Negative day for football lovers in Indonesia 0:24
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Indonesia saw the latest tragedy in a soccer stadium, in a scene that has already occurred several times, leaving the world of soccer in mourning.
These are some of the most memorable football stadium tragedies of the last 40 years.
Indonesia, October 2022
Soccer fans swarm the pitch at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, on October 1, 2022.
At least 125 people have died after chaos and violence erupted during an Indonesian league soccer match, in one of the deadliest stadium disasters of all time.
Supporters of Arema FC and rival Persebaya Surabaya, two of Indonesia's top football teams, clashed in the stands after local team Arema FC was beaten 3-2 in a match in Malang city, in East Java, police said.
Supporters of the losing team "invaded" the pitch and police fired tear gas, triggering a stampede that caused cases of suffocation, East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta said during a post-event press conference.
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More than 300 people were injured, according to Indonesian authorities, and there are fears the death toll could rise.
Cameroon, January 2022
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At least eight people were killed and 50 injured in January 2022 in Cameroon, following a stampede during the round of 16 of the African Cup of Nations.
The stampede occurred at the south entrance of the Olembe stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon's capital, as fans were trying to watch the round of 16 match, which ended in a 2-1 victory for Cameroon.
“If [the door] was open, [spectators] would have entered and it was closed for inexplicable reasons,” CAF president Patrice Motsepe said at a news conference at the time.
"If that door had been open like it was supposed to, we wouldn't have had this loss of life."
Egypt, February 2012
Supporters of the Egyptian club 'Ahly Ultra' jumped a fence at the local Al Ahly stadium during demonstrations following the announcement of 21 death sentences in connection with a massacre at a soccer stadium the previous year, on January 26, in Cairo. , Egypt. The verdict was delivered during a period of high tension in Egypt, a day after the second anniversary of the start of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. (Credit: Ed Giles/Getty Images)
At least 74 people were killed in riots between team supporters that took place in February 2012 at the Port Said stadium, after the end of the football match between Al-Ahly and Port Said in Egypt.
Roughly 1,000 people were injured in the riots, 150 of them in serious condition, said health ministry spokesman Hisham Shiha, a doctor at the time.
Most of those injured have concussions and deep wounds.
Egypt's attorney general at the time charged 75 people in connection with the soccer stadium riot.
In addition, three Al-Masry club officials, nine police officers and an electrical engineer in charge of the club's Port Said stadium were described as accomplices of the perpetrators.
But in January 2013 an Egyptian judge sentenced 21 people to death for their role in the stadium riots the previous year.
Shortly after the sentencing in Egypt's worst stadium disaster, protests erupted outside the prison in the northeastern port city.
Clashes outside Port Said prison left at least 20 civilians and two soldiers dead and dozens wounded, a hospital official told state television.
The armed forces sent troops to secure public buildings and restore calm in Port Said, according to state media.
The deadly clashes began after some relatives tried to storm the building to free their loved ones, General Osama Ismail, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told state television Nile TV.
Crowds outside the prison fired guns and threw stones at security forces, who in turn used tear gas to disperse the crowd, Ismail said.
Ghana, May 2001
A group of people look at the empty stadium in Accra after a stampede that killed more than 120 people in May 2001. Supporters of arch-rival Kumasi Ashanti Ashanti Kotoko began smashing seats at the Accra sports stadium, throwing them onto the pitch. In an attempt to quell the unrest, police fired rounds of tear gas into the stands where fans were rioting. (Credit: ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
At least 125 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in Ghana on May 10, 2001.
The tragedy occurred at the end of a match between rivals from the main league.
Many people were injured in the crush as some 70,000 spectators tried to leave the stadium as police fired tear gas at people who were smashing seats.
Before the stampede Accra Hearts of Oak was leading 2-1 against Assante Kotoko five minutes before the end of the game when Assante supporters began throwing bottles and chairs onto the field, witnesses said, according to an AP report.
Police then fired tear gas, creating panic in the stands as spectators ran to escape the gas, witnesses said.
At the time, it was the fourth football disaster in Africa in the past month.
South Africa, April 2001
Rescue services work around stampede victims on April 11, 2001 at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. 43 people were killed in the stampede, which occurred as a crowd tried to enter the packed stadium for a football game between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Orlando Pirates. (Credit: ALEXANDER JOE/AFP via Getty Images)
At least 43 people were killed in a soccer match between South Africa's top two teams in April 2001. The stampede began when a crowd tried to enter Ellis Park in Johannesburg to watch the game between the Kaizer Chiefs and the Pirates. of Orlando.
An eyewitness to the events, Michael Mcmullan, told CNN that the stampede began when soccer fans entered the stadium.
A South African Broadcasting Corporation live feed from the stadium showed bodies strewn in and around the stadium.
Earlier, police had fired tear gas at people stampeding outside the stadium.
Guatemala, October 1996
At least 82 people were killed and about 150 injured in a crash in Guatemala City just before a 1998 World Cup qualifying match between Guatemala and Costa Rica on Oct. 16, 1996, authorities said.
The accident occurred when an avalanche of fans knocked over seats and a flight of stairs in the stadium.
Many panicked spectators were trampled or suffocated in a general seating area of the stadium, witnesses said.
Guatemala and Costa Rica were about to start playing at the Mateo Flores National Stadium when the accident occurred.
The Hillsborough tragedy, April 1989
96 people died in April 1989 crushed in the semifinal of the English Cup of soccer.
96 men, women and children were killed in a stampede as they tried to exit the Hillsborough stadium gates in 1989.
That day was the English Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, at the Hillsborough Stadium, in the city of Sheffield.
On the day of the game, Superintendent David Duckenfield of the South Yorkshire Police was in charge of security for the semi-final.
Due to the overcrowding of the venue, Buckfield ordered Exit C of the stadium to be opened to relieve the crowd of fans trying to enter.
An additional 2,000 fans entered, but once inside there was no authority to tell them where to go.
All they saw was a tunnel that led to pens three and four, which were already completely full.
The bars trapped the fans from the front and from the sides.
And as hundreds more came to invade that area when the exit door opened, they were trapped in the back.
So they couldn't move.
They couldn't breathe.
The fans were crushed in a stampede.
Despite the fact that in 1990 the verdict of the investigation determined that the death of the 96 people had been accidental, a new report from 2012 delivered to the families turned the case around.
A new investigation was ordered and began on March 31, 2014. The results confirmed that it was a police error that caused the Hillsborough stadium tragedy almost 30 years ago.
Great Britain, May 1985
At least 56 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a fire broke out in the stands of Valley Parade Stadium in Bradford during a third division match against Lincoln City.
Belgium, May 1985
In Brussels, minutes before the match between Liverpool and Juventus, a tense situation arose among the fans, causing panic and confusion, leaving 36 people dead and more than 600 injured at the Heysel stadium in 1985.
35 years after Heysel, one of the great tragedies of football 0:42
Russia, October 1982
A stampede killed at least 66 fans as they left a UEFA Cup tie between Spartak Moscow and Dutch side HFC Haarlem at Moscow's Luzhniki stadium.
Officials in the former Soviet Union did not reveal the tragedy for years.
When they did, they gave an official death toll of 66, although the death toll could have been as high as 340.
-- With information from Reuters