2000	Rio de Janeiro	Crushing	104
2001	Johannesburg	Crushing	43	89
2001	Seville	Fence collapse	28
2001	Lubumbashi, Congo ( Zaire)	Crowd fleeing teargas	10	51
2001	Sari, Iran	Roof collapse	2	284
2001	Ivory Coast	“Fighting”	1	39
2001	Accra, Ghana	Crowd fleeing teargas	126	93
2001	Labe, Guinea	Crushing on entry	2

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Sources

Football Stadia Advisory Design Council (1991). Football Stadia Bibliography 1980-1990. The Sports Council.

Emergency Planning College
Council of Europe
Press reports